Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why?
For a long time, the story about the world’s population was that it was growing too quickly. There were going to be too many humans, not enough resources, and that spelled disaster. But now the script...
19 Mar 20241h
What a Second Biden Term Would Look Like
President Biden gave a raucous State of the Union speech last Thursday, offering his pitch for why he should be president for a second term. It’s the clearest picture we have yet of Biden’s campaign m...
12 Mar 20241h 1min
How America’s Two Abortion Realities Are Clashing
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it scrambled the landscape of abortion access in America, including in ways that one might not entirely expect. Many conservative states made the procedu...
8 Mar 202457min
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Beauty, Human Evil and the Idea of Israel
Marilynne Robinson is one of the great living novelists. She has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Humanities Medal, and Barack Obama took time out of his presidency to interview her at length. Her ...
5 Mar 20241h 2min
The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America’s Policy Hasn’t.
Joe Biden’s presidency has been dominated by two foreign policy crises: the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The funding the United States has provided in those wars — billions to both Ukraine and Israel — h...
1 Mar 20241h 3min
Your Questions on Open Conventions, a Gaza Schism and Biden’s Chances
We received thousands of questions in response to last week’s audio essay arguing that Democrats should consider choosing a candidate at August’s D.N.C. convention. Among them: Is there any chance Joe...
23 Feb 202451min
Here’s How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work
Last week on the show, I argued that the Democrats should pick their nominee at the Democratic National Convention in August.It’s an idea that sounds novel but is really old-fashioned. This is how mos...
21 Feb 20241h 2min
Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden
Biden is faltering and Democrats have no plan B. There is another path to winning in 2024 — and I think they should take it. But it would require them to embrace an old-fashioned approach to winning a...
16 Feb 202425min
