The Hidden Costs of Cheap Meat
About 50 years ago, beef cost more than $7 a pound in today’s dollars. Today, despite high inflation, beef is down to about $4.80 a pound, and chicken is just around $1.80 a pound. But those low price...
29 Nov 20221h 21min
This Conversation About the 'Reading Mind' Is a Gift
Every day, we consume a mind-boggling amount of information. We scan online news articles, sift through text messages and emails, scroll through our social-media feeds — and that’s usually before we e...
22 Nov 20221h 9min
Bill McKibben on the Power That Could Save the Planet
The fight against climate change is at a crossroads.This past year, the climate movement in the United States achieved significant success. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act represents the s...
15 Nov 20221h 24min
I Don’t Quite Buy the DeSantis Narrative, and Other Midterm Thoughts
The results of Tuesday’s midterm elections are still trickling in, but the broader story is clear: The red wave that many anticipated never materialized. Republicans gained 54 House seats against Bill...
10 Nov 20221h 8min
George Saunders on the ‘Braindead Megaphone’ That Makes Our Politics So Awful
George Saunders is regarded as one of our greatest living fiction writers. He won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” and has published numerous short-story collections to wi...
8 Nov 20221h 2min
Inflation Does More Than Raise Prices. It Destroys Governments.
“One can usually pretend that there is a logic to the distribution of wealth — that behind a person’s prosperity lies some rational basis, whether it is that person’s hard work, skill and farsightedne...
4 Nov 20221h 9min
A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the Globe
As we approach the 2022 midterms, the outlook for American democracy doesn’t appear promising. An increasingly Trumpist, anti-democratic Republican Party is poised to take over at least one chamber of...
1 Nov 20221h 30min
These Political Scientists Surveyed 500,000 Voters. Here Are Their Unnerving Conclusions.
How does the popularity of a president’s policies impact his or her party’s electoral chances? Why have Latinos — and other voters of color — swung toward the Republican Party in recent years? How doe...
28 Okt 20221h 33min
