Quantifying Happiness In 2026
Unemployment is up. Two-thirds of Americans have recently struggled with the rising cost of groceries. And the President of the United States has occupied his time attempting to start a land war in Ve...
17 Dec 202519min
Trump Can't Stop Saying Biden
Trump has been president for 11 months, and during that time, former President Joe Biden has basically left the public eye. Yet as Trump's own presidency has deflated like an old soufflé, he's gotten ...
16 Dec 202520min
If Tariffs Are So Great, Why Are There So Many Exemptions?
President Donald Trump loves tariffs. But according to a new analysis from Politico, more than half of US imports right now are not subjected to them. To find out why, we spoke to Paroma Soni. She's a...
15 Dec 202525min
ICE Polices The American Dream
The Trump Administration has put billions of dollars into building an immigration superstructure meant to punish those who have done nothing wrong and intimidate everyone else – including legal immigr...
12 Dec 202522min
The GOP’s Plan For Your Healthcare
Monday is your deadline to pick an insurance plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplace – and there is still zero plan to ensure that the enhanced subsidies that make those premiums affordable – or, ...
11 Dec 202522min
Billionaires Brawl Over Warner Bros.
We’ve been talking about the Paramount Skydance/Warner Brothers Discovery/Netflix Billionaire Boys Club Spectacular for a few days now. But it’s really worth digging into the details to understand how...
10 Dec 202519min
The Vax Wars Are Here
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is likely to reverse its long-standing recommendation that all newborns be immunized against Hepatitis B. We spoke with Demetre Daskalakis, the former di...
9 Dec 202522min
Why Trump’s Got A Big AI Problem
The Trump Administration has gone all in on artificial intelligence. It doesn’t hurt that AI’s biggest backers also happen to run the biggest companies on earth. Oh, and they also happen to have donat...
8 Dec 202521min
