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594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?

2024-06-27 • 43min

593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living

2024-06-20 • 49min

EXTRA: The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World’s Most Exclusive Nightclub

2024-06-17 • 44min

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594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?

593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living

EXTRA: The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World’s Most Exclusive Nightclub

592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway

591. Signs of Progress, One Year at a Time

EXTRA: The Opioid Tragedy — How We Got Here

590. Can $55 Billion End the Opioid Epidemic?

589. Why Has the Opioid Crisis Lasted So Long?

Extra: Car Colors & Storage Units

588. Confessions of a Black Conservative

587. Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?

586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?

Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)

585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing

584. How to Pave the Road to Hell

Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)

Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Update)

583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?

Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?

582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?

581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration

Extra: Madeleine Albright’s Warning on Immigration

580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System

579. Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap?

Extra: What Is Sportswashing — and Does It Work? (Update)

578. Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think

Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)

Extra: Mr. Feynman Takes a Trip — But Doesn’t Fall

The Vanishing Mr. Feynman

The Brilliant Mr. Feynman

How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Update)

The Curious Mr. Feynman

574. “A Low Moment in Higher Education”

5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Replay)

573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?

572. Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?

571. Greeting Cards, Pizza Boxes, and Personal Injury Lawyers

570. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?

569. Do You Need Closure?

568. Why Are People So Mad at Michael Lewis?

567. Do the Police Have a Management Problem?

513. Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update)

566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?

Extra: Jason Kelce Hates to Lose

565. Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy?

480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy? (Replay)

564. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency

563. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit

562. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death

561. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events