"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"
What happens when the two biggest stories in the world—the Trump White House and the development of advanced artificial intelligence—collide? Well, nothing good, apparently. When contract negotiations...
9 Mars 1h 4min
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?
Donald Trump’s polling has continued to edge down week after week. And yet approval of the Democratic Party is still stuck near its all-time low, according to Gallup and other surveys. One interpreta...
6 Mars 42min
The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End
Dramatic regime change. Moderate regime evolution. A calamitous regional conflict. Or … no change at all. Today we consider how the Iran conflict might evolve following the killing of Supreme Leader K...
3 Mars 55min
How Metrics Make Us Miserable
The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make things better. But very often, I think they force ...
27 Feb 1h 3min
The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks
The GLP-1 drug revolution has taken the medicine world by storm. I’ve done several episodes on the science of GLP-1s. But we’ve never done an episode like this before, where we talk to one of the most...
24 Feb 1h 7min
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs. Now What?
Donald Trump suffered a huge blow Friday when the Supreme Court struck down the centerpiece of his economic policy: his vast system of tariffs. So, what happens now? Harvard’s Jason Furman explains th...
21 Feb 41min
The Media Theory That Explains “99% of Everything”
In the mid-20th century, a group of media and communications scholars proposed that the shift from spoken to written language—from orality to literacy—transformed our politics, our media, our social r...
17 Feb 1h 3min
"America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs"
In his epic cover story for The Atlantic this month, staff writer Josh Tyrangiel spoke to dozens of economists, workers, tech CEOs, and AI experts about the danger that artificial intelligence might p...
13 Feb 1h 6min
