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The American Economy: Coasting on Fumes but Built to Last: A conversation with Noah Smith
Despite global chaos, America’s economy shows puzzling resilience in the face of emerging capital flight, dangerous policy uncertainty, and spiraling…
10 months, 1 week ago
Zero Sum: How Putin Turned Capitalism into Russian Roulette
Episode 677
When the Soviet Union collapsed, it wasn't the end of history—it was the beginning of capitalism's most seductive experiment.
Russia became a Wild E…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Demonstrations, Deportations, and Downtown LA"
Gustavo Arellano is a longtime Los Angeles Times columnist and chronicler of the Latino community. In my recent California Sun podcast he brings his …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Zero Sum: How Putin Turned Capitalism into Russian Roulette
When the Soviet Union collapsed, it wasn't the end of history—it was the beginning of capitalism's most seductive experiment.
Russia became a Wild Ea…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The China Paradox That Will Define the 21st Century
On this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast I talk with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, historian and author of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Auto…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Hollywood: when art, commerce, and family once danced together
Matthew Specktor, joins me on this California Sun podcast to discuss his new memoir “The Golden Hour.” He offers us a unique perspective on Hollywoo…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance
Episode 676
When we stop thinking, we enable harm. In this WhoWhatWhy podcast Elizabeth Minnich warns us that systemic evils don’t need monsters — “it takes all…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Human Cost of Migration
My guest, journalist Jeanne Carstensen uses one devastating 2015 shipwreck to illuminate the global refugee crisis affecting over 100 million displac…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
When Thinking Stops, Evil Spreads: The Danger in Our Everyday Compliance
When we stop thinking, we enable harm. In this WhoWhatWhy podcast Elizabeth Minnich warns us that systemic evils don’t need monsters — “it takes all …
11 months ago
Dismantling the Global Order That America Created
A former NATO ambassador shows how Trump has shattered 80 years of global trust in just 120 days, forcing allies to act without America for the first…
11 months ago