Podcast Episodes

Can We Trust Election Prediction Markets?

With the US midterms fast approaching, voters and the media are increasingly looking to a new forecasting tool: prediction markets.

The leading platf…

1 week, 5 days ago

How India’s Cockroach Party Became a Political Force

Weeks of student-led protests forced the resignation of India’s education minister, in a rare public setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

On tod…

1 week, 6 days ago

Trump Rebuilds His Tariff Wall, Brick by Brick

As President Trump paused strikes on Iran over the weekend, he ratcheted up pressure on another front: his renewed trade war.

On Friday, the US presi…

2 weeks ago

Weekend Listen: Can the US Actually Tax Billionaires?

As wealth becomes increasingly concentrated — and artificial intelligence threatens to shift even more income from workers to investors — has the US …

2 weeks, 1 day ago

One Weird Trick to Get Your Credit Card Charge Reversed? Fraud.

American consumers disputed nearly 30% more credit card transactions in 2025 than they did just four years earlier. Some of those “chargebacks” are l…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Almost $1 Billion Later, the US Still Can’t Manufacture Medical Gloves

After the pandemic-era run on medical gloves, the US government set a plan in motion to reshore manufacturing. Roughly six years and almost $1 billio…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

The Trump Insiders Who Shaped Crypto Law

How did Tether — the largest stablecoin issuer in the world — go from fighting stablecoin regulation to supporting the Genius Act? That’s the subject…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Chasing the Ancient Stolen Statues of Cambodia

When a 1,000-year-old Cambodian statue came up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York, it sparked off an investigation that uncovered one of the world’…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Polymarket and Kalshi Grapple With A New Class of Insider Trader

From celebrity wedding details to the timing of military strikes, prediction markets have opened the door to gambling on almost anything. They’ve als…

3 weeks ago

Weekend Listen: Tucker Carlson on How Trump Failed America

Tucker Carlson was one of Donald Trump’s most prominent allies when he campaigned for re-election and through his first year back in the White House.…

3 weeks, 1 day ago