Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTrump’s Trade War Is Like Nothing America’s Ever Seen
Season 4 Episode 21
Donald Trump's tariff plan has set global markets on fire. What are they for? What are they trying to accomplish?
Fresh off his black-out-rage session…
1 year, 3 months ago
Trump’s Plan to Smash the Global Economic Order
Season 4 Episode 20
Donald Trump's second term has been a breakneck whirlwind: tariffs announced, tariffs unannounced, tariffs reannounced, allies threatened, and global…
1 year, 3 months ago
Plain History: The Gilded Age
Season 4 Episode 19
Corruption. Class wars. Technological splendor. The dawn of a new age of business and government. Rockefeller and Carnegie. The Gilded Age in America…
1 year, 3 months ago
ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein
Season 4 Episode 18
Donald Trump is serving up a scarcity agenda to America. He and the White House say we don’t have an economy that works, so we might just need to acc…
1 year, 4 months ago
How Gen Z Sees the World
Season 4 Episode 17
Generation Z, which was born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, has a unique economic, political, and cultural identity. In the 2024 electio…
1 year, 4 months ago
Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer?
Season 4 Episode 16
Cancer is not a singular disease but a category of hundreds, even thousands, of rare diseases with different molecular signatures and genetic roots. …
1 year, 4 months ago
How AI Could Change the Future of Music
Season 4 Episode 15
Artificial intelligence tools for musicians are getting eerily good, very fast. Their work can be maddening, funny, ethically dubious, and downright …
1 year, 4 months ago
The End of Reading
Season 4 Episode 14
Something alarming is happening with reading in America. Leisure reading by some accounts has declined by about 50 percent this century. Literacy sco…
1 year, 4 months ago
'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live)
Season 4 Episode 13
If you had to describe the U.S. economy at the moment, I think you could do worse than the word stuck.
The labor market is stuck. The low unemployment…
1 year, 4 months ago
Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk
Season 4 Episode 12
Who is the most successful president in American history? George Washington secured American independence. Abraham Lincoln preserved the union and en…
1 year, 5 months ago