Podcast Episodes

No kids on the block

The pro-natalism movement argues that people need to have more babies. Some want to prevent economic implosion, others want to protect traditional fa…

1 year, 2 months ago

The autocrat's prison

The US is deporting alleged members of the gang Trén de Aragua and paying El Salvador to house them in a mega-prison. But we don’t know if the deport…

1 year, 2 months ago

Silencing the Voice of America

President Donald Trump has ordered the federally funded broadcaster to be “eliminated.” Longtime VOA correspondent Steve Herman explains why it will …

1 year, 2 months ago

An America First trap

This isn’t the first time we’ve tried to go America First. The last time helped blow up the economy and our relationships with our allies.

This episod…

1 year, 2 months ago

Did diversity ever work ... at work?

There's a backlash against corporate DEI efforts, and it’s not just from the right. It's everywhere. What does that mean for employees?

This episode w…

1 year, 2 months ago

What if we stopped shopping?

Fed up with consumerism, Mia Westrap went a whole year without buying unnecessary stuff. She went viral, and so did her goal. Now, the Buy Nothing mo…

1 year, 2 months ago

The man who helped kill DEI

Policy in the second Trump administration is being driven by a small group of thinkers from the online right. We talk to one of them about how he got…

1 year, 2 months ago

Deporting Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration has fallen short of its promise to deport millions. The White House now seems focused on attention-grabbing arrests, includi…

1 year, 2 months ago

Teslump

Protests against Tesla embody the outrage against Elon Musk’s DOGE-e behavior. But Musk doesn't seem to care. And given his position in the federal g…

1 year, 2 months ago

A Walz to Remember

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down with Sean Rameswaram over the weekend at SXSW in Austin, Texas, to talk about 2024, 2025, and what might help his pa…

1 year, 2 months ago