Podcast Episodes

From North Korea with Love

Kim Jong Un took a bulletproof train to visit Vladimir Putin in Russia this week. Jenny Town at the Stimson Center explains how the two leaders have …

2 years, 5 months ago

New variant just dropped

Seems like everyone’s got Covid again. Vox’s in-house epidemiologist, Dr. Keren Landman, delivers the good news and the bad news about Pirola.

This ep…

2 years, 5 months ago

In Google we antitrust

Google is headed to court over allegations its search engine violates federal antitrust law. The Verge’s Adi Robertson breaks down the case, and Davi…

2 years, 5 months ago

Hunter becomes the hunted

Hunter Biden is set to be indicted this month. The WSJ’s Aruna Viswanatha goes over the evidence with us, and Politico’s Jonathan Lemire looks at wha…

2 years, 6 months ago

Blame Capitalism: Souring on the system

Capitalism has entered its villain era. In a new series running Fridays this month, we look at how Americans came to blame it for just about everythi…

2 years, 6 months ago

From Pac-12 to Pac-2

The Pac-12 college football conference has lost nearly all its teams now that schools like USC and Colorado have announced they’re leaving for rival …

2 years, 6 months ago

Why American sunscreen sucks

Better sunscreen exists, you just can’t get it in the US. Amanda Mull and Elise Hu explain why.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, edited by Mir…

2 years, 6 months ago

The new Cold War

The Cold War started earlier than we think — and maybe never ended at all. Historian Calder Walton says understanding the US-Soviet conflict prepares…

2 years, 6 months ago

…We’re trusting it anyway

Tech companies are racing to make new, transformative AI tools, with little to no safeguards in place. This is the second episode of “The Black Box,”…

2 years, 6 months ago

We don’t know how AI works…

The researchers who create and study tech like ChatGPT don’t understand exactly how it’s doing what it does. This is the first episode of “The Black …

2 years, 6 months ago