Podcast Episodes

What's the Beef with Screwworm?

After being eradicated in the United States in the ‘60s, screwworm is back—at a time when beef is even more in demand and the American herd is alread…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump’s B-Team

Why would Trump choose Bill Pulte to be the new acting Director of National Intelligence? Pulte may not have a background in national security, but s…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

Did DOGE Cause the Ebola Outbreak?

He’s treated Ebola; he’s had Ebola. Here’s what he thinks of the growing crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—and how America can and shoul…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

SchadenFriday: Is the Pope Girlbossing AI?

It’s a bit of an overstatement to say “the Pope came out as anti-A.I.” with last week’s encyclical—after all, Anthropic’s cofounder was there for the…

4 weeks ago

Gradu-AI-tion Day

It’s an awkward time to have a Department of Education that seems so disinterested in, uh, education. It’s leaving teachers to grapple with how to in…

4 weeks ago

Do the Dems Need More Graham Platners?

Graham Platner has a lot of things in his favor as he runs for a US Senate seat in Maine: it’s an off-election year, the president’s approval rating …

4 weeks, 1 day ago

The Hunger Strike at Delaney Hall

It’s city vs. state vs. the feds at Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, where prisoners have gone on a hunger strike to pr…

1 month ago

Concepts of an Iran Peace Plan

It’s the war that’s been won since it started; the ceasefire with ongoing strikes, and the peace deals that are done except for the points of disagre…

1 month ago

No Panic! at the DNC

Are the Dems in…array? Or at least, in less of a disarray than their opponents? 

Guest: Jonathan V. Last, editor at the Bulwark.

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1 month ago

Trump's Disney Shakedown

How the Trump administration has tried to put pressure on Disney for opinions expressed by Jimmy Kimmel and the hosts of The View—and how the Mouse i…

1 month ago