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Why NIMBYs Oppose Housing (with Chris Elmendorf)
NIMBYism is usually explained as selfishness: homeowners protecting property values, or neighbors who just hate change. But a growing body of researc…
3 months, 1 week ago
Matthew Yglesias on What Went Wrong with Modern Liberalism?
If we want to address racism, should we talk more about race – or less?
Matthew Yglesias argues liberals undermined their own principles when politic…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
We're Getting Frog-Boiled by AI (with Kelsey Piper)
A lot of Americans are uneasy about AI, and so are many of the people building it. Yet we keep scaling and deploying these systems faster than we’re…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Best Of: Liberalism Under Pressure w/ Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, & Derek Thompson
At the end of the year, I wanted to revisit our very first podcast conversation with some of my favorite liberal journalists.
In our very first live …
4 months ago
How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism
Why is far-right populism on the rise? Political scientist Gabriele Gratton has a controversial theory: For decades, technocrats moved policy decisio…
4 months, 1 week ago
America’s Reading Crisis: What Mississippi Got Right
America's literacy problem is a policy choice. As schools shifted away from phonics toward guessing-based instruction, a generation of kids paid the …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Why We Feel Screwed: Immigration, Growth, and the Zero-Sum Mindset
Why do so many people believe immigrants are screwing them even when the evidence says otherwise? Economist Sahil Chinoy joins host Jerusalem Demsas …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Is Inequality the Problem?
Rising income inequality hurts democracy, health, happiness, and basically anything you can think of … right?
Sociologist Lane Kenworthy doesn't thin…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Climate Movement’s Biggest Miscalculation (with Robinson Meyer)
Climate activists spent a decade arguing that if Democrats passed a huge climate bill, created green jobs, and centered “climate justice,” voters—esp…
5 months ago
How Silicon Valley Became MAGA-Curious
Silicon Valley’s sharp right turn didn’t come out of nowhere. Former tech worker and current tech writer Jasmine Sun walks us through how a once-soli…
5 months, 1 week ago