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Have you ever heard a commonly held belief or a fast-developing worldview and asked: Is that idea ri

Episodes

Total: 39

We’re often told that there’s “no room for politics at work,” and yet the workplace is one of the mo

Most gun deaths aren’t premeditated, so how can we stop gun violence before it happens? The Universi

Seven years after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on state-sanctioned sports betting, a more com

Government reform isn’t an exclusively partisan issue, so why does it seem to fall under the purview

Amid handwringing about AI’s effect on jobs, creativity, trust, and the environment, a new study sho

What makes someone a NIMBY? The prevailing theory suggests that people support or reject new housing

RFK Jr.'s 'Seeds of Truth'

2024/12/31

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to lead the Department of Health and Human Services under President-

Are young men becoming radicalized? Could they be further to the right than even their fathers and g

The key idea behind democracy is that if politicians pass good policy, people will reward them with

New Zealand was in a major housing crisis. But then the Pacific nation actually took ambitious steps

Four years ago, the murder of George Floyd—and the international protests that followed—amplified ca

Last year, nearly half of childless adults under 50 told the Pew Research Center that they didn’t wa

Was leaving behind our nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles a mistake? If so, why did so many differen

What exactly happened to the Kamala Harris campaign in this year’s presidential election? Host Jerus

What exactly happened to the Kamala Harris campaign in this year’s presidential election? Host Jerus

Do higher levels of immigration lead to lower wages? The Atlantic staff writer Rogé Karma breaks dow

Grocery store prices are up. Politicians have tried to pin it on supply-chain problems, price gougin

How is party ideology formed? Is it based on political strategy to garner the most votes? Or is it b

Are tariffs good? Or bad? And why do politicians love to talk about them so much? The economist Scot

How does a nation pull its residents out of poverty and into the developed world? The researcher Oli