Episode summary: How the Dormant Commerce Clause tries to stop states from passing laws that put an undue burden on interstate commerce. Plus, what’s going on with student debt relief: who filed a lawsuit against it and why.

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Episode summary: One of our heroes Barbara Ehrenreich passed away earlier this year. She was one of America’s best undercover journalists. We once spoke with her about her book Bright Sided, her journey into the heart of American darkness: the positive thinking industry. Also we hear from an ex clan...

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Episode summary: The Kingdom of Rye

Episode summary: There is a subset of real life superheroes who are more focused on things like picking up trash and taking on civic issues than catching criminals in alleys

Episode summary: Liev Schreiber on BlueCheck and Aid to Ukraine

Episode summary: Simon Støvring returns to talk about how much automation has changed and what his favourite new features are.

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Episode summary: On September 29, 1982, Adam Janus suddenly collapsed in his home outside of Chicago. He died within hours. Later that same day, in the same house, his brother also collapsed — then his sister-in-law. All three of them had been healthy. Nobody could figure out what was going on. Stac...

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Episode summary: And how to listen to a photograph.

Episode summary: From What’s Your Problem: Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the greatest changes in the history of life on Earth. Around 400 million years ago some of our ancestors, the fish, started to become a little more like humans. At the swampy margins between land and water, some fish were turning their fins int...

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