Episode summary: As students go back to school, colleges and universities across the country are preparing for the continuation of protests against the Israel-Hamas war—and claims by other students that the protests are violating their own civil rights. Institutions and courts are now weighing the q...

Episode summary: The Raineys On The Road

Episode summary: As storms get more extreme and unpredictable, insurance companies are running the numbers on Florida and realizing that the math just isn’t working anymore.

Episode summary: Donald Trump wants new tariffs on goods coming into the US, describing them as a tax on other countries. The Democrats are no stranger to trade tariffs themselves, with Joe Biden having added them to numerous goods coming into the US from China.We talk to Erica York from the Tax Fou...

Episode summary: A science writer so prolific he can’t even name all his books

Episode summary: In the first of two episodes looking at responses to capitalism’s failings, we explore reforms aimed at making the current economic system more humane, fair, effective, and sustainable. By John Biewen with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with Lutz Schwenke, Jordi Llatje i Espinal,...

Episode summary: Joel Whitney’s book Finks is a seminal book about American intellectuals and American security agencies, mainly because it illuminates the real story behind the CIA’s involvement with the founding of a little magazine called The Paris Review which hit the scene in the early 1950s at...

Episode summary: One of America’s best living historians spills the tea on the early American Republic.

Episode summary: The Automators share some of their favorite tricks for creating, editing, and working with text.

Episode summary: What’s the connection between former President Donald Trump’s attacks on the so-called “Deep State” and a tiny silvery fish? The Supreme Court, of course.