The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s St...

Soccer leagues around the world use a promotion-and-relegation system to reward the best teams and punish the worst. We ask whether American sports fans would enjoy a similar system. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES:Domonique Foxworth, sports analyst and former N.F.L. pla ... Show More

The N.F.L. is a powerful cartel with imperial desires. College football is about to undergo a financial reckoning. So maybe they should team up? (Part one of a two-part series.) SOURCES:DeMaurice Smith, former executive director of the National Football League Players Association ... Show More

In this episode we first published in 2021, the political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption — and that the U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit. SOURCES:Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of politic ... Show More

On many issues and examples, our politics have split our country into two very different Americas. How can we change? Is it possible for a third party to break through and unite the country again? 

In school, we learn things and then take a test to assess what we learned. In everyday life, we take the test then we learn things. In today's episode, we sat down and discussed about the differences in education systems. Let's be honest - many countries are outperforming the Uni ... Show More

Description: It is hard to know what culture is and how to define, but many people take the you-know-it-when-you-see-it kind of approach. The U.S. has often been accused of not having a culture, or its culture being very young and refined. There is a famous quote that serves as t ... Show More

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy in the United States was 79. Today it’s 76. When compared to other countries like the UK and Japan, where life expectancy is above 80, it’s clear that the U.S. has a lot of work to do. Today on The TED Interview, surgeon, writer, and ... Show More

Why do so many Americans say they’re satisfied with their own lives but upset about the way the country is going? Why don’t other countries experience the same gap? And what do horror movies have in common with Coca-Cola enemas? 

Countries are becoming more and more similar because people are able to buy the same products anywhere in the world. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?   similar->similarities   cultural loss  cultural diversity  diverse    clothing such as saris and dhotis ... Show More

C'est une musique incontournable aux États-Unis, en particulier dans les États du Sud. Est-ce une musique exclusivement destinée à l'Amérique blanche conservatrice ? Que signifie-t-elle dans la culture américaine ? D'où vient-elle ? Il y a des titres qui font clairement partie du ... Show More

Are we predisposed by our personality to be drawn to certain political policies or certain ideologies? And if so, should we take account of this when our views differ from other people? James Tilley, a professor of politics at Oxford University, talks to leading academics in the ... Show More

As an election approaches in America, we return to a unique experiment which took the temperature of the USA after the surprise election of Donald Trump. In 2016 the BBC World Service, in association with American Public Media, focused on areas which the media had neglected – but ... Show More