Make Congressmen Share a District

Alex Mayyasi of NPR's Planet Money joins me to explore some of the stranger forces shaping the economy. Why did the federal government create a legally mandated raisin cartel? Why are so many American corporations technically from Delaware? Should companies exist solely to make m ... Show More

Are we racing toward an AI-powered golden age—or building something we won't be able to control? Justin Robert Young joins to explore the emerging philosophical divide over artificial intelligence: accelerate innovation and reap potentially enormous benefits, or slow down before ... Show More

Dr. Steve Fuller of Warwick University says the meaningful split in society is not Leftwing vs. Rightwing, but rather Upwing vs. Downwing. Both have radically different attitudes to both risk and human nature, which informs their policy decisions and the direction they want to st ... Show More

Host Reed Galen is joined by Jeff Timmer (Lincoln Project Senior Advisor) and David Daley (Author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy and Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy) to discuss all things redistricting, ... Show More

We talk a lot on this show about the problems with American political institutions. But what if all those problems are actually just one problem: the two-party system. Lee Drutman is a political scientist, senior fellow in the Political Reform program at New America, co-host of ... Show More

<p>Has democracy unraveled in America?  And if so, what can leaders on both sides of the aisle do to save it? Former Secretary of Transportation and 2020 Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg joins Trevor and Eugene in this wide-ranging discussion.</p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecas ... Show More

Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at the New Yorker, joins Jon Stewart to discuss his book "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" and how varying political dynamics halt the progress of immigration reform in the United States. Then, Harvard University professor Steven Levitsky, co-author of ... Show More

The Democrat talks about the election vibe shift and what a Kamala Harris win would mean for both parties. 

<p>CPF Director Bob Shrum joins Democratic political icon James Carville and former White House Chief of Staff and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for a Common Ground Committee discussion on the 2022 midterm election results and the state of our democracy. T ... Show More

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate and author Beto O’Rourke discusses how the extremism in Texas is reflective of a broken democracy and immigration system, why there’s a need for solutions to the immigration issue rather than reactive stunts, and how dialogue across all po ... Show More

The Arizona lawmaker diagnoses what he thinks needs to change in the way his party communicates with men, Latinos and Trump voters. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nyti ... Show More