Episodes
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WSJ What’s News
States challenge AI therapy before federal rules arrive
The episode shows how lawmakers, companies, regulators, and users are negotiating safety, privacy, and accountability before standards for AI mental-health tools are settled.
Aug 23, 2026 · 19 min
Consider This from NPR
Trump accelerates the unraveling of global rules
The episode examines whether attacks on NATO, the United Nations, and U.S. commitments are weakening the institutions that have organized international cooperation.
Aug 23, 2026 · 9 min
Global News Podcast
Trade collapse exposes widening US–Canada rift
The episode connects a deteriorating North American relationship with questions about press independence, technological ambition, environmental risk, and the infrastructure of future space missions.
Aug 23, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
Personality science challenges the introvert label
The episode separates pandemic-era social rustiness from enduring traits and examines whether personality can change through deliberate practice.
Aug 23, 2026 · 28 min
Letters from an American
Graham’s gaffe exposes a Republican expertise gap
The episode connects one candidate’s national-security admission to broader questions about governing competence, Democratic opportunity, and public unease over the administration.
Aug 23, 2026 · 13 min
Global News Podcast
Eisenkot tests Netanyahu’s hold on Israeli politics
A potential challenger’s record, political platform, and wartime choices could reshape Israel’s leadership debate and its ties to Gaza, religious parties, democratic institutions, and the United States.
Aug 23, 2026 · 31 min
Up First from NPR
Palmyra’s thriving reef faces a new protection fight
Palmyra shows what strong conservation can restore, while proposed commercial fishing threatens to test how much protection these ecosystems need.
Aug 23, 2026 · 29 min
Pod Save America
Campaigns chase voters who rarely think about politics
Democrats’ digital problem is not simply spending less, but failing to understand where disengaged voters spend attention and how politics reaches them.
Aug 23, 2026 · 1h 19m
The Daily
The Savannah Bananas turn baseball into participatory theater
The Bananas show how sports can win new audiences through speed, spectacle and fan involvement while raising questions about competition’s emotional stakes.
Aug 23, 2026 · 41 min
Morning Wire
Pastor’s release exposes China’s pressure on independent churches
Ezra Jin’s imprisonment and unexpected exile show how religious communities, lawyers, and international diplomacy intersect in China’s crackdown on independent churches.
Aug 22, 2026 · 22 min
The President's Daily Brief
Iran pressure tests China as Ukraine’s air defenses thin
The episode links a potential U.S.-China confrontation over Iran’s oil lifeline to Ukraine’s worsening vulnerability against Russian missile attacks.
Aug 22, 2026 · 57 min
WSJ What’s News
Markets absorb a volatile week of falling stocks and rising oil
The episode connects market-wide stress with pressure on chip stocks, shifting retail demand, healthcare gains and renewed U.S. debt concerns.
Aug 22, 2026 · 6 min
The Matt Walsh Show
Matt Walsh challenges the cultural appeal of tattoos
The episode turns a politician’s personal style into a broader argument about body modification, regret, and why tattoos attract public attention.
Aug 22, 2026 · 15 min
Morning Wire
Trump’s succession test exposes the GOP’s 2028 fault lines
The debate over J.D. Vance’s early elevation raises a larger question about whether Trump’s coalition can survive without suppressing internal disagreement.
Aug 22, 2026 · 27 min
Consider This from NPR
Swing voters sour on Trump over economic insecurity
Their frustrations with prices, debt, and stalled upward mobility reveal why less-engaged voters can reshape elections and deepen distrust in politics.
Aug 22, 2026 · 10 min
Global News Podcast
Russian strike exposes Ukraine’s rescue-time vulnerability
The episode connects a deadly attack in Kryvyi Rih with wider pressures on Ukraine’s defences, global health systems, technology regulation, and public accountability.
Aug 22, 2026 · 32 min
Global News Podcast
AI reunites a family as communities turn resilience into action
The episode shows how technology, persistence and local initiatives can create connection, opportunity and practical change.
Aug 22, 2026 · 29 min
Today, Explained
MAGA faces a midterm test of electability
The episode examines whether Trump’s record, cultural appeal, and Republican messaging can overcome voter frustration over prices, foreign policy, scandals, and election denialism.
Aug 22, 2026 · 29 min
Letters from an American
The fight over public education is a fight over citizenship
Heather Cox Richardson links the suppression of Black education after Nat Turner’s rebellion to later battles over public schools, universities, and democratic participation.
Aug 22, 2026 · 15 min
The Daily
Priya Parker makes the case for better conflict
Avoiding disagreement can erode trust and conceal power problems, while deliberate conflict can clarify values and help relationships repair.
Aug 22, 2026 · 44 min
Up First from NPR
Debt hits $40 trillion as tariffs and power reshape Washington
The episode connects a record national debt and rising interest costs with trade conflict, presidential power, and the politics of federal spending.
Aug 22, 2026 · 17 min
Morning Wire
Debt hits $40 trillion as Swalwell faces FBI scrutiny
The episode connects a reported investigation into Eric Swalwell with the economic and political consequences of unchecked federal borrowing and fringe activism.
Aug 21, 2026 · 25 min
WSJ What’s News
Treasury sell-off exposes pressure from deficits and AI borrowing
Rising long-term Treasury yields can lift borrowing costs across the economy while revealing how fiscal demands, foreign appetite and AI investment are reshaping bond markets.
Aug 21, 2026 · 12 min
The President's Daily Brief
Iran braces for unrest as Russia strikes Kyiv
The episode connects Iran’s internal-security preparations with Russia’s deadly regional escalation and possible signals of future U.S. operations.
Aug 21, 2026 · 26 min