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Can we ever understand our dogs?

Dog people tend to be pretty confident they know what’s going on with their animals. When we put out a call on the Explain It to Me podcast for...

30.06.2025 10

Miles Bryan

What the rise of “buy now, pay later” services tells us about the economy

You’ve probably noticed it by now: You’re shopping online for some makeup or a new pair of running shoes or a water table for your toddler, and...

29.06.2025 10

Miles Bryan

Why Donald Trump soured on some of his own judges

Late last month, approximately 1 billion news cycles ago, an obscure federal court made President Donald Trump very, very mad. The US Court of...

13.06.2025 3

Miles Bryan

What happened to the bestselling young white man?

Every generation has a small group of young fiction writers who make it: They top bestseller lists, win prizes, and become household names. And for...

25.05.2025 10

Miles Bryan

Trump promised his tariffs would create jobs. They’re already destroying them.

Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley was once synonymous with America’s industrial might. The region was known for its booming manufacturing economy...

05.05.2025 3

Miles Bryan

This senator met with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. He tells us what he saw.

Since being deported to El Salvador last month, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has had very little contact with the outside world — something that Democratic...

24.04.2025 3

Miles Bryan

Hasan Piker on why the boys are all right (wing)

The boys are alt-right. At least that’s what polling and voting data suggests. Men under 25 were nearly 20 percent more likely to vote for Donald...

02.04.2025 40

Miles Bryan

Trump is making Europe great again

Cast your mind far, far back, to November of 2024. Trump had just been elected. Americans were divided and unsteady. But the stock market wasn’t: It...

31.03.2025 20

Miles Bryan

The Christian nationalist legal scholar behind Trump’s purges

There are a lot of main characters in the second Trump administration. Donald Trump himself, of course, but also Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and...

20.02.2025 3

Miles Bryan

How America went MAHA

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went before the Senate finance committee Wednesday to make his case that he should be confirmed as President Trump’s secretary...

30.01.2025 20

Miles Bryan

Can RFK Jr. remake school lunch?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a lot of controversial agenda items if he is confirmed as President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary:...

23.01.2025 4

Miles Bryan

Lyman Stone on America’s falling birth rate

I always knew I wanted to have children. And because all my jokes are terrible and I genuinely enjoy chatting about the weather, it just felt kinda...

13.01.2025 6