Episode list

S1.E1 ∙ Ezra, Matt and Sarah Try to Podcast

S1.E2 ∙ Would single payer health care work in America?

S1.E3 ∙ Arthur Brooks on think tanks, happiness, and management

S1.E4 ∙ Can the government trick you into dieting?

S1.E5 ∙ Want to fix inequality by taxing the rich? Good luck.

S1.E6 ∙ Are we counting poverty all wrong?

S1.E7 ∙ How politics is making us stupid

S1.E8 ∙ We know how to eliminate poverty. So why don't we?

S1.E9 ∙ Childbirth, retirement, and terror in between

S1.E10 ∙ Dietary fat and climate change

S1.E11 ∙ Why health premiums rise, and how partisans discriminate

S1.E12 ∙ Ezra interviews Ben Bernanke

S1.E13 ∙ Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters

S1.E14 ∙ Teen births are plummeting - and economists are judging your Christmas gifts

S1.E15 ∙ Immigration and the minimum wage - with an armed stand-off in between

S1.E16 ∙ Obama's Legacy, debating single payer, and Obamacare's jobs impact

S1.E17 ∙ Campaign finance and global inequality - with lead poisoning in between

S1.E18 ∙ Ross Douthat on campus conservatism, being thankful for Donald Trump, and how to write so liberals will read you

S1.E19 ∙ Will taxing the rich hurt growth - and will third parties save politics?

S1.E20 ∙ The Iowa Caucuses

S1.E21 ∙ Could more corruption fix American politics?

S1.E22 ∙ The Supreme Court vacancy and the possible collapse of American democracy

S1.E23 ∙ TPP, the Nevada Caucus, and the Great Texas Abortion clinic shutdown

S1.E24 ∙ Super Tuesday/Exhausted Wednesday special!

S1.E25 ∙ The productivity slowdown, TrumpCare, and better textbooks

S1.E26 ∙ Super(b) Tuesday special

S1.E27 ∙ Replacing No Child Left Behind, wonky March Madness, and Uber's productivity

S1.E28 ∙ A medical struggle to digitize, a tax calculator, and a paper that explains Trump

S1.E29 ∙ What the hell is going on with tax havens, explained

S1.E30 ∙ Why inequality matters, Trump's delegate problem, and the geography of life expectancy

S1.E31 ∙ Interview with Jason Furman

S1.E32 ∙ Our undemocratic primaries, Obama's new fiduciary rule, and the challenge of information polarization

S1.E33 ∙ Land value taxes, soda taxes, and carbon taxes - oh my!

S1.E34 ∙ Interview with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter

S1.E35 ∙ Trump is the Republican nominee. What happens next?

S1.E36 ∙ Competition in Obamacare marketplaces and how low-income housing can boost poor neighborhoods

S1.E37 ∙ 90s nostalgia, Obamacare lawsuits, and the truth about abortion

S1.E38 ∙ Health care innovation, did Dems rig the primary, and fetal stress

S1.E39 ∙ Accountable Care Organizations, more Swedish administrative data, and the big city recovery

S1.E40 ∙ 5uper Tue5day

S1.E41 ∙ Guns, Brexit, and Free Condoms

S1.E42 ∙ Welfare reform, SCOTUS deadlock, and health care jerk

S1.E43 ∙ Brexit 2, SCOTUS on abortion, and the missing male workers

S1.E44 ∙ Free College, Email Extravaganza, and the China Shock

S1.E45 ∙ Basic Income and Police Shootings

S1.E46 ∙ Republican Convention Special

S1.E47 ∙ DNC-Palooza

S1.E48 ∙ Trump's tax plan, democratic legitimacy, and the Freakonomics of decisionmaking

S1.E49 ∙ Think Tanks, Transition, and What Drives Trumpkins

S1.E50 ∙ Obamacare Update and Aging America