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  • 53 minutes 46 seconds
    The Truth About Immigration and Wages

    Do higher levels of immigration lead to lower wages? The Atlantic staff writer Rogé Karma breaks down the misconception that immigration creates an economic burden—when actually the opposite is true: Immigrants are a source of economic growth.

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    5 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 58 minutes 42 seconds
    Can Corporate Greed Really Explain Inflation?

    Grocery store prices are up. Politicians have tried to pin it on supply-chain problems, price gouging, and corporate greed—or “greedflation.” But Ernie Tedeschi, a former chief economist of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, wonders if something else is going on. And it might just have to do with store-brand mac and cheese.

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    29 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 58 minutes 47 seconds
    Why Do Black People Vote for Democrats?

    How is party ideology formed? Is it based on political strategy to garner the most votes? Or is it based on ideas and beliefs? The Georgetown professor Hans Noel traces the shift from the Civil War to the civil-rights movement to understand how Democrats and Republicans seemingly flipped sides during the 20th century—and what that says about the parties today.

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    22 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 58 minutes 53 seconds
    The Quiet Trump-Harris Trade Agreement

    Are tariffs good? Or bad? And why do politicians love to talk about them so much? Scott Lincicome lays out the high costs of tariffs and who really bears the brunt.

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    15 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 48 minutes 46 seconds
    What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’?

    How does a nation pull its residents out of poverty and into the developed world? The researcher Oliver Kim looked into how Taiwan, and a few other East Asian countries, managed to rise from a poor nation to the ranks of the global elite in just a short amount of time.

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    8 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 50 minutes 58 seconds
    Would You Give Up Your Kidney for $50,000?

    Would you donate a kidney? Would you do it for $50,000? Vox’s Dylan Matthews gave his to a stranger. But it made him wonder: Shouldn’t he have been paid?

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    1 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 44 minutes 47 seconds
    Why Does Crime Go Up When School Starts?

    Crime peaks during the summer for adults. But the economist Ezra Karger found that the same can’t be said for kids: It peaks during the school year.

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    24 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 49 minutes 36 seconds
    How (Not) to Change Someone's Mind

    When do fact-checks work? And when do they backfire and cause someone to dig in? Yamil Velez, a political scientist at Columbia University, set up an experiment using chatbots and found that people can change their mind, even on deeply held beliefs. Except under one condition: when the chatbot is rude.

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    17 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 43 minutes 5 seconds
    The Wandering Officer

    Police rarely move between jobs and departments. But according to a paper co-authored by the University of Chicago law professor John Rappaport, officers aren’t necessarily choosing to stay in the same place—a lot of policies have made it costly for them to switch. And that lack of mobility can have all kinds of ripple effects.


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    10 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Who's Responsible for the Housing Crisis?

    Americans love local government. In a December 2023 Pew Research survey, 61 percent of respondents had a favorable view of their local government while 77 percent had an unfavorable view of the federal government. But behind this veneer of goodwill is a disturbing truth: Local government is driving a housing crisis that is raising rents, lowering economic mobility and productivity, and negatively impacting wages. 


    Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Atlantic deputy executive editor Yoni Appelbaum and Yale Law professor David Schleicher about how local government is fueling the housing crisis.


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    3 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 50 minutes 42 seconds
    How Slaves Used the Law

    There’s a traditional line of thinking about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal know-how or protection.


    But research from the UC Berkeley professor Dylan C. Penningroth (in his book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights) upends that narrative by tracing the overlooked history of how Black people used the law in everyday life: through rights of contract, property, marriage, and more—even under slavery and Jim Crow.


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    27 August 2024, 10:00 am
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