Trump scores big wins by taking cheap shots at experts. Now, some worry he could try to oust Fed Chairman... more

For much of the 20th century, few economists studied inequality. Today, it's one of the most popular topics there is.... more

We're on break this week as everyone gears up for, and puzzles through, the results of this week's US election.... more

Clinton's Third Way Democrats moved the party away from the unionized industrial labour that typically made up its base. Today,... more

We tell the story of the invention of the modern economy, or at least the idea of the economy. It starts with... more

In our finale, while the fisherman and fisherwoman of Prince William Sound hope for legal damages stemming from the Exxon... more

A jury of ordinary Alaskans picks up the Exxon Valdez story. They muddle through the most devastating, and most complicated,... more

After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had to be punished. However,... more

Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would... more

This week, we're taking a little break before continuing our latest season, the Rationality Wars. This week, we're playing one... more

A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a... more

The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement... more

Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea... more

The Rationality Wars tells stories about the political and intellectual battles to define rationality and irrationality. Behind every definition of rationality,... more

Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it... more

Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer... more

At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to.... more

On a daily basis, we are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals. This is no accident; it is by design.... more

Medical experts are rushing to see which drugs might help treat COVID-19. There are dozens of candidates: Remdesivir, Hydroxycloroquin, Actemra,... more

The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up.... more