Do we need to build God to cure cancer?
AI companies keep promising it will cure cancer. But what does that actually mean — and would an AI capable of doing it be one we'd want to live alongside? Jerusalem Demsas and Kelsey Piper debated th...
4 Jun 58min
Why is crime falling everywhere?
America is on track for its lowest homicide year since 1900, but nobody seems to be celebrating. Matt Yglesias and Jerusalem Demsas debate why crime has dropped so dramatically and what caused the pan...
28 Mai 53min
Why Democrats and Republicans want you to pay $50,000 for a car
This week on The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias debate the tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Jerusalem argues that Americans should have access to cheaper, climate-friendly cars, ...
21 Mai 57min
Did Joe Biden really kill Spirit Airlines?
Spirit Airlines is dead and the right, true to form, is blaming Joe Biden. The immediate cause of Spirit's demise is pretty clear: the war with Iran spiked jet fuel costs, and the already-battered air...
14 Mai 1h 8min
Boy moms and Nazi POWs: how "The Feminine Mystique" changed feminism
Betty Friedan thought Korean POWs were dying in captivity because their mothers were housewives. She thought boy moms were making their sons gay. She wrote a whole chapter comparing suburban kitchens ...
7 Mai 1h 5min
Should we end asylum?
Matthew Yglesias wants to end asylum. On a new episode of The Argument, Matt argues that the post-WWII asylum framework is not just politically untenable but practically unworkable. Jerusalem Demsas, ...
30 Apr 1h 12min
Can America still be a force for good?
For the past century, America's foreign interventions often carried the pretense of liberal idealism – to help bring peace and prosperity to people around the world. But it doesn't take a history scho...
23 Apr 1h 2min
Destroy the internet to save it?
People tend to defend online anonymity by pointing to the long tradition of anonymous speech in American democracy.But modern anonymity is an entirely new beast. Should we ban anonymity on the interne...
16 Apr 56min
