Matthew Yglesias on What Went Wrong with Modern Liberalism?
If we want to address racism, should we talk more about race – or less?Matthew Yglesias argues liberals undermined their own principles when politics shifted from judging people as individuals to sort...
12 Jan 1h 23min
We're Getting Frog-Boiled by AI (with Kelsey Piper)
A lot of Americans are uneasy about AI, and so are many of the people building it. Yet we keep scaling and deploying these systems faster than we’re building rules to govern them. Why? The Argument's...
6 Jan 1h 8min
Best Of: Liberalism Under Pressure w/ Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, & Derek Thompson
At the end of the year, I wanted to revisit our very first podcast conversation with some of my favorite liberal journalists. In our very first live show in Washington, D.C., Derek Thompson, Ezra Klei...
29 Des 20251h 34min
How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism
Why is far-right populism on the rise? Political scientist Gabriele Gratton has a controversial theory: For decades, technocrats moved policy decisions — on austerity, climate, and more – away from th...
22 Des 20251h 18min
America’s Reading Crisis: What Mississippi Got Right
America's literacy problem is a policy choice. As schools shifted away from phonics toward guessing-based instruction, a generation of kids paid the price. But a quiet reversal is underway in an unexp...
15 Des 20251h 22min
Why We Feel Screwed: Immigration, Growth, and the Zero-Sum Mindset
Why do so many people believe immigrants are screwing them even when the evidence says otherwise? Economist Sahil Chinoy joins host Jerusalem Demsas to break down his massive 20,000-person study on ze...
8 Des 202551min
Is Inequality the Problem?
Rising income inequality hurts democracy, health, happiness, and basically anything you can think of … right? Sociologist Lane Kenworthy doesn't think so. In his new book Is Inequality The Problem? Ke...
1 Des 202556min
The Climate Movement’s Biggest Miscalculation (with Robinson Meyer)
Climate activists spent a decade arguing that if Democrats passed a huge climate bill, created green jobs, and centered “climate justice,” voters—especially the young—would reward them.They got their ...
24 Nov 20251h 17min
