On the debut of Interrobang‽, Jillian C. York and Katherine Maher discuss the emerging power’s resistance to online surveillance. Plus: The U.S. shutdown’s effect on the security state.
Robert Shiller just won the Nobel Prize in economics. In this clip, recorded during the 2008 financial crisis, he describes a worst-case scenario for the economy.
When the World War II memorial shuts down, is the president just putting pressure on the Republicans? Steven Teles and Glenn Loury discuss. Plus: Why don’t economists read Marx anymore?
Corey Hutchins reports from South Carolina, where the former governor is now a congressman trying to navigate shutdown politics. Plus: Rep. Mark Meadows, the man behind the shutdown.
Alex Seitz-Wald argues to Kevin Glass that government reforms have created political dysfunction. Plus: Gaming out the debt ceiling scenarios.
Matt Lewis makes the case. Plus: What Oberlin’s co-ed showers tell us about the debt ceiling.
Do we contradict ourselves? Robert Wright talks to psychologist Robert Kurzban. Plus: The psychology of deciding not to eat chocolate.
Peter Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the elusive particle. In 2012, Lawrence Krauss spelled out what the Higgs is.
Matt Duss and Michael Singh consider. Plus: Iran’s internal political divide.
International law expert David Kaye is skeptical. Plus: Toward more humane war.