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  • Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side
    Jul 3 2026
    How do residents of the South Side of Chicago feel about their new neighbor: the Obama Presidential Center? A mixture of pride and excitement, tempered with some concerns about what it could do to housing affordability. On today’s show, we’re bringing you an episode from our friends at Code Switch on the new center and its relationship to the historically Black neighborhoods around it.

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    35 min
  • Does the new Fed chair care about jobs?
    Jul 2 2026
    Last month, new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh presided over his first interest rate decision and press conference … but he didn't talk much about maximum employment.

    How much does Kevin Warsh care about the jobs side of the Fed’s dual mandate?

    Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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    — Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices?

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    9 min
  • Why Trump wants to rip up his own trade deal
    Jul 1 2026
    During President Donald Trump’s first term, he touted the USMCA as the largest and most fair trade deal ever achieved. So why is he now talking about ‘terminating’ it?

    Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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    — Are Trump’s trade deals the real deal?

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    10 min
  • What Iran teaches us about why wars start
    Jun 30 2026
    If war is so costly, why do we keep fighting them? We dig into the wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza to understand the incentives that lead countries into violence. Today on the show, the five factors that lead to war.

    Chris Blattman’s book is Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.

    Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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    — The new economic arms race

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    10 min
  • What you should know about your student loans
    Jun 29 2026
    For many of the 43 million Americans with federal student loans, July 1 is a day to mark on the calendar. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is introducing stricter borrowing caps and new repayment plans. Today on the show, we talk with NPR’s Education Reporter Cory Turner about the impact.

    Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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    — Will new loan limits lower the cost of grad school?

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    9 min
  • GLP-1 and women, the AI office boom, and RTO: CEO ego?
    Jun 26 2026
    It’s Indicators of the Week (now on YouTube!).

    On today’s episode: The effect of GLP-1s on women and the workplace; NYC’s once flailing office space is BACK; your boss asking you to come back to the office miiiight be a narcissist.

    Fact checking by Emma Ferrara and Corey Bridges.

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    —Why GLP-1s aren't lowering employers' costs

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    9 min
  • AI is pumping out books. Are they any good?
    Jun 25 2026
    Are all these AI books any good? And by good, we mean are people willing to buy them — not whether the prose is singing. We talk to two researchers who’ve got some answers and a travel guide expert on why AI can’t replace first-hand experience.

    Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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    — Human certification in the age of AI slop

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    9 min
  • How stock options made him an overnight millionaire
    Jun 24 2026
    In 2019, Juan Hernandez was laid off from SpaceX. Luckily, he still had the opportunity to buy $50K - $60K of the company’s stock and, years later, it’s safe to say the risk was worth it. Today on the show, how stock options built California as a tech hub.

    Fact-checking by Emma Ferrara.

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    — Do traders who make big bets make big money?

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    10 min