Throughline

The billionaires' utopia blueprint | Throughline

I can perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of the nation.

Fresh Air

Inside Linda McMahon's effort to dismantle the Dept. of Education

Even Vince has acknowledged that he really enjoyed playing this character because in many ways this character was true to real life. In real life, he was philandering. He had many affairs. He was ruthless, sometimes contractually, with his wrestlers.

TED

A Cheat Sheet for Canceling Coal | Kimiko Hirata | TED

Civil society in Japan is often considered small and powerless. But even as a small group, what seems impossible is not necessarily impossible.

Code Switch

Hate it or love it, is DEI a distraction?

Anti-racism, especially in 2020, around the George Floyd protests, became so palatable to corporations and, you know, wealthy individuals and philanthropic institutions and other institutions and individuals in these massive positions of power is because they saw that it was a way to call for change in a way that would ultimately protect their own interests.

EconTalk

Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)

Smith's sobering warning that when a society admires wealth and power for their own sake, it breeds servility and undermines freedom.

Hidden Brain

How to Change the World

Does power truly flow from the barrel of a gun? Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true?

Fresh Air

Have we been reading Toni Morrison all wrong?

You can spend all your time trying to prove that we are humans, that we had a civilization, that we have art, that we have culture. But it's a distraction because there's always going to be one more thing. And actually, the problem is not us. The problem is the racist who has no other way of feeling full, no other way of having integrity other than putting someone else down.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

What To Do In The Most Uncertain Market In Years | Prof G Markets

The 0.1% have their own transportation. They don't give a shit about 4-hour TSA lines. They have their own police forces. They live in buildings in neighborhoods that are of incredible security. They have their own health care. So what is their vested interest?

China Decode

China Walks a DANGEROUS Line as Iran War Escalates | China Decode

China is still a highly transactional power. It doesn't have allies with the exception of one and that is North Korea. It has a formal treaty with North Korea signed in 1961. But aside from that, China has no treaty obligation to go in and protect and defend any other country were that country to be attacked.

Semafor

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the NFL's Streaming Push, Iran Coverage, and Media M&A

In the media space, I would say the biggest northstar that we have is we're trying to effectively constrain the power of the large national programmers while empowering local TV stations.

Semafor

'Lobbyists Weren't Created in 2025,' Says DOJ Antitrust Chief

Lobbyists weren't created in 2025. They've been around for a long time. Um, and I think when you're I think the position, I don't speak for Andrew, but the position we try to take is we'll meet with anybody. If you want to come and discuss your matter, deal on the criminal side, whatever it is, we'll always give you an audience, but that doesn't entitle you to anything and certainly not entitled to outcomes.

Throughline

How Saudi Arabia shaped Silicon Valley | Throughline

Billions of Saudi dollars were already reshaping the US economy. And now many of those tech companies are vulnerable as Iran targets their infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries in the ongoing war.

TED

What Makes an Idea Stick? | Singapore | TED Idea Search

Having conversations around money takes the power away from the people up top and gives it back to us.

China Decode

Apple Doubles Down on China as Trump Blinks | China Decode

China has captured America's most famous company. It's an extraordinary realization that Apple is worth about 3.7 trillion US dollars on the stock market, but it isn't really the company's shareholders that actually call the shots, at least not in China. In China, it's the Chinese government that calls the shots.

Throughline

The Ojibwe Nation

Because of this persistent migration pattern over a long period of time, if someone got too bossy or even just got too much influence, someone else was usually moving down the river and saying, "They're not my chief." So, Ojibwe culture tended to be very tolerant of cultural variation, but very intolerant of being told what to do.

It's Been a Minute

Meet the billionaires who control your media | It's Been a Minute

If you have the same folks owning two of the six largest television news properties

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We admire dimes and Aasif Mandvi gives breakup advice | WWDTM

It turns out we are allowed to have women on currency as long as the woman is imaginary.

Book of the Day

Daisy Hernández argues 'Citizenship' has never been a fixed legal status

Citizenship was a private story, one women told in the dark where faces could not be seen

Mixed Signals

Gavin Newsom on 'Sick' FCC Threats, David Ellison, & Getting Trump's Personal Cell Phone Number

It's not what is said now, it's not it's what's not said. It's what's not reported and it's happening.

Pivot

Is Apple's Budget Laptop Brand Suicide? | Pivot

If you look at history, there's as much danger of an autocrat coming from the far left as from the far right. I believe the far left is as dangerous as the far right. It's the extremes that present a threat to society.

Throughline

The confederates who left the USA | Throughline

So they left the US in search of another slave society where they could continue their way of life with white supremacy as the social order and slavery as the economic system.

Fresh Air

Could the Iran war lead to WWIII?

For a revolutionary regime whose political ideology is premised on martyrdom, the central question is whether these assassinations will ultimately extinguish the ideology or help revive it.

China Decode

Will China Decide the Future of the Persian Gulf? | China Decode

The Chinese are playing a long game in the Middle East, but also a long game around the world. So the China of today is far deeper in the Middle East, including the Gulf, including Iran, including Iraq. When Western companies are not so forthcoming to build things, the Chinese are always there to build things.

Code Switch

The Black civil rights leader who sued to be called “Miss” | Code Switch

It's about gender and race and a push for seemingly very, very small acknowledgement of womanhood or I guess I should say against a denial of womanhood. It was about the right for black women to be called miss and addressed as adults.

Prof G Markets

The $2 Trillion Risk Investors Can’t See | Prof G Markets

this is a regime that um is essentially a death cult and doesn't have the same motivations as a normal regime has. They view the death of their own people, the martyrdom of their people as a sign of their own sacredness and righteousness.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

The $2 Trillion Risk Investors Can’t See | Prof G Markets

I think people are probably just beginning to realize that this is not going to be a two-day affair. It should be a two-day affair because if if Iran was run by a normal government that had the interests of its own people at heart, they'd have surrendered 24 hours ago or 48 hours ago because there's there's no way that they can win.

Stripe

How Flock helped clear over 1 million crimes

We are the end, the beginning, and everything. Yes... Outside of the human putting handcuffs on.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation at work or at home.

The New York Times

How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women

The only reason you do this is if you were putting somebody else's needs first. We see again and again doctors in these files bending or breaking the rules of their profession. And often they treated Epstein as if he was the real client.

Hidden Brain

The Secret of Charisma

Charismatic leaders can inspire devotion and give people a powerful sense of meaning. They can also make us vulnerable.