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The ICE hiring boom
Feb 25, 2026Live event info and tickets here. ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost? Also, the Trump administration has plans to pour billions of...
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
Feb 21, 2026Live event info and tickets here. The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal. On today’s show: Why were those tariffs st...
How to get what Greenland has, with permission
Feb 18, 2026Book tour and ticket info here. Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell Greenland. And at a security conference in Munich over the weekend, U.S. lawmakers s...
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
Feb 13, 2026Book tour event details and ticket info here. An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, journalism from the world of competitive spreadsheeting, a controversial piece of US currency. Each...
The Invention Invention
Feb 11, 2026Book tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to f...
Iran, protests, and sanctions
Feb 07, 2026Book tour tickets and details here. The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this time – they are also motivated by economic hardship. Hardship cau...
Riding with the repo man (update)
Feb 04, 2026Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated...
Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
Jan 31, 2026Book tour dates and ticket info here. Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about it plays well with voters. And now – in a midterm election year – President Dona...
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
Jan 28, 2026In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the program went further than just improving public housi...
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
Jan 24, 2026Book tour dates and ticket info here. Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the people willing to risk everything for what they believe. Pastor Dave Hodges just ...