09/24/2021 - Where's America's Head?

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown's Annenberg Institute, share their take on the news.On this episode: the newest Texas abortion law, and how it looks to the rest of the world; Biden's trip to the UN that no one watched; Republicans remember they hate debt in the face of Democrat's infrastructure bill; the multilayered crisis happening at the US-Mexico border; the Fed tries to please both America and the whole world, with mixed results; the Rorschach test that is the Evergrande crash; the US and UK get into a fight with France over submarines that won't be built until after we're all dead; Having trouble sleeping? Follow the German election. You can learn about the Watson Institute's full podcast network here.