All Episodes

#248 A Seat for Three Powers, an Empty Chair for Ukraine — Can 'Peace' Exist Without the Party at War?

#247 Can We Hit Pause on AI? What 50 Cities of Protest Are Really Asking

#246 The Day the 'Gods of Vaccine Research' Got Raided — Who Is Science Actually For?

#245 "Slaves" in the Drone Factory — The State Sells Labor, Who's Buying?

#244 Where Does Freedom to Believe End? — 191 Deaths and a Prescription of State, Education, and Doubt

#243 The Lie Called "Clean Gold": Cracking Open a Trillion-Dollar Laundering Machine

#242 Who Owns the Satellites? When One Company Controls the Battlefield's Infrastructure

#241 Kitchen Chemistry: Homemade Synthetic Drugs and a Society Numbing Its Own Pain

#240 Protest or Plunder: The Line the Crowd Crossed

#239 Prices and Rage: What Is the French Street Actually Indicting?

#238 The Silenced Shelf: What States Ban and a Writer's Conscience

#237 Peace Bought in Blood: Is Caracas's "Calm" Order, or Just Another Crime?

#236 Who Decides What's "Against Nature"? Senegal's Mass Arrests and the State's Judgment on Morality

#235 Monarch in Orbit: Starlink and the Rise of Private Sovereignty

#234 "This Was Written by AI"—How Does an Accused Writer Prove Their Innocence?

#233 The Day You Train the Robot That Replaces You: GoPro Cameras on Indian Factory Floors

#232 Who Judges Explosives on the Seabed? The Nord Stream Trial and the Problem of 'Right Cause, Wrong Means'

#231 Tear Gas and 480,000 Angry Voices — Is the Street Teaching Us Something, or Just Burning?

#230 AI-Made "War": What Fake Videos Really Destroy

#229 Refugees as Bargaining Chips: Europe's Strange Handshake with the Taliban

#228 Does a Price Tag Go on Human Life? The Ethics of 'Danger Pay' in the Strait of Hormuz

#227 The Surrogacy Boom: Is the Power to Give Birth a Commodity?

#226 Erased from the Rolls: Crowds in Delhi and the Power to Decide Who Counts as a Citizen

#225 The Trial That Withholds a Vaccine: Thousands of Newborns, and the Price of Evidence

#224 The Nobel Peace Prize and International Law — Who Gets to Judge Justice?

#223 The State That Livestreams Execution: Is Punishment Meant to Be Watched?

#222 Fake Reporters, Made by AI: Who Gets to Judge the Truth?

#221 The Woman Who Couldn't Die Twice — Does the State Have the Right to Punish?

#220 Is There a 'Right to Die' for Mental Illness? Canada Indefinitely Freezes Euthanasia for Mental Illness Alone

#219 EU Enlargement Reform: Who Really Benefits When the Gate Opens?

#218 The Inmate Who Wouldn't Die ― Questioning the State's 'Etiquette' for Killing

#217 Drones Hunting Cartels — Is It "War" or Just "Market Forces"?

#216 Outsourcing the Border: Is Australia's Migration Model Right or Wrong?

#215 Can the Crime of Stealing Education Be Judged? — The ICC Issues Warrants for the Taliban's Education Ministers

#214 The Entire Newsroom, Detained — The Power to Call Someone a "Terrorist," and the Freedom to Write

#213 Is 'The Garden of Machines' the End of Humanity? AI Developers Who Walked Away

#212 The Classroom Broke, So They Took It to the Streets: What France's 5,000 Teen Arrests Ask Us About Who Schools Belong To

#211 Brazil's Knife-Edge Rematch: Inherited Rage and the Question of Where the Will of the People Goes

#210 Is Citizenship for Sale? Three Minds Dissect Argentina's 'Golden Passport'

#209 Is Citizenship for Sale? Judging Argentina's $350,000 Passport

#208 The Inmate Who Survived Two Lethal Injections — What Does It Mean for a State to Kill

#207 War Chest or Bread Basket? What Russia's 2027 Budget Reveals About a Nation's True Face

#206 Outsourcing the Border — Judging the EU's Five-Nation Plan for African Return Centers

#205 Can Fake News Take Down Democracy? — The Information War Targeting France's 2027 Election

#204 What the AI Told Us About Killing: Who Does the Liberation of Knowledge Protect?

#203 Can You Buy an Honor? The Legion of Honor Bribery Scandal and the Price of Prestige

#202 The Decision Not to Release: Who Gets to Set AI's Safety Bar?

#201 Why Was a Politician Who Spoke About Ebola Killed? The Danger of Communicating Science

#200 From President to Prime Minister: How to Change Chairs and Keep Your Power — Three Minds Dissect a Survival Trick

#199 "Blow Up the Boat If We Have To" — Justice at Sea and the Violence of the State

#198 Who Keeps Power in Check? The Unelected Guardian of the Law, Baharav-Miara

#197 Educated to Die: Do Schools Belong to the State or the Child?

#196 The 'Lake America' Affair: The Power to Rename, and the Reality AI Builds

#195 The Invisible Ceiling and the 'Order of the Household': A Three-Way Debate on Working Women in Korea

#194 Does Cash Set People Free? The Light and Shadow of Liberia's 'Couples' Budget Planning' Experiment

#193 Rogue AI Agents: Who's Accountable for 'Autonomy'?

#192 Whose Hands Are Really on the Reins? Unpacking the Australian Government Website Breach

#191 Who Does AI Belong To? Leviathan, the Scientist, and the Businessman Put Xi Jinping's National Strategy on Trial

#190 The Day the Press Pool Went Dark — Who Owns the Facts?

#189 Who Did Democracy Lose To? Germany's State Elections and the Double Surge of Far-Right and Far-Left

#187 No Social Media Under 15 — Protection, or Locking In 'Immaturity'?

#186 Ban Social Media for Under-15s? On Law, Virtue, and Whoever's Using Kids as an Excuse

#185 Who Gets to Call It a War Crime? The UN Report and the Absence of a Judge

#184 Who Gets to Call It a "War Crime"? 177 Dead in an Airstrike, a Crackdown, and Two Scales of Guilt

#183 The Day a Village 'Seceded' from the Nation: The Truth Behind the Refugee Housing Plan and the Referendum

#182 The Day a Village Voted to Leave the Country: Can a Referendum Claim Sovereignty?

#181 Who Holds the Kill Switch? Power, Ownership, and the Right to Stop AI

#180 Does AI Need a Kill Switch? Who Gets to Hold the Power to Stop It

#179 "We're All Going to Die" — Whose Fear Is It, Anyway?

#178 "We're All Going to Die If This Doesn't Slow Down" — Dissecting an AI Whistleblower Through Doubt, Power, and Desire

#177 The Warning That Came Three Years Early: Why Can States 'Know' and Still Fail to Prevent?

#176 The Warning Came Three Years Early — What Does 'Knowing' Actually Mean?

#175 Five Thousand Dollars for Everyone: Can Democracy Be Bought with Handouts?

#174 When AI Stops "Dangerous Knowledge": Who Writes the Index of Forbidden Books?

#173 Will AI Destroy Humanity? The '10 Percent' Problem and Who Holds the Leash

#172 Will AI Destroy Humanity? Unpacking the Truth Behind That '10%' Number

#171 AI-Generated Child Abuse Ads: What Exactly Is This Platform Profiting From?

#170 AI's Worst Ads: Who Gets to Judge the Platforms?

#169 Whose Hands Are on the Wheel? — Interrogating the Right to Speak of 'Control'

#168 Under Whose Hand? Three Minds Take Apart the Word 'Control'

#167 The Day the Far Right Becomes 'The Will of the People': Who Does Majority Rule Actually Protect?

#166 Redrawing the World Map: Who Gets to Decide the 'Right' Size?

#165 Whose Map Is It Anyway? Redrawing Africa to Its 'True Size', 164 to 1

#164 Does Birth Decide Citizenship? Birthright Citizenship, the Executive Order, and the Line the Courts Drew

#163 Gold Bars Don't Believe in Alliances: How 'Geopolitical Anxiety' Moves a Nation's Vault

#162 Why Japan Hesitates on AI: Wisdom or Stagnation?

#161 Is 'Colluding with Foreign Forces' a Crime? National Security vs. One Man's Freedom

#160 Call It "American Lake": Whoever Controls the Name, Controls What Exactly?

#159 Before You Cast the First Stone: The Galliano Show Cancellation and the Conditions for Forgiveness

#158 The War on Books: If You Kill a Culture, Does the Nation Disappear?

#157 The War on Books: What Remains from the Ashes of 12 Million Volumes?

#155 690+ Dead, 3,000+ Missing in the Landslide: Suspecting a Man-Made Disaster Wearing Nature's Face

#154 The Power to Rename: What Does 'Lake America' Actually Take Away?

#153 The Day AI Joined the Operating Table: The World's First Real-Time AI-Assisted Brain Surgery and the 'Signature of Responsibility'

#152 Who Gave the Order? What 1,200 Runaway AI Agents Reveal About Governance

#151 Should AI Songs Be Banned from the Charts? Who Gets to Call It 'Real'?

#150 Economic D-Day: Can Money Really Be a Weapon?

#149 Banning Social Media Under 16: Protection or Control? Hobbes, Descartes, and Marie Curie Weigh In

#148 Under-16 Social Media Ban: Is It Law That Protects Kids, or Learning — or Tearing Down Capital Itself?

#147 "Quiet!" — Who Decides Who Gets to Ask?