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638. Are You Ready for the Elder Swell?
What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Update)
637. What It’s Like to Be Middle-Aged (in the Middle Ages)
636. Why Aren’t We Having More Babies?
An Economics Lesson from a Talking Pencil (Update)
635. Can a Museum Be the Conscience of a Nation?
634. “Fault-Finder Is a Minimum-Wage Job”
633. The Most Powerful People You’ve Never Heard Of
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death (Update)
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update)
632. When Did We All Start Watching Documentaries?
631. Will "3 Summers of Lincoln" Make It to Broadway?
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
628. Sludge, Part 2: Is Government the Problem, or the Solution?
627. Sludge, Part 1: The World Is Drowning in It
Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Update)
626. Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System
625. The Biden Policy That Trump Hasn’t Touched
EXTRA: The Downside of Disgust (Update)
624. The Animal No One Loves, Until They Do
623. Can New York City Win Its War on Rats?
The Show That Never Happened
622. Why Does Everyone Hate Rats?
621. Is Professional Licensing a Racket?
When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?
620. Why Don’t Running Backs Get Paid Anymore?
619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)
618. Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis?
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?
Highway Signs and Prison Labor
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)
Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think
616. How to Make Something from Nothing
615. Is Ozempic as Magical as It Sounds?
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)
614. Is the U.S. Sleeping on Threats from Russia and China?
613. Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard.
612. Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset?
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse (Update)
611. Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next
610. Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?
609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?
Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)
608. Cannabis Is Booming, So Why Isn’t Anyone Getting Rich?
607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?
606. How to Predict the Presidency
Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)
605. What Do People Do All Day?
EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)
604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)
603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)
EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)
602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?
601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?
What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)
EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth It
The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)
What Exactly Is College For? (Update)
EXTRA: Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Update)
600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”
599. The World's Most Valuable Unused Resource
EXTRA: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Update)
598. Is Overconsolidation a Threat to Democracy?
597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?
EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)
596. Farewell to a Generational Talent
595. Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President?
594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?
593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living
EXTRA: The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World’s Most Exclusive Nightclub
592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway
591. Signs of Progress, One Year at a Time
EXTRA: The Opioid Tragedy — How We Got Here
590. Can $55 Billion End the Opioid Epidemic?
589. Why Has the Opioid Crisis Lasted So Long?
Extra: Car Colors & Storage Units
588. Confessions of a Black Conservative
Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?
586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)
585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing
How to Pave the Road to Hell
Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?
583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?
Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?
581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration
Extra: Madeleine Albright’s Warning on Immigration
580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System
579. Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap?
Extra: What Is Sportswashing — and Does It Work? (Update)
578. Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think