Broken: A Podcast on American Systems

Broken is a show about American systems: how they were built, how they function, and where they fail. Each episode features a leading scholar, practitioner, or policy expert who has spent years studying the structures shaping our daily lives. Together, we examine the architecture beneath housing, healthcare, labor markets, education, infrastructure, and more. These conversations are data-driven, unscripted, nonpartisan, and apolitical, an inquiry into how power, incentives, and institutions in America actually work, beyond headlines and ideology.