1963—Ernesto Miranda is arrested in Phoenix on charges of abduction and rape. His interrogation by police yields a written confession. His confession is admitted...
Teresa Carlson, founding president of the General Catalyst Institute, joins the show to talk about whether the tech industry can bridge its differences with the Pentagon on AI, if a drone "bubble" is forming in the economy, and how the military can drive innovation.
President Trump is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month.
Readers may be familiar with the humiliating saga of California’s bullet train project, which was successfully sold in 2008 as a project to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco via high-speed rail. Voters narrowly approved the plan on the same day Barack Obama was first elected president. Its total projected budget was approximately $33 billion, spanning […]
Congressional enactment of the most-favored nation drug pricing policy urged by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union message would gravely harm American innovation, competitiveness, and national security in the emerging pharmaceutical technology race with China by crippling the market incentive system that has reliably propelled U.S. global leadership in this vital sector for decades. […]
Proponents of legalized physician-assisted suicide often couch their arguments in the verbiage of pain and dignity. They say that people with terminal and agonizing conditions should be offered the option of “death with dignity” on their own terms. While there are counterpoints against this policy, free people tend to gravitate toward ideas that feature personal […]
“College is a scam,” the finance bros on Twitter will tell you. The Return on Investment is weak, hustle accounts proclaim. “It is very weird that we’re convinced that the only way to get educated is through an official institution when we can access information on our own,” popular podcaster Joe Rogan argues, saying that […]
One moment, you’re living your best life, shouting anti-racist platitudes into a bullhorn outside Gracie Mansion in your sensible coat, and the next, someone else living his best life climbs over you and throws a bomb at the police. This is what happened to Walter Masterson as he exercised his constitutional right to signal his […]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest outrage, with his wife Rama Duwaji, was hosting terrorist sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil for dinner at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence. Mamdani posted a picture of them breaking their Ramadan fast on the anniversary of Khalil’s detention by federal immigration officers. Khalil faces deportation for lying on his green […]
It’s an iconic line from the golden era of The Simpsons, but a new academic study shows there is a lot of truth to it. In season 3 episode 21 of The Simpsons, Krusty the Clown’s homicidal sidekick Sideshow Bob has been yet again released from prison, this time after proving to authorities he has […]
