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Last weekend we were all thrown for a loop when President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris for the nomination. Just ...

In 2022, artist Stuart Semple opened up his laptop to find that all his designs had turned black overnight. All the colors, across files on Adobe products like ...

Who has the power? Workers or bosses? It changes through the ages, though it’s usually the bosses. Today, we look at two key moments when the power of ...

4.5 million households in the U.S. have solar panels on their homes. Most of those customers are happy with it – their electricity bills have just about ...

Planet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origins of our economic way of life. Today we ask surprisingly ...

We often hear that air travel is worse than it’s ever been. Gone are the days when airplanes touted piano bars and meat carving stations — or even free ...

At the core of most of the electronics we use today are some very tiny, very powerful chips. Semiconductor chips. And they are mighty: they help power our ...

We wade into the heated debate over immigrants’ impact on the labor market. When the number of workers in a city increases, does that take away jobs from ...

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2019.) In 1794, George Washington decided to raise money for the federal government by taxing the rich. He ...

When the vape brand Juul first hit the market back in 2015, e-cigarettes were in a kind of regulatory limbo. At the time, the rules that governed tobacco ...

We’ve lived amongst Elon Musk headlines for so long now that it’s easy to forget just how much he sounds like a sci-fi character. He runs a space ...

There’s a behind the scenes industry that helps big brands decide questions like: How big should a bag of chips be? What’s the right size for a ...

Graphite is sort of the one-hit wonder of minerals. And that hit? Pencils. Everyone loves to talk about pencils when it comes to graphite. If graphite were to ...

Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national debt. A major concern is how the debt you add now could slow ...

For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You had to get a cow, ...

There is a constant arms race between law enforcement and criminals, especially when it comes to technology. For years, law enforcement has been frustrated ...

We are living in a kind of golden age for online fraudsters. As the number of apps and services for storing and sending money has exploded – so too have the ...

On today’s episode, we ride through the streets of San Francisco with a long-time junkman, Jon Rolston. Jon has spent the last two decades clearing out ...

By one estimate, 40 percent of American workers get laid off at least once in their careers. And when that happens, companies will often say, “It’s ...