Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But presidents have been […]

605. What Do People Do All Day?Sixty percent of the jobs that Americans do today didn’t exist in 1940. What happens as our labor becomes more technical and less p […]

605. What Do People Do All Day?Sixty percent of the jobs that Americans do today didn’t exist in 1940. What happens as our labor becomes more technical and less p […]

EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)His research on police brutality and school incentives won him acclaim, but also enemies. He was […]

EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)His research on police brutality and school incentives won him acclaim, but also enemies. He was […]

604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)What happened when the Rooney Rule made its way from pro football to corporate America? Some progress, some […]

604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)What happened when the Rooney Rule made its way from pro football to corporate America? Some progress, some […]

603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)The biggest sports league in history had a problem: While most of its players were Black, almost none of its head […]

603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)The biggest sports league in history had a problem: While most of its players were Black, almost none of its head […]

EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that t […]

EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that t […]

602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of the […]

602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of the […]

601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?Only a tiny number of “supertaskers” are capable of doing two things at once. The rest of us are just making ourselves miserable, and less productive. How can we put the — hang on a sec […]

What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)Educators and economists tell us all the reasons college enrollment has been dropping, […]

What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)Educators and economists tell us all the reasons college enrollment has been dropping, […]

EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth ItStephen Dubner appears as a guest on Fail Better, a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories about failure, and ponder the lessons that success could never […]

EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth ItStephen Dubner appears as a guest on Fail Better, a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories about failure, and ponder the lessons that success could never […]

The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series fro […]

What Exactly Is College For? (Update)We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, […]