The laws of the office revisitedLive event info and tickets here. If something is going wrong in your workplace, there’s probably a law that explains why. M […]

Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problemWhat do we want from sports? The very best athletes competing as hard as they know how, putting all their effort and […]

The Business of Heated RivalryHeated Rivalry, the steamy hockey romance show, was made for about $2 million per episode.  That is remarkably cheap for an […]

Don’t hate the replicator, hate the gameThe world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. […]

The ICE hiring boomLive event info and tickets here ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost?  Also, […]

The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump’s tariffs. Now what?Live event info and tickets here. The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that […]

How to get what Greenland has, with permissionBook tour and ticket info here. Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell G […]

Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 ValentinesBook tour event details and ticket info here. An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, […]

The Invention InventionBook tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and […]

Iran, protests, and sanctionsBook tour tickets and details here. The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this […]

Riding with the repo man (update)Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here.  A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their […]

Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?Book tour dates and ticket info here. Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about […]

Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced […]

A trip to the magic mushroom megachurchBook tour dates and ticket info here. Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the p […]

BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The […]

Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of PlentyVenezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most fam […]

How much money President Trump and his family have madeBefore President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorke […]

So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher a […]

How Black hair care grew Black powerThe Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro S […]

Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike a […]