Solutions with Henry Blodget

  • Business Insider Embraced AI. How’s It Going?

    Business Insider recently told its reporters they could use AI to write first drafts of their stories. It was a notable decision by editor-in-chief Jamie Heller, and made BI one of the first mainstream media…


  • How Can American Politics Recover from Trump?

    John Harris, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Politico, is a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist. In this episode, we appeal to his optimism and ask how the US can recover from its current politics of…


  • It’s Time for Medicare for All

    In the 1990s, Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler did something her colleagues at Harvard called “crazy:” she decided to work with a senator named Bernie Sanders on healthcare reform. Dr. Woolhandler had already founded an advocacy group…


  • Kids Should Have a Driver’s License Before a Smartphone

    Have smartphones destroyed a generation? That was the title of a viral essay by Dr. Jean Twenge in The Atlantic in 2017, which first catapulted her work into the spotlight. For years before The Anxious…


  • The New Digg Wants to Bring Back a Peaceful Internet

    Roughly 20 years ago, Digg was known as the homepage of the internet. The social and news platform was so big that Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit, referred to it as “the enemy.” But…


  • You Can (And Should) Change Your Personality

    Certain personality traits can determine how happy you are, sometimes more than income and IQ. That’s according to author and journalist Olga Khazan. Hoping to shed some of her more neurotic personality traits, Khazan recently…


  • The U.S. Needs a Democracy Movement

    Anne Applebaum is an award-winning historian and journalist who studies democracy and dictatorship. Her latest book, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, explores how autocracies are working together to undermine democracy…


  • How Mark Cuban Wants to Fix Healthcare

    Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has set out to fix the broken U.S. healthcare system, and he’s starting with drug prices. In 2022, Cuban launched the online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs, which aims to sell generic…


  • How to Worry Less & Find Meaning with Happiness Expert Arthur Brooks

    Arthur Brooks has spent years studying the exact components of a happy life. And now, the bestselling author and Harvard professor has collected his top findings into a new book: The Happiness Files. This week,…


  • How to Actually Be Healthier

    Dr. Jessica Knurick is a rare kind of academic: she’s also very good at social media, and has recently gone viral for her criticisms of the MAHA movement. A registered dietitian with a PhD in…


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