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Every subject the show has dug into, drawn from episode transcripts.

Housing

What Worries Me Most About 'Abundance'April 28, 2026

A Democrat Who Is Thinking DifferentlyFebruary 18, 2025

'We Have Created the Scarcity on Purpose'August 6, 2024

The Economic Theory That Explains Why Americans Are So MadJune 7, 2024

A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to BuildApril 16, 2024

What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in DecadesJuly 18, 2023

What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in DecadesJuly 18, 2023

Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in CaliforniaApril 28, 2023

Matthew Desmond on America’s Addiction to PovertyApril 21, 2023

Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue StatesJuly 19, 2022

Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue StatesJuly 19, 2022

The Stock Market Is Plummeting. Welcome to the End of the 'Everything Bubble.'June 17, 2022

A Critique of Government That Progressives — Myself Included — Need to HearFebruary 18, 2022

‘We’ve Become Too Complicated’: Where Eric Adams Thinks Democrats Went WrongOctober 1, 2021

My Reading Habits, Explained, and Other Questions You AskedAugust 31, 2021

How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously AffordableJuly 23, 2021

Elizabeth Warren on What We Get Wrong About InequalityMay 7, 2021

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