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Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: 2024 election update: Biden struggles to get his message to Americans, while Trump’s hush-money trial might be playing into his strength...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: What Truth Social going public means for Donald Trump’s finances How Trump is navigating the complex politics of abortion within the Rep...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Democrats' and pundits' concern over the growing realization that President Biden is old Why, despite Biden’s weaknesses and the tough m...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Trump’s domination of the GOP primary, and what the MAGA-ficaiton of the GOP means for 2024 The politics of Trump's legal troubles Makin...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Trump potentially gets removed from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado, and the risks of involving the courts in a presidential election...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: The state of the Israel-Hamas War, and its geopolitical and economic implications Discouraging polls for Biden, promising victories of D...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Grading Mark and Carrie’s Supreme Court predictions A disturbingly warm summer for all, and the financial repercussions of it being too...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: The US debt ceiling deal: nobody won, and it was all based on a deep ignorance of how the economy actually works DeSantis goes peak geek...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Biden, Trump, and the upcoming “remaquel” to the 2020 election Fox settles with Dominion, fires Tucker Carlson, and will be just fine Th...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: What Trump’s indictment says about the state of American politics  DeSantis’ cruel (and also a slightly boring) strategy for counte...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Dominion Voting Machine’s lawsuit against Fox shows off the network’s underside, which we all knew was there anyway.  Ron DeSantis...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Is there any way to reduce mass shootings in the US? ‘Atmospheric rivers’ and California’s weather woes The debt ceiling showdown in Con...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Unpacking the World Cup Finals on and off the field  Elon’s rough few weeks at the helm of Twitter SBF gets arrested in the Bahamas, and we all learn too much about his...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: The geopolitics of the World Cup, and why we’re all implicated in the spectacle's dark underbelly  Midterm elections come and go, yet paralysis and polarization remains...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Elon Musk buys Twitter. Will anything on the platform change? Musical chairs in UK politics; will Rishi Sunak’s term as MP outlast a head of lettuce? Xi Jinping further cons...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Queen Elizabeth is dead, and the UK press can’t stop mourning Britain’s economic dumpster fire Biden and the Democrats doing surprisingly well (but not well enough to keep C...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Unpacking the Inflation Reduction Act What this summer's good news for Democrats means for the midterms Liz Cheney's political future, and what it could mean for Democrats a...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: Finding nuance in the inflation/recession panic Could climate legislation actually be passed in the US Congress?! Heat waves in…well, everywhere A long goodbye for Boris Joh...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: The mass shooting in Uvalde, TX, and America’s mourning rituals around gun violence What the potential end of Roe v. Wade means for the US, and what it says about the Suprem...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: The political implications of the Supreme Court’s leaked decision overturning Roe v. Wade Bipartisan support in Congress for arming Ukraine, and what the next phase of this...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: The economic and political ramifications of the war in Ukraine Why presidents shouldn’t ad lib foreign policy What the 1970s can and can’t teach us about handling inflation...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode:  Making sense of Ukraine and questioning Putin’s motives (and height) Joe Rogan and the 'platform conundrum' Since when is Canada angry and weird? Carrie’s boycotting t...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: how to think about Covid in the age of omicron; Biden's stalled legislative agenda; is The January 6 commission the new Mueller Report?; finding hope for American democracy...

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Programs at Brown University, share their take on the news. On this episode: living through another pandemic wave; Joe Manchin reveals who he's been all along; union movies at Starbucks, a strike at Kellogg's, and the state of organized labor in the...