Episodes

The story of how an alternative theory of dentistry made its way from medicine's fringes to an audience of young men online.

Search Engine’s crack automotive team investigates.

The story of the first people who invented democracy, and what it did to them.

What if there was an event in the future, the outcome of which you couldn’t personally control, but it was still causing you anguish?

A year ago, we saw a stand-off between OpenAI's non-profit board and its leader, Sam Altman. Since then, the board has been reshuffled, Altman has consolidated power, and under his leadership, some strange things have happene...

We reveal the one weird trick some billionaires use to pay less in federal taxes than you do.

A rogue IRS contractor leaks the private tax returns of the country’s wealthiest citizens to a reporter.

This week, we're sharing an episode of a show we love, Death, Sex & Money.

This week we have for you ... not a whodunnit, but a what did I do?

The single issue that might decide the upcoming presidential election also happens to be: very confusing. Political economist Mark Blyth helps us understand: how inflation starts, how inflation is stopped, and shares his theo...

25 years ago, The Sopranos, the best television show ever created, premiered. This week, a new documentary called Wise Guy asks the question: how did a show considered so risky & uncommercial even get made? We’re interviewing...

If you care about animals, but don't want to stop eating them... what's the least you could do while doing the most good?

For years, the must-have phone for the discerning drug trafficker or hitman was a brand you may not have heard of: AN0M. Reporter Joseph Cox tells us the story of the AN0M phone, its sudden rise and shocking fall, and the sha...

We are in an eighty-eight day sprint to the Presidential election. How would you follow this story if you wanted to actually understand something, instead of, like me, just feeling very anxious several times a day? We talk to...

A trip to Greenland, a chance encounter with Coolio, and the end of the world.

An art heist in the crypto world plunges us headfirst into another mystery.

This week: Bitcoin.

A story about a strange auction for perhaps the most valuable piece of paper in America.

We travel to Germany to trace techno's history from Detroit to Berlin.

Two Americans embark on a quest: fly across an ocean to try to get into the most exclusive nightclub in the world – Berghain. A German techno palace where the line outside can last 8 hours, and the bouncers are merciless in t...

This week, we try to understand an experience that 74% of Americans routinely report having.

An internet breaking news story. As we told you last week, Google has begun offering AI-generated answers to search questions. But some answers, it turns out, are strange. Users were told, for instance, that glue was an appro...

Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI-generated summaries to you, instead ...

After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill.