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Your audio guide to everything you need to know about compelling and complex topics, from a variety of The Week's smart and witty writers, editors, and thinkers. Concise and entertaining, Se...
How’s that for a war on Christmas? For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts
Hear something odd in his syntax, you do. For more, go the TheWeek.com/podcasts
How previous reforms led to the system we have today. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts
The history and mystery of Asherah. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts.
The Macy's Day Parade, football, and Black Friday deals may be uniquely American, but giving thanks for a good harvest is a tradition that c...
The American West may fly the flag of individualism, but it was built on a bedrock of Big Government. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts
Even as other territories became states, the U.S. kept Puerto Rico's legal status vague. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts
How war, the golf industry, and Big Candy got (most of) us an extra hour of sleep this weekend. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts
From Night of the Living Dead to Paranormal Activity , low-budget horror movies continue to def Hollywood's box-office expectations. For a s...
Is Marxism just a turn-crank formula for purges and dictatorship or was something else to blame? For more, visit TheWeek.com/Podcasts
How the end of Matt LeBlanc's Episodes closes the door on the Friends era of gossip, fame, and meta-spinoffs. For more, visit TheWeek.com/Po...
A lifelong member of the NRA, Reagan might be the most consequential president for gun control legislation in the past century
Storms like Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, are only going to keep coming. Which parts of the U.S. are most vulnerable? What is the gove...
In 1971, a group of activists stole thousands of incriminating documents that proved the bureau was spying on Americans. The burglars got aw...
How a legislative fluke turned into a political weapon. Learn more at TheWeek.com/podcasts
When elected officials break the rules, this congressional tool puts them in check
Saving is a habit, and like all habits, the best way to make it stick is to do it over, and over, and over again, until it becomes second na...
Those daily pills aren't doing you any favors. In fact, they might be doing you some harm. Find more at TheWeek.com/Podcasts
On Aug. 21, the moon's shadow will roll across the U.S. and, for the first time in decades, tens of millions of Americans will witness a tot...
Amazon, Google, and Facebook have enjoyed unstoppable growth, with no end in sight. Such enormous success may be a sign that we're in the se...
The gene-editing tool CRISPR isn't some super high-tech piece of lab equipment. It's a part of our DNA that scientists have now figured out...
WHERE HULKSPEAK COME FROM? Let's explore all the potential inspiration that came before Hulk smashed into our comic book world in 1962.
A Hawaiian's tried-and-true advice for avoiding a shark attack
The Valyrian language has four genders — and an unexpected Monty Python tribute. Listen for more fun and interesting facts about this intric...
So how did Jensen become Johnson, Koenigsberger become Kingsley, and Mlodzianowski become Murphy?
You're more likely to die from a lightning strike than in an airplane crash, and yet we just can't seem to shake our aviophobia.
The People's Republic is investing trillions to build railways, ports, and telecommunications in other countries. Here's everything you need...
The simplest way to revolutionize the tax code? Just convert deductions to credits.
It seems the Trump administration is ready to take the toughest of lines when it comes to dealing with the Hermit Kingdom. And this policy i...
With scandals swirling around the White House, the "I-word" is already being mentioned in Congress. But what's the origin of the process and...
Watergate. Iran-Contra. Trump-Russia? History can provide scenarios for thinking about how this investigation might play out.
We combed through dozens of inspirational, funny, and memorable commencement speeches and found the best ones follow a surprisingly similar...
Whenever people listen to a beatboxing expert, there are two big questions that come up: What are those noises? And how are they being made?...
Their plan to stop Trump's immigration crackdown: Resist. Rebuff. Repeat.
After decades of dramatic successes — as well as failures — the Environmental Protection Agency is at a crossroads.
The origins of our modern battles over abortion date back to 1838 and the untimely death of a 21-year-old factory girl named Eliza Sowers
Many experts believe that sweetened foods have caused a global health crisis. What's so bad about sugar?
In 2014, bitcoin was all but written off as a failed experiment. In March 2017, it made history. And its recent, more gradual success sugges...
Kim Jong Un is building a nuclear missile that can reach the U.S. Can he be stopped?
He promised to reverse the decades-long decline of manufacturing jobs. Can it be done?
President Trump inherited several undeclared wars around the world. Will he change U.S. policy?
Not so easy, eh?
Stressed-out Americans, from war veterans to Google workers, are embracing mindfulness meditation. Does it really work?
HBO's documentary Bright Lights highlights the intimacy between the famous mother and daughter
Once they've relinquished the highest office in the land, many presidents enjoy rewarding second acts
A brief history of the space race then and a look at what rich entrepreneurs are to open a new frontier of privately funded space travel.
It was first invented by deaf players
Google and Facebook are the new railroads. And the media is a powerless farmer trying to get his vegetables to town.
The Constitution mandates only the day and the oath of office. The rest is dictated entirely by tradition.
What the presidential election tells us about the geeks' ascension in politics, business, and culture.