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ORIGINALS 

• How to Feed a Nation (1/25/2023) 
• How We Broke Science (1/11/2023) 
• Is Free Trade Worth the Cost? (12/14/2022) 
• Ben Franklin: The Original American (11/30/2022) 
• Batteries Not Included: The Challenges of a Low-Carbon Future (11/16/2022) 
• Slacktivist Investing: How Corporate Activism Goes Wrong (11/2/2022) 
• 3 Election Day Myths (10/19/22) 
• Brain Gain: How High-Skilled Immigration Drives Innovation (10/5/22) 
• Going Viral: Is Social Media Making Us Sick? (9/21/22) 
• Superabundance: How Humans Hacked Nature (9/7/22) 
• Greener Than You Think: America’s Environmental Progress (8/10/22) 
• Is Space Exploration Worth It? (7/27/22) 
• Bombs Away: Do We Spend Too Much on the Military? (7/13/22) 
• Rich, But Broke: America’s Coming Debt Crisis (6/22/22) 
• Is America Exceptional? (6/8/22) 
• Taking Out the Trash: What We Get Wrong About Recycling (5/25/22) 
• Making the Grade: Is College Worth It? (5/11/22)  
• Clear Skies: The Revolutionary Change in Airplane Safety (4/27/22) 
• Pipe Dreams: How America Gets Energy (4/13/22) 
• Less Crime, By Design (3/29/22) 
• Food Fight: The Battle Over GMOs (3/15/22)   
• Apocalypse Sometime? The Risk of an Asteroid Strike (3/1/22) 
• How We Broke the Presidency (2/15/22)  
• Who’s Afraid of Nuclear Waste? (2/1/22) 
• Death by Paperwork: Why a Complex Government Is an Ineffective Government (1/19/22) 
• 2021, Misremembered (12/14/21) 
• America, in the Dark (12/1/21) 
• The Iron (Movie) Curtain: How the Chinese Government Conquered Hollywood (11/16/21) 
• Making Time: The Bizarre Story Behind Daylight Savings (11/2/21) 
• States of Confusion: Why Americans Don’t Understand Each Other (10/19/21) 
• The Prosperity Paradox (10/5/21) 
• America’s (Avoidable) Water Crisis (9/21/21) 
• The Fire Next Time: Why the West Keeps Burning (9/8/21) 
• What a Waste: The Truth About Plastics Pollution (8/10/21)  
• The Green Atom (7/27/21) 
• The Asylums on Our Streets (7/13/21) 
• The Education Miracle Everyone Hates (6/29/21) 
• This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Infrastructure (5/31/21) 
• How to Turn Around the Homelessness Crisis (5/18/21) 
• I Pay Dead People (5/4/21) 
• Want to Get Rich? Be Boring. (4/20/21) 
• How to Stop a Supervolcano (4/6/21) 
• The Upside of Crisis: How COVID Unleashed Innovation (3/25/21) 
• A Bright Idea on Crime (3/18/21) 
• Should We Get Rid of Cash? (3/9/21) 
• Why Is Housing So Expensive? (3/9/21) 
• Mining Our Way to Clean Energy (3/9/21) 

SHORTS 

• Strange Medicine: How American Health Care is Different Than the Rest of the World (1/18/2023) 
• 4 Common Myths About Food (1/4/2023) 
• The Best News You Missed in 2022 (12/28/2022) 
• An Economist’s Guide to Ruining Christmas (12/21/2022) 
• America’s Fastest (and Slowest) Growing States (12/7/2022) 
• Let’s Talk Turkey: The Truth About Thanksgiving Traditions (11/23/2022) 
• How the Internet Broke Homework (11/9/2022) 
• Weird Federalism: America’s Most Eccentric State Governments (10/26/2022) 
• Do Term Limits Work? (10/12/22) 
• The American Dream (Job): What the Country’s Children Want to be When They Grow Up (9/28/22)  
• The World’s Refugees, By the Numbers (9/14/22) 
• 5 Famous Stories from History … That Are Totally False (8/31/22) 
• One Nation, Holding a Leash: America’s Obsession with Pets (8/24/22) 
• On the Road Again: America’s Leading Tourist Destinations (8/17/22) 
• Up in Smoke: How Bureaucracy Makes Wildfires Worse (8/3/22) 
• 50 States of Taxes: Where Americans Pay the Most – and the Least (7/20/22) 
• Humanity’s Future in Space (7/6/22) 
• Immigration, by the Numbers (6/29/22) 
• Capitol-ism: Why The Location of Your State Government Matters (6/15/22) 
• One Nation, Totally Confused (6/1/22) 
• Reshaping a Nation: How Americans Changed Their Country’s Physical Landscape (5/18/22) 
• The Doctor Is Out: Fixing America’s Physician Shortage (5/4/22) 
• Supersized America: The Eye-Popping Numbers Behind Our Biggest Cities (4/20/22) 
• The Surprising Numbers Behind America’s Tax System (4/6/22) 
• 4 Things That Happened More Recently Than You Think (3/22/22) 
• How Technology – and the Pandemic – Transformed Tipping (3/8/22) 
• Medical Breakthroughs You May Have Missed (2/22/22) 
• How Buying a Car Became So Painful (2/8/22) 
• When the World (Almost) Ended (1/25/22) 
• America’s Fastest (and Slowest) Growing Cities (1/11/22) 
• Extreme America: The Country’s Wildest Places (1/4/22)  
• The Best News You Missed in 2021 (12/28/21) 
• Not-So-Silent Night: America’s Rowdy Christmas History (12/21/21) 
• An Economist’s Guide to Ruining Christmas (12/7/21) 
• Let’s Talk Turkey: The Truth About Thanksgiving Traditions (11/23/21) 
• Should Americans Worry About the National Debt? (11/9/21) 
• Class Dismissed: How COVID Changed Education (10/26/21) 
• 50 States of Electricity: Where America’s Power Comes From (10/12/21) 
• An Ocean of Possibilities (9/28/21) 
• Who Are the One Percent? (9/14/21) 
• Out of House and Home: The Invisible Tax That Makes Real Estate Unaffordable (8/31/21) 
• When Animals (Don’t) Attack (8/24/21) 
• Strong Medicine: The Cost of Prescription Drugs (8/17/21) 
• The Republic of Taxes (8/3/21) 
• When Do You Know If a Vaccine Is Safe? (7/20/21) 
• MSG: The Spicy History of the Scariest Seasoning (7/6/21) 
• America’s Accidental Health Care System (6/15/21) 
• Making Change: Do We Need Pennies? (6/8/21) 
• Education Around the World (5/25/21) 
• Fracking and the Future of the American West (5/11/21) 
• Are the SATs Discriminatory? (4/27/21) 
• A Pale Shade of Green: Electric Vehicles and the Climate (4/13/21) 
• America the…Empty? (3/30/21) 

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