Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown's Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week's news.
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05/17/24 - A galactic implosion of incompetence
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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 h…
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04/11/24 - Light banter and philosophical malaise
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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: What Truth Social going public means for Donald Trump’s finances How Trump is navigati…
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02/29/2024 - Let’s close up shop and go home
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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: Democrats' and pundits' concern over the growing realization that President Biden is o…
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01/31/2024 - The Taylor Swift Marshall Plan
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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: Trump’s domination of the GOP primary, and what the MAGA-ficaiton of the GOP means for…
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12/21/2023 - Mark and Carrie dare you to say “everything is great” right now
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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: Trump potentially gets removed from the GOP primary ballot in Colorado, and the risks …
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11/17/2023 - Is the world worse because of Mark and Carrie?
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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: The state of the Israel-Hamas War, and its geopolitical and economic implications Disc…
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09/11/2023 - Allegedly: A Mark and Carrie end-of -summer triple feature
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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: Grading Mark and Carrie’s Supreme Court predictions A disturbingly warm summer for all…
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06/01/2023 - Rogue AI, predicting the Supremes, and debt-ceiling dumbskullery: Mark and Carrie go all-in for summer
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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: The US debt ceiling deal: nobody won, and it was all based on a deep ignorance of how …
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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: Biden, Trump, and the upcoming “remaquel” to the 2020 election Fox settles with Domini…
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04/07/2023 - Would banning Tik Tok spare us watching both Trump and Paltrow trials? If so, Mark and Carrie are on board.
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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: What Trump’s indictment says about the state of American politics DeSantis’ cruel (and…
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03/08/2023 - Dominion, DeSantis, Demented
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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: Dominion Voting Machine’s lawsuit against Fox shows off the network’s underside, which…
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01/24/2023 - Mars Is Lovely in the Summer
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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: Is there any way to reduce mass shootings in the US? ‘Atmospheric rivers’ and Californ…
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12/19/2022 - Carrie and Mark Predict the Future
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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 …
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11/30/2022 - It's Not Fraud...Until It Is
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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 an…
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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 …
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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 doin…
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08/19/2022 - Far Too Clever and Overthinking It
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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 politi…
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07/29/2022 - No Normal Summers Ever Again
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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 wave…
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06/04/2022 - We Promise Not to Talk About Margaret Atwood at Davos
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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 m…
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05/05/2022 - Despite the Despair, It Was Great Seeing You
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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 fo…
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03/28/2022 - The 1970s: Good for Movies, Bad for Inflation
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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 1970…
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02/18/2022 - We Can’t Even Remember if We Have Done This Already
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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 C…
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01/22/2022 - Happy New Year: Mainly Stressful and Painful
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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 Mue…
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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 K…
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12/03/2021 - Is the Economy Really in the Tank, or is David Lynch to Blame?
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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: what we know about the Omnicron variant; the politics behind the Supreme Court's current abortion rights case; Peng Shuai, …
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