What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Big Beautiful Debate

As the One Big Beautiful Bill bounced around Congress, one provision—the 10-year moratorium on states making laws to regulate artificial intelligence—fell out. But AI-fans don’t need to worry, there’s still plenty of industry support in the bill. 

Guest: Will Oremus, technology news analysis writer for the Washington Post.

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Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort.


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Audio Mises Wire - Methodological Individualism in Historical Analysis

Modern historians depend heavily upon sweeping narratives and their take on the US War of Secession is no exception. Yet, the use of methodological individualism allows one to avoid sweeping judgments like claiming the Confederacy was founded upon belief in white supremacy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/methodological-individualism-historical-analysis-0

Audio Mises Wire - Privacy and Fungibility: The Forgotten Virtues of Sound Money

Governments have so corrupted money that we forget that sound money, by providing both fungibility and privacy, has been a defense against overreaching governments. While sound money is in the interests of citizens, governments have managed to destroy it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/privacy-and-fungibility-forgotten-virtues-sound-money

More or Less: Behind the Stats - The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

How does economics help us understand conflicts through history?

That’s the question that economist and journalist Duncan Weldon tries to answer in his new book, Blood and Treasure.

Tim talks to Duncan about the economic perspective on Viking raiders, Spanish conquest and the Vietnam war.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon

What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun

Is anyone having fun on the internet anymore? Let’s all go touch grass.

Guest: Scaachi Koul, Slate senior writer and author of “It’s Time to Log Off.”

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Bonus: When the Internet Stopped Being Fun

Is anyone having fun on the internet anymore? Let’s all go touch grass.

Guest: Scaachi Koul, Slate senior writer and author of “It’s Time to Log Off.”

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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther.



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Audio Mises Wire - The American Revolution Was a Free-Trade Revolution

The British complained of unfair competition from goods supplied by the American colonists. So the state intervened to manage trade and make it “fair.” But the American revolutionaries saw protectionism for the scam it was, and still is.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-revolution-was-free-trade-revolution