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December 2025

Is Venezuela the Return of Regime Change? with Michael Brendan Dougherty
How Washington’s pressure campaign fits into a larger pattern of uncertainty in current U.S. policy
 • Oren Cass and Michael Brendan Dougherty
45:29
The Next Foreign Misadventure
Trump’s pressure campaign against Maduro has failed on its own terms. Why do we want more of it?
 • Michael Brendan Dougherty
You Can’t Spell 'Defense Industrial Base' Without 'Industrial Base'
And more from this week…
 • Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi
Policing Monopolies with Gail Slater
How the New Right is rethinking antitrust after decades of libertarian influence and market consolidation
 • Oren Cass
38:15
The Drug Price Delusion
Big Pharma can develop new drugs without gouging Americans.
 • Michael Lind
How Health Care Became a Financialized Hellhole
Instead of insuring families, we treat them like junk bonds.
 • Oren Cass
The Housing Burden of Unchecked Immigration
Canada offers a lesson on how decades of importing unlimited cheap labor has inflamed the housing crisis.
 • Peter Copeland
Economists Shouldn’t Play Word Games
And more from this week…
 • Oren Cass and Daniel Kishi
A New Global Trade Order with Mark DiPlacido
Why 2025 marked a turning point for U.S. trade policy and what a post-WTO future may look like for America and its allies.
 • Oren Cass and Mark A. DiPlacido
44:47
On Trade, China Isn’t as Strong as It Looks
U.S. tariffs are undermining China’s export machine.
 • Nicholas Phillips
Ownership of the Means of Thinking
Life in the Cloud is no life at all.
 • Matthew B. Crawford
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