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 and go, yet paralysis and polarization remains in Washington 
• Trump is back, eating dinner with a Nazi, hoping the Murdochs don’t care. 
• Biden contemplates a second term in office, and the US contemplates a Biden/Trump rematch
• FTX’s collapse in the context of history’s great frauds
• Protests in Beijing and the limits of ‘Zero Covid’

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