Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has announced she will be calling for a vote on Speaker Mike Johnson next week. Johnson is already the replacement of the first Speaker of the House ever ousted from his job, Kevin McCarthy. We explain why Johnson's job is actually safe, despite the narrow Republican majority in the House.

Protests that started at the University of Columbia in New York City have since spread across the nation. Police have been called in at many campuses. We explain why it's ok to involve the police in some circumstances, the problem with some of the discourse around the protests, and people's inability to be Vulcans.

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We take a look at the presidential race, including the spending of each campaign and new polls. Specifically, we see the Biden campaign spending a lot more money, Biden catching up to Trump in some polling, and we wonder whether Trump's downfall will be low turnout from his supporters.

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United Auto Workers won a huge battle to unionize a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee last week. This is a big f*cking deal, as it's the first plant by a foreign company to ever be unionized in the South, and the vote wasn't even close. Republican governors released a statement protesting against unionization of the plants, but it won't stop the UAW from rolling into other southern factories fighting for greater worker power.

Elections are a big deal in India, which is the largest democracy in the world. However, violence threatened polling stations in the state of Manipur over political classifications of groups that would grant different economic advantages. The violence has already killed dozens of people. We dove in to understand the situation.

In this episode, we delve into a podcast discussion centered around the recent FTC ruling by the Biden administration to ban non-compete agreements. Join us as we analyze the implications of this decision and its potential impact on the job market.

Students at Columbia University set up an encampment on one of the campus lawns. They're protesting the university being invested in companies that apparently are complicit with Israel's genocide of Gazans. We think they're being kind of ridiculous.

A $95 billion foreign aid package was passed in the House and Senate then signed by president Biden after stalling for months because of challenges Speaker of the House Mike Johnson faced from his far right flank. In the end, the bill passed the House with majority Democrat support, leaving Johnson on uneasy footing within his own party. We break down the implications of the package for Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as addition of a potential TikTok ban that forces the app to be sold within 9 to 12 months.

The IRS is reporting smaller tax refunds so far this year, mostly due to more effective tax collection earlier on. While it sucks to not get a refund all at once, it does mean that people were just keeping more of their money throughout the year. But if we don't like not having tax refunds, would it be cool if there was a baked-in government savings mechanism?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visited China this past weekend, where he advocated for fair treatment of German businesses, assured China's Chairman Xi Jinping of the EU's commitment to open trade, and delicately addresses concerns about Chinese support for Russia's actions in Ukraine. The German-Chinese relationship is one of the most important in the world, as they are two of the five biggest economies.