Matters of Policy & Politics
Today: #99 in News, Philippines on our combined chart.
Chart positions today · United Kingdom
Not on the United States charts we track today.
Not on the United Kingdom charts we track today.
Not on the Canada charts we track today.
Not on the Australia charts we track today.
Not on the Germany charts we track today.
Not on the Brazil charts we track today.
Not on the Mexico charts we track today.
Not on the New Zealand charts we track today.
Not on the Ireland charts we track today.
Not on the India charts we track today.
Not on the Japan charts we track today.
Not on the South Africa charts we track today.
If you like Matters of Policy & Politics, try…
Ranking history · United Kingdom
Latest episodes
-
What 2026 Nobel Laureate Robert Hall Taught Us About the Economy
October 16, 2026 · 45 minRobert E. Hall, the Hoover Institution’s Robert and Carole McNeil Senior Fellow (Emeritus) and Stanford professor of economics, has been named a co-recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to…
-
The Medicare Time Bomb: Can Washington Defuse It?
October 9, 2026 · 43 minA vestige of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”, the federal Medicare healthcare program has expanded in ways its architects perhaps didn’t foresee – a growing constituency (nearly 70 million elderly Americans now rely on Medicare for their…
-
Weathering the Storms: Steven Koonin on Data Centers, Energy Strategies and Climate Change
October 2, 2026 · 47 minA divided America agrees on one thing: most folks don’t want new data centers in their communities. But do data centers live up to their sour reputation as water and electricity gluttons? Or are they, in fact, a 21st Century version of the…
-
California Update: Did Bonta Get Rolled? Is High-Speed Rail Doomed? Is Newsom Angling for 2028?
September 25, 2026 · 51 minAmong the latest happenings in the Golden State: choosing California-based “winners” and “losers” in the aftermath of the settlement of the state attorney generals’ antitrust suit blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger (a good day for…
-
AI in the Classroom: Promise or Peril?
September 18, 2026 · 50 minThe beginning of a new K-12 year across the United States means the continuation of a learning-loss problem that predates COVID’s disruption of America’s educational system, as well as a new concern in more recent times: artificial…
Show 7 more episodesShow fewer episodes
-
Amidst “A World of Generational Change”: 9/11’s Lessons and Legacy
September 11, 2026 · 57 minTwenty-five years ago, the Free World was shocked by an attack on America in which three airliners struck New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon – a fourth plane crashing in rural Pennsylvania presumably on its way to strike the US…
-
Keeping a Cold War Chilled: Mobilizing the Modern Defense Industrial Base
September 11, 2026 · 52 minA recent AI analysis conducted by a team of Hoover fellows finds the US at greater risk of great-power hostilities with China than in recent decades, thus necessitating America to step up its deterrence capabilities. That includes the…
-
Reclaiming Liberal Education in America
August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minThe beginning of a new college year across the United States begs the question of the health of liberal education in America – the ongoing concern that tomorrow’s leaders aren’t receiving the intellectual grounding and diversity of thought…
-
California Update: Homeless Conundra, Bickering Billionaires, Paramount Concerns, Harry and Meghan’s “Sussex-it”
August 21, 2026 · 40 minOrdinarily, summertime in Sacramento in an election year coinciding with a governor’s last year in office makes for plenty of intrigue (what bills are forwarded to the governor; how does it affect his legacy)? But in 2026, the leadup to…
-
Apple at 50: Stephen Haber on Quintessential American Innovation
August 14, 2026 · 53 minFifty years ago, three young men working out of a modest ranch-style home in Los Altos, California, changed the world by creating Apple Inc. But is Apple’s success (at one point this year, a $5 trillion market cap) a one-off or yet another…
-
(Space) Safety First: Simone D’Amico on Safeguarding Earth’s Lower Orbit
July 31, 2026 · 51 minTo the notion of a vast and empty outer space, imagine instead the lower orbit of planet Earth cluttered by thousands of aging tracked objects losing their functionality and far too much debris – some of it moving at speeds of kilometers…
-
Quantum Leap? How America and Her Allies Can Lead the Next Tech Revolution
July 17, 2026 · 51 minIn a year full of talk about revolutions past (1776) and present (AI), there’s yet another upheaval to ponder: an emerging “quantum revolution” that will change the boundaries of science and industry as it deeply impacts global commerce…

United States
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Germany
India
Ireland
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
Philippines
South Africa