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 How can America fix its housing shortage?

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we ask what it would take for the country to build more homes

Suburban housing, Houston, United States

America doesn’t have enough homes. The “yes in my backyard”, or YIMBY, movement believes that making it easier to build is the best solution. To what extent would building more help solve America’s housing problem?


John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Daniel Knowles. They’re joined by YIMBY activist Sonja Trauss and law professor Michael Allan Wolf. The Economist’s Stevie Hertz reports from New York.

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People crossing a river.

Podcast Drum Tower

Why Chinese migrants are crossing dangerous jungle to reach America

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, in the first episode of a four-part series, we travel to Colombia to meet Chinese migrants en route to the southern border of the United States

Randy George

Podcast The Intelligence

Meet the general reinventing America’s army

Also on the daily podcast: private tutoring in Asia and celebrating novelist Elias Khoury


People hold hands at a memorial event marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack in southern Israel, in Tel Aviv, on October 7, 2024

Podcast The Intelligence

How October 7th shattered the Middle East

Also on the daily podcast: Dispatches from Israel, Gaza and Lebanon


Podcast The Weekend Intelligence

Black Boxes (part two)

How Michael Kovrig survived 1019 days in Chinese detention

Podcast The Weekend Intelligence

Black Boxes (part one)

How Michael Kovrig became a political hostage in China

Podcast Checks and Balance

Who’s winning in Pennsylvania?

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week our hosts travel to the state most likely to decide the election