Soccer leagues around the world use a promotion-and-relegation system to reward the best teams and punish the worst. We ask whether American sports fans would enjoy a similar system.

Freakonomics Radio fans! Stephen Dubner is coming to Chicago. Join Stephen on Saturday, October 18th as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival as he celebrates 20 years of Freakonomics and talks about how it all started and how it’s grown. Tickets on sale now!

Freakonomics Radio fans! Stephen Dubner is coming to Washington, D.C. Join Stephen on Sunday, November 2nd at Sixth & I as he celebrates 20 years of Freakonomics and talks about how it all started and how it’s grown. Tickets on sale now!

The economics of billboards: The world’s oldest advertising medium has reconfigured itself for the digital age.

The N.F.L. is a powerful cartel with imperial desires. College football is about to undergo a financial reckoning. So maybe they should team up?

📢 Foremost Clean Energy $FMST: Strategic Advantage in the Athabasca Basin In our latest interview, CEO Jason Barnard highlights how @FMSTCleanEnergy's partnership with Denison Mines $DNN and proximity to world-class producers like Cameco set the stage for outsized upside: Why

Freakonomics Radio fans! Stephen Dubner is coming to Chicago. Join Stephen on Saturday, October 18th as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival as he celebrates 20 years of Freakonomics and talks about how it all started and how it’s grown. Tickets on sale now!

Polly Trottenberg and Kenneth Levin discuss the highs and lows of the American air traffic control system. To get subscriber-only episodes, sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts here: https://t.co/o3iOkdKouO, or on other apps here: https://t.co/36R6pPdCMj.

Steven Pinker’s (@sapinker) new book argues that relationships depend on shared assumptions and trying to understand what other people are thinking. He and @StevenDLevitt talk about the psychology of eye contact and what it’s like to get cancelled.

Some singles choose to skip the apps and get fixed up the old-fashioned way — but it doesn’t come cheap.

The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption — and that the U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit.

“The Power of Habit” author Charles Duhigg (@cduhigg) wrote his new book in an attempt to learn how to communicate better. @StevenDLevitt shares how the book helped him understand his own conversational weaknesses.

Megachurches have thousands of congregants and millions of dollars in income.

In his new book “Breakneck,” Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.” We have questions.

A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? Could a guaranteed basic income be the solution?

Seth Berkley (@DrSethBerkley) used to run the world’s largest vaccine funding organization. He and @StevenDLevitt talk about the incredible value of vaccines, the economics of immunizing the developing world, and the current attacks on public health.

Pure maple syrup can be five times as expensive as “pancake syrup,” but maple farmers — and breakfast connoisseurs — say it’s worth it.

What does it take to “play 3D chess at 250 miles an hour”? And how far will $12.5 billion of “Big, Beautiful” funding go toward modernizing the F.A.A.?

Why did it take so long to invent a longer-lasting lightbulb?

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Is the air traffic control system broken? Flying in the U.S. is still exceptionally safe, but the system relies on outdated tech and is under tremendous strain. Six experts tell us how it got this way and how it can (maybe) be fixed.