Freakonomics Radio

Clever ways to not waste our waste.

The science of charity, with economist John List.

There’s a nasty secret about hot-button topics like global warming: knowledge is not always power.

Our appetite for breast meat renders our holiday birds unable to reproduce.

Is booing an act of verbal vandalism—or the last true expression of democracy?

On Election Day, most people focus on the obvious winners and losers -- that is, the candidates. But we went looking for some of the strange side effects that elections produce.

We are constantly wowed by new technologies and policies meant to make childbirth better. But beware the unintended consequences.

High-stakes testing has produced some rotten apples. But they can be caught.

Did we needlessly scare ourselves into ditching a good thing? And, with millions of cars driving around with no passengers, should we be rooting for a renaissance?

The world is a more peaceful place today that at any time in history -- by a long, long shot.