Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown's Annenberg Institute, share their take on the news.

On this episode: the illusion that is Infrastructure Week; Biden's agenda and early-onset midterm anxiety for Democrats; debunking the great inflation panic; G20, COP26, and the promises that countries won't keep; crisis at the Belarus/Poland border, and the weaponization of immigrants; Squid Game; Mark and Carrie politicize Daylight Savings Time. 

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