It Turns Out
Hosted by Kara and Kara Miller and Kara Swisher · Kara Miller
4.4from 218 ratings
- 27
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 218
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About It Turns Out
"It Turns Out" reveals the hidden realities reshaping our world—from how marriage impacts inequality to the way that the tax code has transformed wealth. Through conversations with experts who challenge conventional wisdom, award-winning journalist Kara Miller focuses each episode on groundbreaking research, changing how listeners see society, economics, technology, and human behavior. “It Turns Out” delves into data that directly impacts your life—whether you know it or not. You can reach us at info@itturnsoutshow.com We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This work was done under Grant No. G-2025-79141.
- Publisher
- Kara Miller
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 27 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Forget class differences. How age divides America.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Elizabeth Kolbert on why we stopped talking about climate change
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bosses ordered people back to work. Where are they?
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Forget class differences. How age divides America.
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because it immunized elder benefits from cuts. I think that's the right thing to do. But it did cut SNAP benefits for children in poverty, exacerbating this already extraordinary disparity between federal outlays for seniors and those for children. For me, precisely the folks in whom we'd want to start with, because our obligation as a society is to launch people, equip them, launch them in their primes, take care of them too when they're not in their primes. Now, a common response would be, well, we've chosen to organize senior care at the federal level through federal benefits, Social Security and Medicare. […]
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- Samuel Moyn
- Elizabeth Kolbert
- Nick Bloom
- Owen Zidar
- Ray Madoff
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 212 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
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Who hosts It Turns Out?
Kara and Kara Miller and Kara Swisher host the show. Published by Kara Miller.
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