Broken: A Podcast on American Systems

Broken is a show about American systems: how they were built, how they function, and where they fail.

Each episode features a leading scholar, practitioner, or policy expert who has spent years studying the economic, social, and political structures that shape our daily lives. Together, we examine the architecture beneath housing, healthcare, labor markets, taxation, education, infrastructure, and much more. 

These conversations are data-driven, unscripted, non-partisan, and apolitical. They are an inquiry into how power, incentives, and institutions actually work and what that means for Americans trying to live within them, beyond the headlines and ideology.