After Hours

Medicare for All, plus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amazon HQ2, Marie Kondo, Toys, Spotify and Podcasting, and More

Feb 13, 2019

34:17

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

Medicare for All

3min

The Argument for a Moderate Medicare Program

4min

The Sanders Proposal to Dismantle the US Healthcare System

3min

The Sliding Scale on Patents

5min

Amazon Threatens to Move Out of New York City

2min

The Internet of Space: The Future of Toys

2min

Microsoft's $500 Billion to Address Public Housing Crisis

2min

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Face of Corporate Paternalism

3min

10.

The Importance of Social Media in Politics

2min

11.

Spotify's Acquisition of Audible

2min

12.

The Power of Questioning

2min

13.

Minding the Gap

4min

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate Medicare for All and ask whether the U.S. healthcare system is broken. They then offer quick takes on everything from Amazon’s latest HQ2 news, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s influence, Marie Kondo, the toy industry, Spotify’s aggressive push into podcasting, and more!

Some recent picks:

Goodbye Big Five: Life Without the Tech Giants (Kashmir Hill, for Gizmodo)
Minding the Gap (Hulu documentary)
Andy Warhol retrospective (Whitney Museum)
Cassette (app)
Seven Days Out: Ep 2: Eleven Madison Park (Netflix)
Tsutaya Bookstores (Japan)
Richard Brody’s Review of Roma (New Yorker)
The Tangled Tree (David Quammen)
Mary Oliver poetry
Money Heist (Netflix)
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Profile of Mark Burnett (New Yorker)
Cooking by Ear (Podcast)

You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme and Mihir on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon and @DesaiMihirA.

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