Solutions with Henry Blodget

Solutions with Henry Blodget

We hear enough about our problems. Let’s solve them. Every Monday, journalist, analyst and entrepreneur Henry Blodget interviews leading thinkers across business, tech, politics and beyond about their big ideas for how to build a better future. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Episodes

Business Insider Embraced AI. How’s It Going?

November 24, 2025 • 51 mins
Business Insider recently told its reporters they could use AI to write first drafts of their stories. It was a notable decision by editor-in-chief Jamie Heller, and made BI one of the first mainstream media outlets to embrace AI. We ask Heller what exactly AI is being used for in the BI newsroom. Plus: what skillsets still feel way out of ChatGPT’s reach, and why this is still a good time to get into journalism. Learn more about ...
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How Can American Politics Recover from Trump?

November 17, 2025 • 45 mins
John Harris, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Politico, is a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist. In this episode, we appeal to his optimism and ask how the US can recover from its current politics of contempt. Harris shares his analysis of President Trump as the most successful third-party candidate in American history, casts doubt on the fantasy of the “rational center” candidate, and considers what it might take for...
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It’s Time for Medicare for All

November 10, 2025 • 57 mins
In the 1990s, Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler did something her colleagues at Harvard called “crazy:” she decided to work with a senator named Bernie Sanders on healthcare reform. Dr. Woolhandler had already founded an advocacy group called Physicians for a National Health Program, which declared the for-profit healthcare system broken and proposed one solution: single-payer national health insurance. (Or, as Sanders calls it, Medicare f...
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Kids Should Have a Driver's License Before a Smartphone

November 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Have smartphones destroyed a generation? That was the title of a viral essay by Dr. Jean Twenge in The Atlantic in 2017, which first catapulted her work into the spotlight. For years before The Anxious Generation, Dr. Twenge (who now collaborates with Jonathan Haidt) was raising the alarm about social media use and teen mental health. Now, Dr. Twenge has released clear guidelines for parents on how to manage the technology in thei...
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The New Digg Wants to Bring Back a Peaceful Internet

October 27, 2025 • 69 mins
Roughly 20 years ago, Digg was known as the homepage of the internet. The social and news platform was so big that Alexis Ohanian, the founder of Reddit, referred to it as “the enemy.” But things have changed, and this year, the site's original founder Kevin Rose teamed up with Ohanian to revamp and relaunch Digg. Now, in this age of AI, the new Digg is betting on the long-term value of real human connection. Kevin Rose tells Hen...
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You Can (And Should) Change Your Personality

October 20, 2025 • 53 mins
Certain personality traits can determine how happy you are, sometimes more than income and IQ. That’s according to author and journalist Olga Khazan. Hoping to shed some of her more neurotic personality traits, Khazan recently set out to change her personality for the better… and succeeded. Today, Khazan tells us how. Plus: we hear about another recent discovery — why Khazan thinks she might be “doomed to be a tradwife.”  Learn mor...
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The U.S. Needs a Democracy Movement

October 13, 2025 • 59 mins
Anne Applebaum is an award-winning historian and journalist who studies democracy and dictatorship. Her latest book, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, explores how autocracies are working together to undermine democracy across the globe. Fortunately, Applebaum also considers how democracies can maintain their power against the siege of authoritarianism. Today, why is democracy worth fighting for and how can ...
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How Mark Cuban Wants to Fix Healthcare

October 6, 2025 • 60 mins
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has set out to fix the broken U.S. healthcare system, and he’s starting with drug prices. In 2022, Cuban launched the online pharmacy Cost Plus Drugs, which aims to sell generic drugs at huge discounts. He explains the business, how it’s going, and why expensive hospital visits are next on his list. Plus, we get his takes on sports gambling, Silicon Valley’s turn to the right, and AI.  Note: this ep...
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How to Worry Less & Find Meaning with Happiness Expert Arthur Brooks

September 29, 2025 • 54 mins
Arthur Brooks has spent years studying the exact components of a happy life. And now, the bestselling author and Harvard professor has collected his top findings into a new book: The Happiness Files. This week, we ask him how to worry less about money, find your calling, and what research tells us all happy people have in common.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How to Actually Be Healthier

September 22, 2025 • 62 mins
Dr. Jessica Knurick is a rare kind of academic: she's also very good at social media, and has recently gone viral for her criticisms of the MAHA movement. A registered dietitian with a PhD in nutrition science, Dr. Knurick says MAHA is right that Americans are notoriously unhealthy, but the movement has the solutions all wrong. This week, we turn to Dr. Knurick for the facts: what do we know about what is good for us, what small th...
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How to Stop Russian Ops from Exploiting AI

September 15, 2025 • 48 mins
According to a recent report from data collected in August, when prompted on divisive topics in the news, the top 10 AI chatbots spread false information 35% of the time — and even spread fake stories intentionally planted by Russian disinformation campaigns. So why are LLMs vulnerable to disinformation and how have Russian operatives have learned to exploit them? This week, an explanation and solution from the co-founders of N...
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How to Turbo Charge Your Career (And Not Give A...) with Kara Swisher

September 8, 2025 • 73 mins
Confidence comes easy for Kara Swisher. It’s one of the reasons she walked out of class in second grade (she knew everything), and later built a career as one of Silicon Valley’s most feared and respected journalists. Kara tells us her secrets to success, why she’s optimistic about the future of media vs. AI, and why so many powerful figures in tech still manage to maintain a victim mentality. Plus: how Steve Jobs would have hand...
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How This Company is Building Flying Taxis

September 1, 2025 • 59 mins
When will it be relatively normal to request a ride from a flying taxi? Within the next decade, at least according to our guests today: Stuart Simpson, CEO of Vertical Aerospace, and Jason Mudrick, the company’s largest shareholder and founder of Mudrick Capital Management. Vertical Aerospace is one of three companies trying to make flying taxis a reality now. This week, Stuart and Mudrick tell Henry about the aircraft the company ...
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How to AI-Proof Your Job

August 25, 2025 • 68 mins
Harvard economist and researcher David Deming studies technology and the future of work. Lately, he’s been doing a lot of research about AI: he’s dug into technological shifts of the past for clues about what might happen to the U.S. labor market now, and he’s even quantified the rapid rate of adoption of generative AI. Deming doubts AI will cause a jobs apocalypse, but he does believe things will change. Today, he tells us his i...
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How Paul Krugman Would Fix The Economy

August 18, 2025 • 81 mins
What would an actually good tariff policy look like? Can the U.S. ever bring back manufacturing jobs, and should it? How bad is the deficit and what can we do to address it?  In the first episode of Solutions, Henry asks Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about the most pressing problems facing the U.S. economy — and how he would fix them. Follow Solutions on TikTok and Instagram @solutionswithhenry  Paul Krugman writes ...
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Introducing Solutions with Henry Blodget

August 8, 2025 • 1 min
It feels like we’re drowning in problems right now. But for every one of our problems, there are smart, enterprising people working hard to solve them. Which is why acclaimed journalist and entrepreneur Henry Blodget is launching a new podcast called Solutions. Every week, he’ll interview leading thinkers across business, tech, politics and beyond about their big ideas for building a better future. Coming to YouTube and other podca...
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