Undercurrents

Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Author and policy expert Clare Morell joins us to discuss her groundbreaking new book The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones. Drawing on years of research and firsthand accounts, Morell reveals how families have been misled into believing that tech dangers can be “managed” with parental controls—when in fact, the only real solution is a full-scale exit. She lays out a bold but doable roadmap for parents, schools, and communities to reclaim childhood, restore attention spans, and foster healthier human connection in a screen-saturated world.Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Emily breaks down Donald Trump's response to the phrase "TACO trade." She dives into the origins of the term and its impact on financial markets. Is it a fair critique of his trade policy, or just another misread of his negotiating style? Plus, Emily explains what's at stake with the pending reconciliation bill and how it could reshape U.S. trade dynamics.Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/George Beebe joins Emily to explain whether Trump's increasingly rocky relationship with Vladimir Putin signals the end of peace negotiations in Ukraine. Beebe argues Trump very much still has a path to securing an agreement between the two countries, despite recent setbacks.Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Click the link in the description or head over https://evening.ver.so/undercurrents and use coupon code UNDERCURRENTS at checkout to save 15% on your first order.Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Emily breaks down news that Anthropic and Grok are acting beyond the control of their designers. Anthropic, according to reports, recently blackmailed an engineer.Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Emily weighs in on the debate about who’s to blame for the tragic shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC by a man who shouted “Free Palestine!”

Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Sean Davis joins Emily to argue that “woke right” is a term created by anti-woke liberals who once sided with conservatives but now want to gatekeep the right. The label, Davis argues, is a “smear.”Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Colin Wright joins Emily to discuss whether the anti-woke coalition can survive the anti-woke backlash. Wright argues that while wokeness isn’t going anywhere, some corners of the right are falling into the same trap that destroyed the leftWatch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Click the link in the description or head over https://evening.ver.so/undercurrents and use coupon code UNDERCURRENTS at checkout to save 15% on your first order.Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Emily reacts to claims by FBI officials Kash Patel and Dan Bongino that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. It's one more piece of evidence, she argues, that Trump world is not being entirely honest when it comes to Epstein.Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/

Become a supporter of the show - just $1 for the first month: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/Emily reacts to news of Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis. Doctors agree that the diagnosis is likely not a recent discovery, which leads Emily to question whether this was an intentional cover-up by the Biden administration.Watch it on the Undercurrents website: https://unherd.com/undercurrents/