Kimberly Adams

How billionaires took over U.S. elections Billionaire families contributed roughly 18% of all money raised during the 2024 election cycle.

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This week, the White House added to the list of Chinese companies blocked from receiving certain American chip technology.

For NASA, the moon just got farther away NASA is pushing back its highly anticipated Artemis 2 mission from September 2025 to April 2026.

Before this year's election, Heather Cox Richardson, a historian at Boston College, joined “Make Me Smart” live in Boston to unpack the high stakes for our economy and democracy. Now that the election is over and the transition to a second Donald Trump administration is underway, we're following up.

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“Make Me Smart's” annual holiday episode For our final episode of 2024, we're throwing a holiday party with music, festive hats, drinks and a game.

Want to protect our democracy? Start here! (rerun) Hey Smarties! We're on a break for the holidays and revisiting some of our top episodes from 2024.

Black-owned businesses paid upward of 3% more in interest than white business owners. Hispanic-owned businesses paid 2.9% more.