2026-08-27
18 分钟This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway, we've smuggled products into North Korea,
and now we make it to our seventh continent, Antarctica.
That's right.
Speak for me.
Mr. Penguin, speak for me.
That's another sound of Antarctica.
That's a reporter trying to interview a penguin.
We'll explain on Planet Money Summer School.
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Today on the show, money.
President Trump's preferred candidate won a Republican Senate runoff in South Carolina,
but not before Trump's super PAC stepped in to get her over the finish line.
And the fund that pays for Social Security is just a couple years from running out.
Why is no one talking about this?
It's the NPR Politics Podcast.
I'm Miles Parks.
I cover voting.
I'm Ashley Lopez.
I cover politics.
And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.