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From the BBC World Service: Japan's snap election takes place on Sunday, just a month after Shigeru Ishiba took over as Prime Minister. A look at why it could bring more uncertainty.

Natasha Mascarenhas, reporter at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for Tech Bytes: Week in Review.

Boeing machinists say: a pension. Plus, private equity has its eye on skilled labor businesses.

Kai Ryssdal heads to the Arctic.

Reflecting on 10 seasons of "This Is Uncomfortable"

Megan Klein, founder of the mocktail-making company Little Saints, runs us through her recent experience pitching her business on the show.

According to University of Chicago Professor James Robinson, who jointly won the Nobel Prize in Economics this year, a lot of discontentment with government can be tied back to economic inequality and a perception that economic gains of the past few decades haven't substantially improved normal people's lives.

From the BBC World Service: In an exclusive BBC interview, IMF Deputy Director Gita Gopinath said tit-for-tat tariffs cause global losses in growth equivalent in size to the economies of France and Germany.

Parts can be more easily replaced in the new iPhone 16 than in earlier models, thanks largely to right-to-repair advocates. Kyle Wiens, CEO of the repair guide website iFixit, explains.

Hundreds of elderly Americans, including those with dementia, were misled into giving away millions in campaign donations.