How Russia is Benefitting from the Iran War; MTA Update: Lawsuits; McKay Coppins' Year of Sports Betting; 'Friction-Maxxing'

• Joshua Keating, senior correspondent at Vox covering foreign policy and world news, breaks down his latest reporting on how Russian President Vladimir Putin is benefitting from the United States' war in Iran, including how Russia is now earning an extra $150 million per day in oil sales since the start of the war.
  
  
• Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, talks about the latest MTA news, including its lawsuit over federal funds for the Second Avenue subway construction and the transit union's lawsuit over staffing at toll booths.
  
  
• McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Romney: A Reckoning (Simon & Schuster, 2023), discusses his year-long foray into the world of sports betting and his observation of how gambling has permeated "every nook and cranny" of American life in a very short amount of time.
  
  
• Kathryn Jezer-Morton, author of The Cut's Brooding newsletter, talks about her plan to "friction-maxx" this year in life and in parenting—that is, to build tolerance for "inconvenience" despite tech companies' attempts to make our lives smooth and frictionless.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.