This week, The Daily examined how people are searching for solutions to modern anxieties—whether through technological fixes like artificial intelligence, diplomatic breakthroughs in geopolitical tensions, or personal strategies for managing happiness and heartbreak. From the opioid crisis to tangled negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, the episodes reveal a recurring tension: our impulse to engineer our way out of complex human problems, even when the messiest parts of life resist optimization.
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