As Boeing workers strike and airplanes are grounded for new and terrifying reasons, Mia looks back at how the shareholder revolution crushed Boeing's engineers.

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The Utopia of Rules

Liquidated An Ethnography of Wall Street

The 1997 Merger That Paved the Way for the Boeing 737 Max Crisis

The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course

Harry Stonecipher Speech

Requiem for a Dreamliner

Seeing like a CEO

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The Merger That Brought Boeing Low

Rise of the Red Engineers 

As Boeing workers strike and airplanes are grounded for new and terrifying reasons, Mia looks back at how the shareholder revolution crushed Boeing's engineers.
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It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, James Stout and Shereen Lani Younes take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

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