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Megan McArdle spent years in a doomed relationship. The reason, she says: She fell victim to a common economic fallacy. Our Planet Money team has a love story with an economic idea at its heart.

The media columnist for The New York Times died Thursday night after collapsing in the newsroom. David Carr expertly dissected journalism as an industry and as entertainment. He was 58.

The president says that companies are looking to the government to be the sheriff but that the private sector also to work together to prevent cyber attacks.

They even had light sabers for the group portrait. The crew is not headed to a galaxy far far away, but to the International Space Station this fall.

Research suggests that punishment for African-American schoolgirls is more harsh than for other groups, and the racial disparities between punishment for girls are greater than those for boys.

The Islamist extremist group that has killed and kidnapped thousands in Nigeria is increasingly expanding its area of operation as it reportedly tries to establish an independent state.

On this week's show: the Wachowskis' new kooky space adventure, the power of chemistry, and what's making us happy this week.

Yusuf Ahmed Abukar covered stories about Somalia's poor and displaced. He was critical of the government and of militants. Then one day he got a text message that said someone was coming for him.

The idea that convention cities are decided with an eye toward winning the host city's state is popular to the point of being irresistible. But it doesn't fare well against the facts.

For all the fuss, Fifty Shades Of Grey is actually pretty unambitious in its ideas about sex compared to, for instance, Alfonso Cuaron's Y Tu Mama Tambien.