Elle Hardy is an Australian-born journalist usually based between the UK and US. She has reported extensively on stories from the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places. Credits include The Times, GQ, The Guardian, The Outline, Monocle, Foreign Policy, Vice, ABC, and Lonely Planet. She has written a book called Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World for Hurst Publishers (2021). DONATE TODAYA note from Lev: I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.   The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy.   I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor.  Best, Lev