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South Africa’s embattled former leader will be imprisoned for failing to show up to trial—a sign that, for all the rot in South Africa, its Constitutional Court still has teeth. Our environment editor discusses the scope of heatwaves sweeping the northern hemisphere and cheap ways to lower their death tolls. And how a centuries-old rice dish has become politicised in India.
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The Champlain Tower South building in Surfside Florida collapsed early last Thursday morning, seemingly out of the blue. But reporting shows that the condo board members were aware the building was structurally unsound for years.
Right now the death toll stands at 12, with 149 people still unaccounted for. How did such a preventable tragedy take place?
Guest: Daniel Rivero, reporter for WLRN in Miami.
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The UK?s Covid cases are still rising and Scotland is being hit particularly hard - so are we speeding up our vaccination programme in response?
Will many of the UK?s coastal towns, not to mention central London, be underwater in the next few years?
Do the country?s poorest households really pay more than half their income in tax?
What are the top five places with the best vaccination rates in the world? The answers may surprise you.
We speak to Tom Chivers, a science journalist who has written a book called ?How to Read numbers? with his cousin the economist David Chivers.
It may be difficult to imagine that a consequential black electoral politics evolved in the United States before the Civil War, for as of 1860, the overwhelming majority of African Americans remained in bondage. Yet free black men, many of them escaped slaves, steadily increased their influence in electoral politics over the course of the early American republic. Despite efforts to disfranchise them, black men voted across much of the North, sometimes in numbers sufficient to swing elections. In The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (UNC Press, 2021), Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln's election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states.
Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. From Portland, Maine and New Bedford, Massachusetts to Brooklyn and Cleveland, black men operated as voting blocs, denouncing the notion that skin color could define citizenship.
Jessica Georges is a third year history PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Intense heat waves in the Pacific Northwest are causing heavy power demands and rolling blackouts. Unprecedented rainfall in the Midwest has caused flooding, which politicians have blamed on a lack of spending on proper infrastructure.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced a bill to establish a House committee that will investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. The committee will have 13 members, but it's not known whether Republicans will want to be part of it.
Plus Cleo Stiller fills in for Gideon. And in headlines: L.A. County advises masking indoors again, rare black hole and neutron star collisions are spotted, and the House votes to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol.
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The news to know for Wednesday, June 30th, 2021!
What to know about a warning sent to condo residents in Florida just a couple of months before their building collapsed.
Also, as if the heatwave wasn't bad enough on its own, the western U.S. is now dealing with blackouts and wildfires.
Plus, a new tool that could help crack down on robocalls, a lower-cost way for diabetes patients to get their insulin, and a historic first for the Miss USA pageant.
Those stories and more in about 10 minutes!
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As the media goes, so goes the nation, to borrow from the old adage.
The cultural influence of media—including movies, TV shows, and YouTube videos—is being felt with greater significance today than arguably any other time in history. James Fitzgerald founded ColdWater Media to promote the values so many Americans hold dear.
The political “left has done a really good job of building business models around indoctrinating our kids,” Fitzgerald says.
Fitzgerald uses film to explore some of the biggest issues and questions facing culture today, covering topics ranging from history and philosophy to education and economics. He joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the mission of ColdWater Media and some of the company's latest projects, including a series sharing the history of all the American holidays.
Today's show also features an interview with John Papola, the CEO, creative director, and cofounder of the media company Emergent Order. Papola explains how he uses rap, humor, and storytelling to communicate American values through film.
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The Supreme Court’s 2020-21 term is closing, and we are opening a window into the Court. We begin this multiple-episode series by looking closely at each Justice - specifically, their backgrounds and how their jurisprudence reflects influences from their past. Each Justice has their best and worst moments in Akhil’s eyes, and we discuss them. Also, Akhil has an important appearance coming up, so some background to that event is yours for the listening.