Tensions rise between Chicago’s top cop and oversight agency. City Council delays vote on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s bond plan. Protesters block the road to O'Hare to raise awareness on war in Gaza. Reset goes behind the headlines of those stories and many more in our Weekly News Recap with Brandon Pope of CW26, Alex Nitkin of the Illinois Answers Project for the Better Government Association, and Sam Charles of the Chicago Tribune.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Civil War, the new A24 film from British director Alex Garland, imagines a scenario that might not seem so far-fetched to some; a contemporary civil war breaking out in the United States.
And while the film has taken heat for little mention of politics, the question of an actual civil war has everything to do with it.
Amy Cooter is a director of research at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Her work has led her to the question that Garland's movie has put in the minds of both moviegoers and political pundits: Could a second civil war really happen here?
Cooter joins host Andrew Limbong to discuss the actual threat of current political movements in the U.S., outside of the movie theaters.
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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from Polymarket traders' bets on the number of Fed rate cuts to the five-day withdrawal streak of U.S.-based spot bitcoin ETFs.
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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, as U.S.-based spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds registered cumulative outflows of $4.3 million, extending the four-day run of withdrawals ahead of the halving. Plus, traders on Polymarket bet on the number of potential Fed rate cuts this year and Tether expands its USDT to the TON Network.
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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," President of the Population Research Institute Steven Mosher joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to outline the communist political movement that led to Xi Jinping's totalitarian rule in China.
You can find Mosher's new book, The Devil and Communist China: From Mao Down to Xi, here.
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Israel and Iran have been trading attacks on each other for a week including, for the first time, attacks on each other's territory. Will Israel's latest retaliation be the end of this wave of hostilities, or will Iranian response bring the long-standing enemies closer to all-out war? We hear from NPR's national security correspondent and our correspondent in Israel.
Earnings are in full swing! We’ve got updates from the industry leaders in streaming, banking, chips and real estate – but strong numbers aren’t always turning into positive market reactions.
(00:21) Ron Gross and Matt Argersinger discuss:
- Whether investors should be buying Netflix’s “pay attention to this, not that.”
- What Taiwan Semi’s results say about chips and why investors are up on United Health despite the company’s recent cybersecurity issues..
- The state of banking and brokerages, and why the current macro is confusing for everyone, even management at industrial REIT Prologis.
(19:11) Malcolm Ethridge, CFP and author of Financial Independence Doesn't Happen by Accident, walks through money conversations you should be having during financial literacy month and why he’s watching cybersecurity.
(35:42) Ron and Matt break down two stocks on their radar: Five Below and UPS.
Around the world, coastlines are constantly changing due to the power of waves, currents and tides. Coastal areas are also some of the most heavily populated and developed land areas in the world. So it’s not hard to see how the natural process of coastal erosion can cause serious problems for us.
It’s an issue that’s been bothering CrowdScience listener Anne in Miami Beach, Florida. She can see the beach from her window and wonders why after every storm, several trucks arrive to dump more sand on it.
In this first of two programmes, CrowdScience visits Anne’s home in south Florida and finds out how erosion threatens Florida’s famous beaches. Caroline Steel speaks to geoscientist Dr Tiffany Roberts Briggs and hears why it’s such a problem for this tourist-reliant state. Tiffany explains the delicate balance between natural processes and human infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico declared a state of emergency in April 2023 due to coastal erosion. Caroline witnesses the impacts of erosion first-hand, as Ruperto Chaparro shows her abandoned houses crumbling into the sea.
But how can we quantify the rate of erosion? Dr Kevian Perez in the Graduate School of Planning at University of Puerto Rico explains the methods they use to monitor Puerto Rico’s coastlines, and how they are evaluating the effectiveness of different mitigation methods.
However, some of the methods used to protect coastal communities from the encroaching sea have done more harm than good. So what are the best ways to tackle this problem? That’s what we’ll be exploring in next week’s programme.
Presenter: Caroline Steel
Producer: Hannah Fisher
Editor: Cathy Edwards
Production Co-ordinator: Liz Tuohy
Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood and Bob Nettles
Featuring:
Dr Tiffany Roberts Briggs, Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University
Ruperto Chaparro, Director of Sea Grant Programme, University of Puerto Rico
Anabela Fuentes Garcia, Villa Cristiana community leader
Dr Kevian Perez, researcher at the Coastal Research and Planning Institute of Puerto Rico at the Graduate School of Planning
(Photo: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Credit: Orlando Sentinel/Getty Images)
Alex Heath from The Verge is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Taylor Swift's new album 2) Meta's new Llama 3 release 3) Does conversational AI work in a social media products? 4) Will the value of generative AI be realized in foundational models or products? 5) Zuck's new icon status 6) Bearded Zuck 7) The risks of open sourcing massive AI models 8) Sundar Pichai writes a stern letter to Google employees 9) Google fires 28 employees involved in office takeover protest 10) Is a new Google culture taking hold? 11) Should product reviewers be kinder when products suck.
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