On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," The Federalist's Elle Purnell, John Daniel Davidson, Jordan Boyd, Tristan Justice, Brianna Lyman and Beth Brelje join The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the biggest stories of 2024. From the historic assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump, to President Joe Biden being ousted via a coup as the Democrat nominee to everything in between, tune-in to recap 2024.
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Focus on Africa - How South Africa’s drug trade is rooted in apartheid rule
South Africa has become a key player in the International drugs trade, that's according to the global crime index. The country has a growing domestic market and now shares trade connections with South America, Europe, Hong Kong and Australia. We'll hear from South African journalist and author Caryn Dolley who has written about how deeply entrenched South Africa is in the international narco scene
Also, why are there so few legal protections for whistleblowers?
And advice on pension funds and why we need to start thinking about it!
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Native America Calling - Tuesday, December 31, 2024 – The Menu: King Philip Corn, the healing power of Natoncks Metsu, and remembering Terrol Dew Johnson
Danielle Hill (Wampanoag) is on a quest to build awareness of King Philip corn, or weeâchumun, a red corn variety once grown by Northeastern tribes, but was targeted for destruction more than 300 years ago during the King Philip War.
Jason Vickers (Nipmuc) just opened his own catering and personal chef business in Seattle. Natoncks Metsu is the culmination of his connection to food sovereignty that helped him overcome substance abuse and homelessness.
We remember Tohono O’odham food sovereignty advocate Terrol Dew Johnson with someone who learned from him.
They're all part of this year's final edition of The Menu hosted by Andi Murphy. CBS News Roundup - 12/31/2024 | World News Roundup
Prepping for 2025. Memorial plans for former President Jimmy Carter take shape. A China-linked Treasury hack. Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, December 31, 2024:
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Up First from NPR - Gaza War 2024, Gaza Hospital Shutdown, Biden’s Complicated Legacy
After a year of on-again, off-again Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations, what will 2025 hold? Israeli raids shut down a North Gaza hospital that aid workers called a lifeline. President Biden ends his political career with a complicated legacy.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 Bonus: Matt Pierce, Immediate (Replay)
Matt Pierce has been a tech guy for his entire 17 year career. Coming out of grad school, he started out in healthcare tech for a decade or so. Eventually, he started down the path of being an entrepreneur. He is married with 3 daughters - 2 in third grade and one that is a 2 year old. He mentioned the entrepreneurial dilemma of picking 3 of the 5 life choices - family, business, sleep, exercise and friendships - and notes that his three are family, business, and sleep.
After spending nights and weekends burning the midnight oil on a healthcare tech solution, Matt sat down with a prospective client and did the best pitch ever. The client's feedback was that it didn't solve her real problem which was turnover, which boiled down to money. After chatting with the client and a mentor, Matt uncovered the best potential solution to financial stress - on demand pay.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Billions of voices heard: a year of elections
In some places, votes resulted in political chaos; in others they showed a promising shift away from identity politics. Our deputy editor looks back on 2024’s pile of polls. Looking ahead, we examine the Chinese cities that will come into their own in 2025 (11:36). And the changing economics of Poland’s traditional “milk bars” (16:29).
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.31.24
Alabama
- Governor Ivey orders flags flown at half mast to honor the life of Jimmy Carter
- Survey teams confirm that at least 5 tornados touched down in Alabama
- Congressman Moore calls out Joe Biden for draining US of its $ for Ukraine
- Mayor of Thomasville reveals at least 2 purchasers in talks for medical center
- Deatsville man facing federal charges of embezzlement from company
National
- 40 tornadoes damaged communities in 7 states and killed 4 people
- White House offers more aid to Ukraine, total so far from US is at $130B
- 2nd Circuit court upholds $5M ruling against Trump in E.Jean Carroll case
- Trump comes out with full endorsement of Mike Johnson as House Speaker
- US attorney Matthew Graves submits resignation ahead of Trump admin.
- SC Jack Smith sends docs to FL to pursue charges against Trump staff
- Report on H-1B visa program shows underpayment of foreign workers
- CIA whistleblower talks about gaslighting from agency re: DEWs
Honestly with Bari Weiss - What to Expect in 2025: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, John McWhorter, Nellie Bowles, Leandra Medine, and more
This past year was not easy. But 2024 certainly was eventful. Joe Biden dropped out of the race at the eleventh hour, and Kamala Harris’s swift anointment brought us the joy of Brat summer. There was not one, but two assassination attempts against Donald Trump; the continued wars in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon; the sudden and surprising fall of the Assad regime in Syria; the murder of a CEO (and Luigi Mania); mystery drones over New Jersey; and finally, Trump's decisive reelection to the White House.
On a cheerier note, 2024 was also the year of breakdancing at the Paris Olympics; Claudine Gay’s resignation from Harvard; SpaceX’s first commercial spacewalk; and Israel’s epic spy-thriller, pager-explosion attack on Hezbollah—not to mention they took out Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar as well.
So, what will 2025 bring?
We are starting the year, as we did last December, with a special 2025 predictions episode of Honestly. We called up some friends of the pod—people we trust in their fields—to get a better sense of what’s in store for the year ahead.
Political analyst and former spokesperson at the Department of Justice Sarah Isgur tells us what we can expect in the Trump 2.0 White House. Linguist John McWhorter looks at new words and how language will evolve in the coming months. Our very own Suzy Weiss talks us through the cultural calendar. Stylist Leandra Medine clues us in on fashion trends in 2025, and last but not least: Historian Niall Ferguson tells us, as he did last year as well, whether or not we’re right to have nightmares about World War III—but for real this time.
Some guests cheered us up, whereas others freaked us out. All of them were a pleasure to talk to. We hope you enjoy these conversations with some of our favorite people.
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NBN Book of the Day - Hugh Wilford, “The CIA: An Imperial History” (Basic Books, 2024)
As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters at home.
The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation--but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture, the history of Western empire. While young CIA officers imagined themselves as British imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past.
Comprehensive, original, and gripping, The CIA: An Imperial History (Basic Books, 2024) is the story of the birth of a new imperial order in the shadows. It offers the most complete account yet of how America adopted unaccountable power and secrecy abroad and at home.
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