A.M. Edition for July 15. Nvidia says it’s received assurances it can sell its H20 AI chips in China, days after CEO Jensen Huang met President Trump. Beijing bureau chief Jonathan Cheng breaks down how the announcement could tie into broader U.S.-China trade talks. Plus, bank earnings and fresh inflation data are poised to give investors dual snapshots of the state of the economy. And WSJ’s Jack Pitcher explains that while the U.S. dollar’s continued weakness is bad news for American travelers this summer, it’s not the worst thing for U.S. companies this earnings season. Luke Vargas hosts.
In a push for a ceasefire, President Trump announces measures to help Ukraine and punish Russia. The Supreme Court gives the White House the green light to resume mass firings at the Department of Education. And residents accuse staffers of not protecting them from a deadly fire at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts.
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Just two weeks ago, New Yorkers voted en masse for a self-proclaimed socialist—someone who once called for “seizing the means of production.”
This is, of course, Zohran Mamdani, who dominated in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor with a definitive victory over Andrew Cuomo.
He has called for rent freezes, free buses, and even government-run grocery stores.
He won 56 percent of the vote in a campaign fueled by young, highly educated, wealthy people—many of whom believe in reviving socialism here in America, in 2025.
According to a Cato Institute poll from May: 62 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 say they hold a “favorable view” of socialism. And 34 percent had a positive view of communism.
Polls by Emerson and Marist from May and June had shown Mamdani leading with voters under 45 by as much as a 2:1 ratio against the former governor.
This phenomenon has left many people wondering: Why are so many young people embracing a failed economic system? Is it their university education? Is it the influence of social media? Is it just “cool”? Is it a desperate call for anything to fix wealth inequality? Or is it something else?
Here to help us understand are Tyler Cowen and Kyla Scanlon.
Tyler Cowen is an economist and Free Press columnist who just wrote an important essay for us called “Why Won’t Socialism Die?”
Kyla Scanlon is a writer, economic commentator, and educator—and, importantly for this conversation, a member of Gen Z. She is 28, and her new book is In This Economy? How Money & Markets Really Work.
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Throughout World War II, Nazi Germany was a formidable force due to its military strength and success.
A large reason for this success was its intelligence network.
What most people don’t know is that the Nazi head of military intelligence was actively working against Adolf Hitler.
Through a series of active and passive measures, he went from a loyal Nazi to a double agent.
Find out about Wilhelm Canaris and how he resisted Hitler from one of the highest positions in the Third Reich on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Last week I mentioned that I’m ready to try direnv again, but secretly, I still had some worries about the process. Thankfully, Trey has a tutorial to walk me past the troublesome parts.
direnv - an extension for your shell. It augments existing shells with a new feature that can load and unload environment variables depending on the current directory.
Switching from virtualenvwrapper to direnv, Starship, and uv
- Trey Hunner**
Trey has solved a bunch of the problems I had when I tried direnv before
Show the virtual environment name in the prompt
Place new virtual environments in local .venv instead of in .direnv/python3.12
Silence all of the “loading”, “unloading” statements every time you enter a directory
Have a script called
venv
to create an environment, activate it, create a
.envrc
file
I’m more used to a create script, so I’ll stick with that name and Trey’s contents
A
workon
script to be able to switch around to different projects.
This is a carry over from “virtualenvwrapper’, but seems cool. I’ll take it.
Adding
uv
to the mix for creating virtual environments.
Interestingly including --seed which, for one, installs pip in the new environment. (Some tools need it, even if you don’t)
Starship
Trey also has some setup for Starship. But I’ll get through the above first, then MAYBE try Starship again.
Some motivation
Trey’s setup is pretty simple. Maybe I was trying to get too fancy before
Starship config in toml files that can be loaded with direnv and be different for different projects. Neato
Also, Trey mentions his dotfiles repo. This is a cool idea that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time.
We’re talking about the new plan for the Education Department now that the U.S. Supreme Court has weighed in.
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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago, the question of abortion's legality and availability returned to the states. As of now, abortion remains broadly legal in more than 30 states and Washington, D.C. In some, like Kansas, Missouri and Montana, abortion is still legal largely because of voters. But while Trump spent a lot of time on the campaign trail trying to avoid the topic of abortion, his new tax and spending law proves that the GOP has stayed laser focused on restricting the rights of everyday Americans. It contains a provision that prevents health care nonprofits like Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion care provider, from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for one year for ANY services – even those not related to abortion. Mary Ziegler, a professor at UC Davis School of Law who focuses on the history and politics of reproduction, healthcare and conservatism, explains how the new law could limit your ability to access health care and threaten Planned Parenthood.
And in headlines: Trump announced the U.S. will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine, a bunch of states sued the Trump administration for withholding money for after-school care and English language programs, and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he'll stay in the race to be New York City's next mayor.
MAGA’s Epstein revolt keeps growing — and despite Donald Trump’s pleas, it doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. Elected officials get their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz” and report seeing “disturbing, vile conditions.” Trump reverses his stance on Ukraine, issuing Putin a 50-day ultimatum. Favreau and Tommy break down the Jeffrey Epstein drama that erupted at the Turning Point USA Summit over the weekend; Trump’s new tariff threats against Russia, the European Union, and Brazil; and a new court ruling that could upend ICE operations in Los Angeles. They also discuss the timing of Biden’s New York Times autopen interview and J.D. Vance’s weekend trip to Disneyland, which featured an embarrassing video of the vice president attempting to run.
