The Daily - Two Years Later, Israel’s Last Hostages Return
The Israeli military said on Monday that it had received the 20 remaining living hostages released by Hamas under the terms of the cease-fire deal.
Rachel Abrams speaks to families of those hostages, and to other Israelis, about the long-anticipated moment, and Isabel Kershner, a Times reporter who covers Israel and Palestine, discusses why the hostages have been such a crucial factor in efforts to end the war.
Guest: Isabel Kershner, a reporter for The New York Times in Jerusalem, covering Israeli and Palestinian affairs.
Background reading:
- Read live coverage of the hostages’ return and prisoner swap.
- Why now? The lost chances to reach a hostage deal, and a cease-fire, months ago.
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Start Here - Israel’s Hostages Come Home
Israeli hostages return from Gaza, as President Trump travels to the Mideast to cement the end to the war in Gaza. Meanwhile, the president starts following through on a threat to lay off government workers. And an explosion at a Tennessee munitions plant leaves 16 people dead.
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Start the Week - Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes
Of the 7,000 languages estimated to exist, half will have disappeared by the end of this century. That’s the stark warning from the Director of the Endangered Languages Archive, Mandana Seyfeddinipur. The evolution of languages, and their rise and fall, is part of human history, but the speed at which this is happening today is unprecedented. Mandana will be appearing at the inaugural Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages at the Barbican in October.
A sense of loss also runs through Sverker Sörlin’s love letter to snow. The professor of Environmental History in Stockholm writes about the infinite variety of water formulations, frozen in air, in ‘Snö: A History’ (translated by Elizabeth DeNoma), and his fears about the vanishing white landscapes of his youth.
In the Arctic the transformation from frozen desert into an international waterway is gathering pace. Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London and with co-author Mia Bennett sets out the fight and the future of the Arctic in ‘Unfrozen’. While territorial contest and resource exploitation is causing tensions within the region, there is also potential for new ways of working, from Indigenous governance to subsea technologies.
Producer: Katy Hickman Assistant Producer: Natalia Fernandez
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Year 1925
If you look at the grand sweep of human history, there are centuries where seemingly little happens, and there are decades where centuries take place.
The first 25 years of the 20th century were one of the most intense periods of change in history.
Empires fell, social norms were overturned, science and technology made radical advances, and the world experienced its greatest war ever.
Learn more about the world in the year 1925 and how much it changed since 1900 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.13.25
Alabama
- Congressman Moore says government shutdown hurts Dems in the long run
- Lt. Gov. Ainsworth calls out AHSAA for doubling down against state law
- Central AL Water Board to hold special meeting this Tuesday in Birmingham
- Four men arrested for sex trafficking in Daphne, as part of sting operation
- ALDOT report shows decrease in 2024 for roadway accidents and fatalities
- Family in Wiregrass gets kidney transplant for 8 year old with stage 4 failure
National
- President Trump is in Israel to take part in finalizing peace deal re: Gaza
- Trump calls on Admin to find ways to pay US military during shutdown
- Dept of Ed cutting one fifth of its workforce, 460 employees let go
- GA Superior Court judge resigns after intoxication outside of strip club
- 82 year old Joe Biden to begin 5 weeks of radiation for prostate cancer
- Trump to award the Medal of Freedom posthumously to Charlie Kirk
Opening Arguments - The Supreme Court Case That Stopped School Integration
OA1198 - In this very special episode, Matt catches up with his Constitutional law professor for the first time in 23 years! We follow up with our closer look at the science behind Brown v Board (OA1186) with University of Michigan Law professor Michelle Adams, who takes us through the fascinating and ultimately tragic story of how the promise of Brown ended twenty years later in the struggle to overcome de facto segregation in her hometown of Detroit. Professor Adams has literally written the book on this subject, and if you enjoyed this conversation be sure to pick up her recent masterwork The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North.
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“Mapping Inequality,” University of Richmond (interactive maps of redlining in major US cities)
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NBN Book of the Day - Madeleine Chalmers, “French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn” (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary 'nonhuman turn' in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze.
Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book explores technology as a source of subject matter and conceptual metaphors, but also probes how ideas and words are modes of technicity through which we shape and reshape the world. Fusing literature, philosophy, and theology, it offers readers new contexts - and questions - for the egalitarian ontological commitments of contemporary post- and nonhuman thinking.
Guest Dr. Madeleine Chalmers is a lecturer in French studies at the University of Leicester in the UK, and holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. Dr. Chalmers is the recipient of or shortlisted for a number of prestigious essay prizes, and has written numerous articles as well on topics ranging from modernist authors to automation and the idea of “bricolage,” as well as editing a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies on “French Perspectives on Conflict” in 2022.
Host Gina Stamm is Associate Professor of French at the University of Alabama with research focusing on speculative literatures of metropolitan France and the Francophone Caribbean, from surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, as well as the translator of the novels Mevlido's Dreams and The Inner Harbour.
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Talk Python To Me - #523: Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python
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Strict Scrutiny - Will SCOTUS Allow Conversion Therapy for Minors?
Leah, Melissa, and Kate are back in business, breaking down this term’s first week of arguments at SCOTUS, including a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors. Also covered: the indictment of New York’s Attorney General Letitia James, the continuing legal fights against Trump’s efforts to send the National Guard into Portland and Chicago, and Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi’s pugnacious testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Then, Kate and Leah speak with Yale Law Professor John Fabian Witt about his book The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America, which chronicles how philanthropist Charles Garland bankrolled progressive causes through his American Fund for Public Service.
- If you want to learn more about Buck v. Bell (the 1927 case Justice Alito referenced in the Chiles arguments), listen to our deep dive from 2020
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Leah: Protest videos from Portland and Chicago; The Sentimental Garbage podcast on The Life of a Showgirl
Kate: Writers & Lovers by Lily King, Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner; Red Clover Ranch in Wisconsin; wine and cider from Las Mujeres
Melissa: Vision & Justice; Miss Toy Poodle on Instagram
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