We dig deep into the anthem of the Confederacy, and learn that almost everything we thought we knew about it... was wrong.
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The NewsWorthy - Sessions’s Memory, Digital Pill & Historic Barbie – Wednesday, November 15th, 2017
All the news you need to know for Wednesday, November 15th, 2017!
Today we’re talking changes to the Senate's tax plan, Jeff Sessions testimony and a shooting in California.
Plus: the first digital pill, a controversial Cards of Humanity promo and a new, historic Barbie.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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The Gist - Putting the Con in Economics
President Trump’s top economics adviser is Kevin Hassett, a guy who has made some very bad calls—most notably, his assertion that the Bush tax cuts would make the U.S. economy recession-proof. New Yorker writer Adam Davidson takes us to economics school and parses some of Hassett’s years old gobbledygook. In the Spiel, holding Bill Clinton’s accusers to today’s standards.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Higher Education and Tax Reform
How will elimination of education-related deductions and other tax changes affect higher education? Neal McCluskey comments.
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The NewsWorthy - Senate Race, Blood Pressure Guidelines and Taylor Swift’s Reputation – Tuesday, November 14th, 2017
All the news you need to know for Tuesday, November 14th, 2017!
Today we’re talking about the controversy around Alabama’s Senate seat and the first change to blood pressure guidelines in 14 years.
Plus: Lyft goes outside the U.S., Amazon buys TV rights to The Lord of the Rings and the “World’s Oldest Wine.”
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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The Gist - Prisons of Profit
As America’s prison population surged in the ’80s and ’90s, private prisons were billed as the solution. They were supposed to bring innovations to incarceration and save tax dollars. But as criminal justice expert Lauren-Brooke Eisen tells us, private prisons are no more cost-effective, and the corporations behind them operate in secrecy. Eisen’s book is Inside Private Prisons. In the Spiel, Mike skewers the Republican tax plan.
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The Nod - The Fresh Princess of Bel-Air
Now this is a story all about how the life of actress Karyn Parsons (aka Hilary Banks) got flipped, turned upside down. And we’d like to take a few minutes—just sit right there—and we’ll tell you how she makes Black history movies with flair.
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Pod Save America - “Watch out for falling Keurigs.”
Republicans are divided over whether to support an alleged child molester for the U.S. Senate, Trump gets cranky at the end of his foreign trip, and Congress plows ahead on their plan to cut taxes for the rich and raise them for the middle class. Then Dan Rather joins Jon, Jon, and Tommy to talk about Trump and the media, and DeRay calls in to discuss Republican judicial appointments.
Cato Daily Podcast - How Airlines Compete and How They’re Regulated
Government control over air travel is still onerous, and that can limit both choice and the safety of travel. Gary Leff of the Mercatus Center and the blog View from the Wing discusses the latest fight over air travel.
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Start the Week - Anger and deprivation
'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore'. These are the words of the news anchor-man in the film Network, now adapted for the stage. The director Ivo van Hove tells Francine Stock how this satire on global capitalism and chasing ratings with populist rants has such relevance today.
Composer Nico Muhly also looks to Hollywood, adapting Hitchock's film Marnie - and the novel that inspired it - for the English National Opera. Born into poverty, Marnie becomes trapped in a web of lies and angrily claws her way out.
Anger pervades Darren McGarvey's book, Poverty Safari, as he takes the reader on a journey into Britain's deprived communities to give voice to people who feel misunderstood and unheard. He explores how stress pervades the streets where he was brought up, while the scientist Caroline Relton studies how stress and other environmental factors can be passed down through generations, affecting our genetic make-up.
Producer: Katy Hickman.