Month: November 2018

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The Gist - Cult Classic

On The Gist, Nancy Pelosi and new House leadership.

Then, the self-help organization known as NXIVM had thousands of paying customers, but only some were involved in the cultish operations that, once exposed, brought it crashing down. In Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, host Josh Bloch follows one of the company’s unknowing recruiters, who disavowed the group and became central to the ongoing FBI charges against its founder, Keith Raniere. We also hear from Susan Dones, another former member of NXIVM.

In the Spiel, Brexit is back.

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Bay Curious - ‘Frisco’: It’s Not Just for Tourists

Frisco is the nickname we love to hate. How did this once widely-used name fall out of favor?


Reported by Vinnee Tong. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Paul Lancour and Ryan Levi. Additional support from Julie Caine, Ethan Lindsey, Katie McMurran, Suzie Racho and David Weir. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question or sign up for our newsletter at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Bitcoin Cash War Begins


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New Books in Native American Studies - Yael Ben-zvi, “Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories” (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)

Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Addressing this lacuna, Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories (Dartmouth College Press, 2018), expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that Indigenous and African-descended peoples articulated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As settlers began to distrust the entitlements that the English used to justify their rule, the colonized and the enslaved formulated coherent logics of freedom and belonging. By anchoring rights in nativity, they countered settlers’ attempts to dispossess and disenfranchise them. Drawing on a plethora of texts, including petitions, letters, newspapers, and official records, Yael Ben-zvi, American Studies Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, analyzes nativity’s unsettling potentials and its discursive and geopolitical implications. She shows how rights were constructed in relation to American, African, and English spaces, and explains the obstacles to historic solidarity between Native American and African American struggles.

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Ryan Tripp (Ph.D., History) is currently an adjunct in History at Los Medanos Community College and Southern New Hampshire University.

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The NewsWorthy - Criminal Justice Reform, Uber Rewards & Word of the Year (+ Talking CA Wildfires with Leanne Suter) – Thursday, November 15th, 2018

The news to know for Thursday, November 15th, 2018!

Today: President Trump shows his support for a bipartisan bill and even Fox News sides with CNN in a lawsuit.

Plus: the CMAs, Uber's new rewards program and the 2018 'Word of the Year.' 

Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes.

Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you. 

Then, hang out after the news for "Thing to Know Thursday." This week's bonus interview takes you behind-the-scenes of what it's like for ABC7 Los Angeles reporter Leanne Suter to cover the California wildfires and the stories she'll never forget. 

 Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com to read more about any of the stories mentioned (just click 'Episodes').

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