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Attorney General William Barr has lost the confidence of more than 2,600 former Department of Justice employees. We talked to one of them.
Guest: Donald Ayer, who served in the Department of Justice under George H. W. Bush. Read his piece in the Atlantic, “Bill Barr Must Resign.”
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In which the bizarre 1989 American invasion of Panama kicks off our modern era of on-the-nose Pentagon naming conventions, and John is reminded of a dominatrix, as usual. Certificate #19345.
Attorney General William Barr has lost the confidence of more than 2,600 former Department of Justice employees. We talked to one of them.
Guest: Donald Ayer, who served in the Department of Justice under George H. W. Bush. Read his piece in the Atlantic, “Bill Barr Must Resign.”
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Millions of high school students are trying to decide where to spend the next four years of their lives. For them, and their parents, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell offers a word of advice.
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How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McMaster University, provides a unique sociological analysis of how critics confront the different types of uncertainty associated with their practice. The book explores how reviewers get matched to books, the ethics and etiquette of negative reviews and ‘punching up’, along with professional identities and the future of criticism. The book is packed with interview material, coupled with accessible and easy to follow theoretical interventions, creating a text that will be of interest to social sciences, humanities, and general readers alike.
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Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on two counts of felony sex crimes. The convictions are the culmination of a month-long trial and testimonies brought by six women.
The Supreme Court added a case to its docket on Monday, which will decide whether it was okay for city officials in Philadelphia to end a foster care contract with Catholic Social Services because the agency said it would not accept applications from same-sex couples.
And in headlines: Trump is big in India, marsquakes, and another coronavirus update.
The news to know for Tuesday, February 25th, 2020!
What to know today about the outcome of the Harvey Weinstein trial, why the Dow took a nosedive yesterday, and a major step toward a coronavirus vaccine...
Plus: we're talking NASA, New Orleans and Netflix.
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
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Sources:
Harvey Weinstein Guilty: CNN, FOX News, NYT, THR
Dow Nosedive: WSJ, AP, USA Today, CNBC
COVID-19 Vaccine: WSJ
President Trump in India: ABC News, Bloomberg
Kobe Bryant Memorial: LA Times, CBS Sports, ESPN
Midwest Winter Storm: USA Today, ABC News, AccuWeather
Mardi Gras: CNN, Mardi Gras
Barrier-Breaking Mathematician Dies: NBC News, NYT
NASA Detects Marsquakes: CNN, The Verge
Uber Ads on Cars: Ad Week, Engadget
Free Pancakes: USA Today
Startup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built Startups.com – a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process – and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform.
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