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The late, great David Bowie was not just one of the most influential musicians of the past 50 years. He was also brilliant at hedging financial risk. In her book An Economist Walks Into A Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, economist Allison Schrager explains how Bowie turned his song catalog into a bond.
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Five states hold primaries today, including Minnesota, where Rep. Ilhan Omar is running to keep her seat in Congress. The elections come a week after another progressive, Cori Bush, won a major upset in her race against a longterm incumbent in Missouri. We speak to Bush about her path to politics and check in on Justice Democrats, the political group that backed Bush, Omar, and a handful of other progressive Democrats since 2017. Read our full interview with Cori Bush at crooked.com/articles/cori-bush-democratic-party/
Lebanon Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation yesterday, following mass protests after the chemical explosion in Beirut. Protests continue in the country with demonstrators demanding that other top leaders resign as well. Donate: ImpactLebanon.org
And in headlines: protests in Chicago and Belarus, a big loss for Uber and Lyft, and Nikki Haley tries to cancel popcorn.
To read more of Gideon's reporting on primary races, check out: https://crooked.com/articles/kentucky-underdog-booker/
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Children Coronavirus Infections: Time, GMA, CNN, WaPo, AAP, CDC
Trump on Reopening Schools: The Hill, Business Insider
Trump May Give RNC Speech at Gettysburg: Reuters, AP, Axios, Trump Tweet
Some DNC Speakers Announced: USA Today, WaPo, CNN, DNC
Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Cabinet Resigns: Reuters, Axios, CNN, AP, United Nations
Chicago Shooting & Unrest: Chicago Tribune, NBC News, AP, WSJ
Rare Midwest Storms: AP. The Weather Channel, CNN
Uber, Lyft must Classify Drivers as Employees: Reuters, Axios, NPR, The Verge
McDonald’s Sues Former CEO: NYT, NBC News, Axios
MLB Postpones Another Series: ABC News, AP, ESPN
We leave the Valley and Traci Lords behind; go back to Redondo Beach and to Traci Lords before she was Traci Lords, when she was Nora Kuzma.
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It’s not just statues and American history that are under attack. The most essential ideas from America’s founding are under siege and on trial.
Robert R. Reilly, the director of the Westminster Institute and widely published author, joined “The Right Side of History” podcast to discuss his new book “America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding.”
Reilly discusses the deeper origins of the American Revolution—rooted in Western thought, philosophy, and religion—and explains why America’s current success and survival depends on embracing those ideas rather than abandoning them.
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You can read our story on Rachel and the work she is doing with the React community here.
Nabors' is the author of Animation at Work, which you can find on A Book Apart.
If you want to get a feel for an animated web project Rachel worked on, check out DevToolsChallenger, an interactive site she helped create for Mozilla.
Nabors has digitized a lot of her work, signal boosting members of the React community at Reactjs.org/stories.
Amanda Holmes reads William Wordsworth’s poem, “Tintern Abbey,” formally entitled “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798.” Plus, read her essay on the poem for the Washington Independent Review of Books. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Returning to the show is Randall D. Eliason, a law professor, writer and commentator on corporate and white collar criminal law! We discuss the Flynn case in more depth, as well as a bribery angle on the Roger Stone commutation. Check out Prof. Eliason's Sidebars Blog.
Before that, Andrew has on voting by mail. Nevada has passed a bill AB4 that Trump in challenging in a truly ridiculous way. Find out why!
On the Gist, pronouncing names.
In the interview, Mike is joined by Ed Yong of the Atlantic. As a science writer, not only did he warn of an epidemic in 2018, but he has been covering the coronavirus in a clear and vital way. In his latest piece, “Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die,” Yong articulates how this tragedy could have been prevented, and explains why America isn’t defeating the virus any time soon; it has defeated America.
In the spiel, do Trump’s lies still work?
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