The U.S. looks poised to exceed its summer peak, when the country averaged as many as 65,000 cases a day for a 10-day stretch in late July. The seven-day average of cases is now more than 69,000, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The situation is similar in Europe, which just logged more new cases than any week so far.
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NPR's Will Stone reports on the growing outbreak in the Midwest, where some hospitals may not be able to handle an influx of COVID-19 patients.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Revisiting Immigration and Crime in Texas
Data from Texas shows that illegal immigrants tend to commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. Alex Nowrasteh explains why puncturing the myth of immigrant crime is so important.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Revisiting Immigration and Crime in Texas
Data from Texas shows that illegal immigrants tend to commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. Alex Nowrasteh explains why puncturing the myth of immigrant crime is so important.
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This Machine Kills - 14. Deus Ex Growth Machina (ft. Aaron Benanav)
We’re joined by Aaron Benanav, author of Automation and the Future of Work, to discuss his excellent and necessary analysis of what the automation discourse gets wrong, the economic history that has led us to where we are now, and the science fiction and utopian ideas that should inspire a post-scarcity world—a world which is not only possible but necessary.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: JPMorgan Launches JPM Coin – Welcome to the Private Currency Era
The investment banking giant says the blockchain hype cycle has moved past inflated expectations and into the realm of being commercially viable.
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Today on the Brief:
- Stocks down; bitcoin up
- Consumer confidence shaky as baking supplies demand grows 3,400%
- Bank for International Settlements and Swiss central bank to test CBDC this year
Our main discussion: JPM Coin.
Initially announced in February 2019, JPMorgan’s JPM Coin is being launched for commercial use. In this episode, NLW looks at:
- The history of private currencies in the U.S.
- Why Libra was a starting gun for both governments and other private corporations
- How JPMorgan intends to make money from JPM Coin
- Why other investment banks might follow
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The World’s Deepest Hole
In 1970, scientists in the Soviet Union set out to drill the deepest hole in the world. They weren’t drilling for oil or gas, they were just drilling for the sake of drilling to see what they could find.
They actually found out quite a lot.
Learn about the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest hole on Planet Earth, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Exorcisms: An Introduction
You're probably familiar with the horror film version of exorcisms: a righteous priest reciting holy verses as a demon-possessed person writhes and exhibits unholy powers. But what are exorcisms, really? How do they function across cultures? Is there any proof that they're real? Join Ben and Matt to find out in this week's Classic episode.
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Hello from Tammy’s snowbank!
This week, we welcome TTSG friend Hua Hsu, a professor at Vassar and a staff writer at The New Yorker, who just wrote an excellent pre-election story: “Are Asian Americans the Last Undecided Voters?” The piece digs into stuff we’ve been obsessing about, on and off the air, including the fuzziness of the Asian American label, the rise of East Asian Republicans, organizing on ethnicity-specific chat apps, the OC, and Asian-Latino “immigrant” identities. Our discussion also complements Andy’s bonus episode with Bernie folks, Brooke Adams and Tobita Chow, from last week. Then, a quick look at the global crisis playing out in Vietnam.
A long episode, but a good one. Big props to listeners who make it all the way through!
0:00 – Why does Hua eat “adult pouches”? Can he bring Jay and Andy over to his side?
13:00 – California Governor Gavin Newsom “tiniest dog-whistled” Asians in the early days of the American pandemic, by blaming transmission on nail salons. Who’s Janet Nguyen, and how did she fight back?
41:00 – “Education and opportunity” are Asian values, right? But are they a sufficient basis for organizing? And are they liberal or conservative, right- or left-wing?
1:05:00 – Do Asian American voters care about foreign policy?
1:26:55 – Maybe Asian American politics can just be, well, politics. How do we make a universalist political program our own?
1:37:55 – You still with us? Tammy gets the guys to talk about the historic, deadly floods in Vietnam, and what they tell us about climate change. What are the overlaps with the Vietnamese economy and the coronavirus? Could the climate catastrophe replicate Asian refugee routes once caused by war?
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* Thursday! “The Gwangju Uprising and Its 40-Year Global History” (Register here.)
* Jay, on musical labor and 30 years of repetition, on This American Life
* Andy, on the “China Virus,” in Feral Atlas
* Tammy, at a Montana gun range, in The New Yorker
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - How Liberals Gaslight: The Courts and the Media
Today's podcast reels in disbelief at the liberal disingenuousness in claiming the Right has violated norms in relation to Supreme Court nominations when the norm violators are...liberals. And then we tackle the ludicrous lengths to which liberal media bias is working to defend Joe Biden even when he might need no defense. Give a listen.
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Uncivil - Introducing Resistance: Is It Too Revolutionary?
Hey Uncivil listeners! We want to share a new show we think you’ll love, made by one of our producers. Resistance is a show about refusing to accept things as they are. Stories from the front lines of the movement for Black lives, told by the generation fighting for change. In this first episode, 22-year-old Chi Ossé goes out to protest and the trajectory of his life is changed forever. If you like this episode, follow now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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