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Who will be able to cast a vote in Texas? And will Texans be able to figure that out before election day -- or after?
Guest: Emma Platoff, justice and politics reporter for the Texas Tribune.
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In January 2020, the UK became the first country to leave the European Union after a troubled 47-year membership.
What was at the core of the country’s semi-detachment to the EU? Was the UK’s eventual inevitable or was it a tragedy of errors and misunderstandings borne of divergent political cultures? What does the future hold for the relationship?
In his new book Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit (Oxford UP, 2020), Stephen Wall provides unique insight with this narrative political history, having served in the foreign office from 1968, worked for two prime ministers, and ended his career as the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels then as head of the European policy for Tony Blair.
Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors.
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The news to know for Thursday, October 8th, 2020!
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VP Debate Recap: WaPo, Politico, WSJ, AP
Trump Returns to Oval Office: Reuters, CBS News, NY Times, Trump Tweet
White House Outbreak: ABC News, WaPo, USA Today, NBC News
COVID-19 Cases Rising in 39 States: USA Today, Johns Hopkins
Wisconsin to Activate Field Hospital: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, AP, Reuters
Hurricane Warning in Louisiana: Weather Channel, CNN, WaPo, AP, NHC
Hottest September on Record: NY Times, NBC News, Reuters
History-Making Nobel Prize in Chemistry: CBS News, AP, NY Times
Facebook Bans Post-Election Political Ads: The Verge, CNBC, Politico, Axios, Facebook
Slack Getting Instagram-like Stories: The Verge, Engadget, 9to5Mac
Drive-In Movies will now Qualify for 2021 Oscars: USA Today, Variety, Deadline
Thing to Know Thursday: What Happens if a Presidential Candidate Dies? AP, WaPo, Vox
Last night was the first and only vice presidential debate, with Senator Kamala Harris and VP Mike Pence facing off. Their conversation covered police killings of Black Americans, Trump’s response to the pandemic, Roe v. Wade, and more. We discuss a debate that was a lot more measured than the last one, but still very frustrating.
Trump went back to the Oval Office yesterday and released another long-winded video in which he said contacting COVID-19 was a “blessing from God” and described the antibody cocktail he received as a “cure.” Outside of DC, there are still over 40,000 new cases being identified daily, with the Dakotas and Wisconsin as particular hot spots.
And in headlines: George Floyd killer Derek Chauvin is released on $1 million bail, a Greek neo-fascist political party is found guilty of running a criminal organization, and SNL pays their audience.
If you've been watching The Vow on HBO (or any number of other cult related shows) you may have been wondering how cults work - why people join, and how cults hang onto their members. There is a lot of psychology behind it, so who better to help break it down than our evo psych expert Lindsey Osterman!
Today's Daily Signal Podcast features an interview from the great “Problematic Women” podcast. As Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett prepares for Senate hearings next week, many are wondering whether she’ll again face harsh questions about her Catholic faith.
Mary Vought, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund and wife of Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins us to explain why this line of questioning is unconstitutional. Her husband, she recalls, faced similar scrutiny in his own Senate confirmation hearing.
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Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss the internet’s connection with neoliberalism, China’s protectionist measures to develop its own tech industry, and how the new tensions between the United States and China are leading Silicon Valley to embrace nationalism.
JS Tan is a former tech worker and writer. He also started Collective Actions in Tech. He recently wrote articles about the tech angle on the Cold War for Foreign Policy and Trump’s attempted TikTok ban for Jacobin. Follow JS on Twitter as @organizejs.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.
Find out more about Harbinger Media Network and follow it on Twitter as @harbingertweets. You can also find Kino Lefter on Twitter.
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On the Gist, a vice presidential debate starring plexiglass.
In the interview, Mike hosts a roundtable discussion with journalist Richard Kreitner and Vox’s Matthew Yglesias to talk about how each of their new books address the problem of an ever-increasing American population. They debate if the U.S. should split into more manageable nations, or if the country should keep pushing population growth. Yglesias’ book is One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Big, and Kreitner’s latest is Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union.
In the spiel, Delco, South Philly, and NY tri-state area Italian Americans for Joe Biden.
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