The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Biden Unleashed

Today's podcast takes up the executive order frenzy of the new administration and Biden's embrace of critical race theory and the teachers' unions' view of how no school should reopen (watch this jaw-dropping video from the teachers union in Chicago) until they decide it's safe. And, of course, the looming Senate trial in the Trump impeachment. Give a listen.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

Since the start of the pandemic there have been many warnings that people might die not just from the coronavirus itself, but also if they didn?t seek medical help out of fear that hospitals might be dangerous. Is there any evidence that this has happened? David Spiegelhalter is on the case.

The UK is in lockdown, but tens of thousands of people a day are still testing positive for Coronavirus. Where are they catching it? Grim data on drug deaths in Scotland has been called into question on social media. We ferret out the truth. Plus, what can venomous snakes tell us about the government's plan to increase the number of people self-isolating?

The NewsWorthy - Capitol Police Apology, Push to Reopen Schools & GameStop Skyrockets – Wednesday, January 27th, 2021

The news to know for Wednesday, January 27th, 2021!

We'll tell you about:

  • the first testimony from the acting Capitol Police chief about what happened in the days leading up to the Capitol riot
  • how small-time investors are having a big impact on the stock market
  • the CDC's latest case for bringing kids back in the classroom
  • an internet outage that affected millions of Americans
  • the first fully-private crew taking a vacation to space

Those stories and more in about 10 minutes! 

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Sources:

Capitol Police Leader Testifies: NPR, Politico, NY Times

Most Republicans Reject Impeachment Trial: WSJ, WaPo, AP, FOX News

Record Number of Executive Actions: NY Post, The Economist 

Biden Addresses Racial Inequality: NY Times, WaPo, NBC News, White House

Biden-Putin Call: AP, USA Today, Politico, White House

CDC Urges Return to Classroom: WSJ, NY Times, WaPo, CDC, JAMA

East Coast Internet Outages: AP, Reuters, WSJ

Reddit Sparks Wall Street Trend: Axios, Vox, CNN, CNBC

No One Elected to Baseball HOF: ESPN, USA Today, MLB, Fox News

First Space Tourists Introduced: AP, The Verge, Scientific American

Work Wednesday: Pharmacy Jobs Spike: Axios, CNBC, WSJ

More or Less: Behind the Stats - Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect

Since the start of the pandemic there have been many warnings that people might die not just from the coronavirus itself, but also if they didn?t seek medical help out of fear that hospitals might be dangerous. Is there any evidence that this has happened? David Spiegelhalter is on the case.

The UK is in lockdown, but tens of thousands of people a day are still testing positive for Coronavirus. Where are they catching it? Grim data on drug deaths in Scotland has been called into question on social media. We ferret out the truth. Plus, what can venomous snakes tell us about the government's plan to increase the number of people self-isolating?

Short Wave - What The Spread Of Coronavirus Variants Means For The U.S.

Different versions of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are emerging. Some are spreading quickly around the world, others more slowly — but several have the public health community and researchers worried because they are behaving differently than the older version of the coronavirus. Maddie talks with NPR science correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff about the coronavirus variant first identified in the UK in late 2020 — they discuss how big of a deal it is, how vaccines may be affected, and what needs to happen to slow its spread.

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The Daily Signal - Why Biden’s Immigration Policy Will Harm Americans and Migrants Alike

A migrant caravan began moving toward America’s southern border after the Biden administration announced a pause in deportations for 100 days. 


A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday temporarily blocked Biden’s decision to suspend deportations, pending arguments. The president's immigration policy, such as the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, pose a grave threat to America, according to Ana Quintana, a Heritage Foundation senior policy analyst in Latin America and the Western Hemisphere. 


Quintana joins the podcast to explain the likely impact of Biden’s changes to immigration policy. 


We also cover these stories: 


  • President Biden signs four executive actions targeted at ending racial disparities and injustice.  
  • The Senate confirms Antony Blinken as secretary of state.
  • House and Senate Democrats reintroduce legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.


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Amarica's Constitution - Bullets Dodged, Part 2: The Faithless and the Feckless

Continuing our discussion of the various disasters that might have befallen America around the election, this time we explore the period after the election and before the Electoral College, and then as Congress prepared to meet and certify the vote. The toxic mixture of the Greeley precedent and Faithless Electors was rendered a veritable Chernobyl by a 2020 Supreme Court decision that Akhil finds, shall we say, imperfect. Life imitates art ("The West Wing," again)? Actually, it's more frightening than that.