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NBN Book of the Day - Mical Raz, “Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way” (UNC Press, 2020)
In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio, urged abusive parents to seek help.
Support groups for parents, including Parents Anonymous, proliferated across the country to deal with the seemingly burgeoning crisis. At the same time, an ever-increasing number of abused children were reported to child welfare agencies, due in part to an expansion of mandatory reporting laws and the creation of reporting hotlines across the nation.
In Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way (University of North Carolina Press Books, 2020), Mical Raz examines this history of child abuse policy and charts how it changed since the late 1960s, specifically taking into account the frequency with which agencies removed African American children from their homes and placed them in foster care. Highlighting the rise of Parents Anonymous and connecting their activism to the sexual abuse moral panic that swept the country in the 1980s, Raz argues that these panics and policies--as well as biased viewpoints regarding race, class, and gender--played a powerful role shaping perceptions of child abuse. These perceptions were often directly at odds with the available data and disproportionately targeted poor African American families above others.
Claire Clark is a medical educator, historian of medicine, and associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine. She teaches and writes about health behavior in historical context.
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What A Day - MTG Get Off The Air
The House voted to strip Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments for spreading conspiracy theories and endorsing violence against Democrats on social media.
President Biden announced that the United States will end its support of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen. A war that has helped create what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. We spoke to California Representative Ro Khanna about the decision, what led to it, and what it means for progressives and activists who want their voices heard on issues of US foreign policy.
And in headlines: McKinsey to pay states nearly $600 million for its role in the opioid crisis, another voting tech company sues conspiracy-mongering Trump allies, and Trump won’t testify in his Senate impeachment trial.
The Daily Signal - A New Look at Thomas Sowell, ‘Great Black Intellectual’ Ignored by Left
Thomas Sowell is considered by many to be one of the most influential and brilliant minds of the past half-century. He is most famous for his work as an economist, but is also a bestselling author, syndicated columnist, historian, and academic.
Yet he hasn't received much recognition. "When people talk about the great black intellectuals today, you hear names like Henry Louis Gates at Harvard or Cornel West ... or today you hear Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi," says Jason Riley, a journalist, scholar, and member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.
"But in my view, Tom has written circles around those guys and is much broader in subjects that he's covered as well as much deeper and his analysis is much more rigorous than those guys'," Riley says.
A new documentary, “Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World,” tells the story of Sowell’s life and how his logic and intellect have impacted society.
Riley, who narrates the film, joins the show to discuss the documentary and the personal impact Sowell has had on his own life.
You can watch the full-length documentary here or by visiting SowellFilm.com.
Plus, John Cooper, associate director of The Heritage Foundation’s Institute Communications and a big football fan, joins us to talk about what we can expect to see during Super Bowl LV this weekend.
We also cover these stories:
- Democrats urge President Joe Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in debt for student loan borrowers.
- Biden addresses the National Prayer Breakfast.
- Former Vice President Mike Pence is joining The Heritage Foundation as a distinguished fellow.
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Opening Arguments - OA462: Rittenhouse Team Commits Perjury; DC Statehood and Impeachment!
This is a jam-packed, extra-length show that covers as many of the pressing stories in the news that we could cover!
We begin with the breaking news that Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers perjured themselves by filing a fraudulent address in defiance of a court order; we tell you why that's bad and what's next for the domestic terrorist.
After that, it's time for a lengthy breakdown of the DC Statehood Bill, including a discussion of the potential future legal challenges (and solutions!) as well as the timing for when we can expect 2 new Senators to be seated!
Then, it's time to break down former President Trump's (laughably bad) response to the Article of Impeachment. Phew!
Links
- You can check out Rittenhouse's brief in opposition to the bond increase.
- Here is the full text of the DC Statehood Bill introduced by Tom Carper.
- You will not believe how bad the lawyering is in former President Trump's (laughably bad) response to the Article of Impeachment, and you can also read the Inquirer article on Trump's new lawyer, Bruce Castor, who seems like a real peach.
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-And finally, remember that you can email us at openarguments@gmail.com!
The Gist - Stand By Your Lunatic: Republicans Want Marjorie Taylor Greene to Keep her Committees
On the Gist, stripping Majorie Taylor Greene of her committee membership, but Republicans still want to keep her around.
In the Interview, it’s coup talk. It’s part one of an interview with Jonah Blank, an anthropologist, writer, author, and former policy director for South and Southeast Asia on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Blank joins Mike to talk about the Myanmar coup, the default of cheering on populism, conflicts and communal violence, and the threat to democracy. Blank is author of Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, and Mullahs on the Mainframe, and currently based in Singapore. He’ll be back on the show next week.
In the spiel, Representatives Nancy Mace and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are fighting.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Death Penalty’s Days are Numbered
The Trump Administration rushed more than a dozen federal executions in its final months, but the death penalty itself is now historically unpopular even among conservatives. Hannah Cox with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty discusses the broad trend away from support for one form of state-sanctioned killing.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Death Penalty’s Days are Numbered
The Trump Administration rushed more than a dozen federal executions in its final months, but the death penalty itself is now historically unpopular even among conservatives. Hannah Cox with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty discusses the broad trend away from support for one form of state-sanctioned killing.
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Pod Save America - “Party of Q.”
Democrats choose to go big and fast on Covid relief, Republicans choose applause over punishment for Marjorie Taylor Greene, and control of the House could hinge on the redistricting battles set to begin soon. Then journalist Farai Chideya talks to Dan about building a media that’s more representative and better connected to all communities.
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Consider This from NPR - Life On Minimum Wage: Why The Federal Debate Continues
Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is one of President Biden's priorities with the newest COVID-19 relief package. But Republicans say it will hurt small businesses too much and some swing voting Democrats are hesitant too.
The history of the minimum wage in the U.S. is tied closely to civil rights. Ellora Derenoncourt, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says one theme of the 1963 March on Washington was a call for a higher minimum wage.
Many states have a higher minimum wage than the federally mandated $7.25. Arindrajit Dube from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst discusses how those states have fared.
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The history of the minimum wage in the U.S. is tied closely to civil rights. Ellora Derenoncourt, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says one theme of the 1963 March on Washington was a call for a higher minimum wage.
Many states have a higher minimum wage than the federally mandated $7.25. Arindrajit Dube from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst discusses how those states have fared.
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