CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 02/25

Moderna tests a COVID booster shot. No charges expected in the Tiger Woods crash. Military families getting help from the food bank. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Hell for Tether: a cryptocurrency crimped

The notionally dollar-pegged “stablecoin” quietly underpins many crypto-market moves. We ask what the currency issuer’s clash with New York authorities means for the wider crypto craze. In many African countries, parliamentarians are asked to fill public-service gaps—at great personal cost. We examine moves toward a fairer forking out of funds. And why physical-education exams are popping up in China.

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Village SquareCast - A Divided Union: Structural Challenges to Bipartisanship

We're bringing back our two favorite former Congressmen who served on opposite sides of the aisle and were repeatedly thwarted by a dysfunctional system when they (wait for it) tried to work across the aisle in Congress. A lot has happened since we chatted with them last time in 2018 — including their consideration of mounting bipartisan ticket for the presidency, and one of them leaving his political party — so we thought it was time to hang out again. Oh and they wrote a book together.

A Divided Union delves deep into ten pressing political challenges that former US Representatives Patrick Murphy and David Jolly (serving on opposite sides of the aisle in Congress) have identified over their multiple terms in Congress and that continue to plague the American electorate today. In an introduction describing their unique paths to Congress, Murphy and Jolly focus in detail on key institutional barriers they faced in Washington in attempting to do the job voters elected them to do. They introduce us to geographic challenges, demographic change, a polarized media, gerrymandering, the role of money in politics, the structure of primary elections, and several other aspects of political life on Capitol Hill. 

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Bay Curious - What Would Happen If Chabot Dam in the East Bay Hills Broke Open?

The question is a simple but alarming one: If the Lake Chabot dam cracked open in a big earthquake, what kind of flooding should the communities below expect? This week's question asker, Hollyann Vickers Keng, has a vested interest in the answer -- she lives there!

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Mountweazels

Copyright is what protects creators from having someone copy and make money off of their work without compensation. However, there are some things like directories or maps which have information that can be difficult to copyright. It’s just presenting information or data which exists out in the real world. Such creators of maps and directories have found unique ways around this problem. Learn more about copyright traps, aka Mountweazels, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The Best One Yet - “If LaCroix cans went public” — Snap’s maps. USPS’ coin toss. Ardagh’s double-trend wave.

Snapchat’s stock is at an all-time high, but the real story here is Snap Maps. The US Postal Service played kingmaker with 2 stocks. And fresh off of bottling your White Claw, Ardagh is going public via SPAC, catching 2 trends at once. $SNAP $GRSV $OSK $WKHS Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis - A Biden Pick in Trouble

After years of policy work in Washington, Neera Tanden is more than qualified to serve as Biden’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget. But her open scorn for conservatives and progressives alike, often expressed through aggressive Twitter barbs, has made her confirmation the most tenuous of the new president’s picks.


Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer.


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Short Wave - The Legacy of Trauma: Can Experiences Leave A Biological Imprint?

Descendants of trauma victims seem to have worse health outcomes. Could epigenetics help explain why? Bianca Jones Marlin and Brian Dias walk us through the field of epigenetics and its potential implications in trauma inheritance.

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NBN Book of the Day - L. Cox Han and C. Heldman, “Madam President?: Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House” (Lynne Rienner, 2020)

Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman, both scholars of gender and politics as well as scholars of the American Presidency, have assembled a wide array of essays[*] to revisit the question about whether “we” are ready for the first female president of the United States, and what the path might look like to arrive at that glass-ceiling shattering event. Cox Han and Heldman had edited a previous version of this concept in 2007 (Rethinking Madam President: Are We Ready for the First Woman in the White House? Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007) and they and their contributing authors had concluded that, in 2007, the United States was not yet ready to give “female presidential candidates a fair run.” 

But much has shifted and changed over the years since the publication of that previous interrogation of this perennial consideration and Madam President? Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2020) revisits this consideration having seen Hillary Clinton as the standard bearer for the Democratic Party in 2016, even while she lost the Electoral College vote to Donald Trump. Cox Han and Heldman, and the contributing authors to Madam President? are evaluating the political landscape following Clinton’s loss and exploring what changed as a result of the presidential race in 2016, including the Women’s Movement/March that came together following Trump’s Inauguration and the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements as well.

The chapters that make up Madam President? Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House cover quite a few different dimensions of presidential politics and gender politics, including examining where female candidates have been able to compete on a more equal playing field with male candidates, such as in their capacity to fundraise, as Victoria Farrar-Myers explains in her chapter on “Money and Candidate Viability.” Other chapters explore the masculine nature of the presidency itself and the difficulty this poses for candidates and for voters. Authors approach this complicated foundation of the American presidency from a variety of perspectives, including Meredith Conroy’s chapter on masculinity and media coverage during the course of the campaign, and Karen Hult’s and Meena Bose’s respective chapters on sex, gender, and leadership within the Executive Branch, and key areas of presidential responsibility. Madam President? helps us think about the newly elected female Vice President, Kamala Harris, and her husband’s role as first spouse. As Cox Han and Heldman explain during the course of our conversation, there is some cause of optimism that we may already be seeing the first woman president of the United States, it just may be a few years before she takes office.

Lilly J. Goren is professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. She is co-editor of the award winning book, Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012), as well as co-editor of Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Email her comments at lgoren@carrollu.edu or tweet to @gorenlj.

[*] Full disclosure: I am a contributing co-author, with Linda Beail, of one of these essays.

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The NewsWorthy - Third Vaccine Safe, USPS ‘Death Spiral’ & ‘Frasier’ Reboot – Thursday, February 25th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, February 25th, 2021!

We're talking about:

  • the FDA's review of a third COVID-19 vaccine that could be available to the American public by next week
  • what the leader of the U.S. Postal Service says he needs to make sure the service doesn't die
  • why you could get a check from your state government
  • another reboot of an iconic sitcom coming
  • what to know before you plan a spring break getaway

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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Sources:

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Analysis: WaPo, AP, Reuters, FDA

First COVAX Deliveries: BBC, NY Times, Axios, UN

Biden Reverses Green Card Ban: NY Times, Axios, Reuters, Politico, White House

NY Gov Sexual Harassment Accusation: Politico, NBC News, WSJ, Medium

USPS Calls for Reform: NPR, ABC News, Axios, Reuters, USPS

States Pass COVID Aid: AP, Axios, Business Insider

Dow Closes at Record: WSJ, Business Insider, AP 

GameStop Shares Surge Again: The Verge, CNBC, FOX Business

Fry’s Electronics Closes: AP, The Verge, NY Times, Fry’s

Record Number of LGBTQ Americans: CBS News, WaPo, USA Today, Gallup

‘Frasier’ Revival in the Works: The Verge, Variety, Hollywood Reporter

Thing to Know Thursday: Planning a Spring Break Trip: USA Today, Chicago Tribune, WaPo