The Intelligence from The Economist - Can’t take a hike: more economic turmoil in Turkey
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just does not like interest-rate rises. So he has again sacked a central-bank governor given to imposing them—again, to his own peril. America’s love of free markets extends also to the business of sperm donation; our correspondent discusses the risks that come with so little regulation. And the opera composer who is shaking up stereotypes.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Did Shakespeare Write the Works of Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare is widely considered one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of the English language.
However, over the last two centuries many people have begun to wonder if William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon, England was indeed the person who wrote the works which have been attributed to him.
If you look at the evidence or the lack thereof, they aren’t necessarily crazy for thinking it.
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The Best One Yet - 🎮 “Ready Gamer One” — GameStop’s earnings. GoPuff’s $9B bodega. Hipster antitrust.
For the 1st time since January’s GameStop stock pop, we actually got GameStop’s earnings report. GoPuff hits a $9B valuation for bringing the bodega to you. And Lina Kahn is bringing the “hipster antitrust movement” to the 4 tech companies you use most.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Migrant Families Are Still Being Separated
After four years of President Trump’s harsh immigration policies, many advocates for Central American migrants welcomed a change in administration. But after two months in office, President Biden has given a clear message to people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border: “don’t come.” Still, thousands of people, including an increasing number of unaccompanied children, are making the trek and forcing Biden to face his first big immigration test.
Guest: Adolfo Flores, national security for immigration correspondent at Buzzfeed.
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Short Wave - Meet The ‘Glacier Mice’
(Encore episode.) In 2006, while hiking around the Root Glacier in Alaska, glaciologist Tim Bartholomaus encountered something strange and unexpected on the ice — dozens of fuzzy, green moss balls. It turns out, other glaciologists had come across glacial moss balls before and lovingly called them "glacier mice."
NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce and Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong talk about glacial moss balls and delve into the mystery of how they seem to move as a herd.
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NBN Book of the Day - Sean R. Roberts, “The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority” (Princeton UP, 2020)
There are currently eleven million Uyghurs living in China, but more than one million are being held in so-called reeducation camps. A cultural genocide is taking place under the guise of counterterrorism.
In this profound and explosive book, Sean Roberts shows how China is using the US-led global war on terror to erase and replace Uyghur culture and persecute this ethnic minority in what has become the largest program of mass detention and surveillance in the world. In The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority, Roberts contextualises these harms in the PRC's colonial legacy of the region. He demonstrates how the Chinese government was able to brand Uyghur dissent as a dangerous terrorist threat which had links with al-Qaeda. He argues that a nominal militant threat was a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'; the limited response to more than a decade of harsh repression and surveillance.
This is the humanitarian catastrophe that the world needs to know about now. Beyond the destruction of Uyghur identity and culture, there are profound implications for the global community by this cultural genocide.
Dr. Sean R. Roberts is an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director, International Development Studies Program at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
He is is a cultural anthropologist with extensive applied experience in international development work. Roberts conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Uyghur people of Central Asia and China during the 1990s, and has published extensively on this community in scholarly journals and collected volumes. In 1996 he produced a documentary film on the community entitled Waiting for Uighurstan. You can find him on twitter at @robertsreport
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What A Day - Colorado Mourns Again
Boulder police have identified a suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting in Colorado, which killed 10 people. President Biden addressed the nation and called on Congress to not wait "another minute" before working to act gun control laws, including a ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines.
An independent oversight board accused Astrazeneca of choosing data that was “most favorable” instead of the most updated and complete info.
And in headlines: attacks on AAPI people continued in New York City in spite of protests, jurors selected for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, and Prince Harry scores his first 9-5 gig.
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The NewsWorthy - Gun Laws Debate, Mail Delays Possible & Marvel’s Next Streaming Debut- Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
The news to know for Wednesday, March 24th, 2021!
We'll tell you about:
- what investigators are saying about the gunman in the Boulder, Colorado grocery store shooting
- how lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are reacting as the debate over gun laws intensifies
- millions more Americans becoming eligible for COVID-19 vaccines
- what new research found about the "quarantine 15"
- why the U.S. Postal Service may be slowing down the mail
- the next big Marvel movie coming to streaming the same day as theaters
Those stories and more in about 10 minutes!
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Boulder Shooting Investigation: Denver Post, AP, WSJ, NY Times
Gun Reform Debate: Politico, USA Today, Reuters, NBC News
More States Open Vaccine Eligibility: NY Times, CNN, WaPo, CDC
ACA Enrollment Extended: WSJ, Axios, NBC News, White House
Pandemic Weight Gain: NY Times, CBS News, JAMA, APA, The Atlantic
USPS Plan to Stem Losses: AP, Reuters, NBC News, CBS News, USPS
Prince Harry Startup Job: WSJ, NBC News, WaPo, BetterUp
Straight-to-Streaming Movie Releases: USA Today, Variety, The Verge, Disney
Record-Breaking Banksy Painting: CNN, The Hill, BBC, Christie’s
Work Wednesday: Companies Refrain from Firing Workers: WSJ
The Daily Signal - ‘We Warned Them’: Trump Immigration Official Talks Border Crisis
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades.
On top of that, both Fox and NBC reported that illegal aliens are being released into the U.S. without court dates for asylum request hearings, but on Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that isn't true.
What’s really going on at the border?
"They inherited a system that worked," said Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Trump administration, adding:
[The Biden administration] inherited a system with cooperation with Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries, the 'Remain in Mexico’ policy, the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Northern Triangle countries. We ended catch and release.We had got these countries together to really look and act and work together as the regional crisis that it is, and we saw a significant reduction in the flow, as well as we had eliminated an incredible incentive, catch and release.
Morgan, now a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss all this and more.
"Last month, in the month of February, they saw over 100,000 apprehensions of people trying to illegally enter the border," he said.
I think in March, you're going to see that number skyrocket—120,000, 130,000, if not reaching the numbers at the height of the crisis that we saw in 2019.We also cover these stories:
- A 21-year-old man is charged by Colorado law enforcement in the shooting rampage that left 10 dead in Boulder.
- Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says the Senate will take action on gun control after deadly shootings in Boulder and Atlanta.
- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has harsh words for Democrats attempting to unseat Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, who won by six votes over Democrat Rita Hart.
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