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Pfizer announces its COVID-19 vaccine is very effective and safe in kids as young as 12. Details on a $2 trillion roadmap for new jobs. Young witnesses recount George Floyd's final moments. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Wednesday, March 31, 2021:
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The tepid debut of Britain’s dominant food-delivery app signals doubts not only about the gig economy but also about London’s ability to lure tech-firm listings. Chinese officials love to deploy “cloud seeding” to water the country’s parched lands, but even if it works, it distracts from better water-management policies. And why tweets so often come back to haunt their authors.
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Most kids in the country aren’t back to school in any way we’d recognize as normal. Republicans have noticed. Now, they’re launching a few trial balloons this year to see if “reopen the schools” can become their next winning campaign slogan.
Guest: Edward-Isaac Dovere, staff writer at the Atlantic. Read his story, “Democrats Are Failing the Schools Test.”
Dovere is the author of the forthcoming book, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump.
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Robert Beshara’s Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021) is a guide through the textual relationship between the work of Sigmund Freud and Edward Said. It is also a valuable handbook in critical psychology that chronicles many works at the intersection of psychoanalysis and decoloniality from around the world. Beshara urges psychoanalytic practitioners to consider the fundamental role of colonial difference in our psychic lives and demonstrates the importance of accounting for unconscious processes in the study of culture and the work of decolonization.
Between April 1st and July 1st, 2021, a 20% discount is applicable across all formats of the book upon checkout on the Palgrave website. The discount code is FreudSaid20
Vira Sachenko is a researcher of culture and psychoanalysis with interests in intellectual history, (de)coloniality, and constructions of femininity. She can be reached at virasachenko@gmail.com
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Sources:
Migrant Facility Crowding: AP, FOX News, CNN, Axios
Rep. Gaetz Under Investigation: Politico, NY Times, AP, WSJ, Rep. Gaetz
Emotional Chauvin Trial Testimony: NY Times, Axios, USA Today, FOX News, Watch Trial Live
NY to Legalize Marijuana: NPR, ABC News, NY Times, DISA, Legal Aid Society, NIDA
Men’s Final Four Decided: CBS Sports, LA Times, ESPN
Women’s Final Four Decided: ESPN, NCAA
All-Civilian Spaceflight Full: NY Times, AP, Florida Today, Inspiration4
Volkswagen Jokes About Name Change: AP, Bloomberg, Reuters, Volkswagen
‘Game of Thrones’ Broadway Show: Hollywood Reporter, EW, CNBC
Work Wednesday: Workers Return, Companies Adapt: NY Times, WSJ, WaPo, Axios, PWC