Rob explores country icon Shania Twain’s crossover hit “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” by discussing her pioneering within and outside of Nashville as well as her professional and personal relationship with producer Mutt Lange.
This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music.
We continue “Presidential Month” with the second set of readings - this time on Jahn Adams - from the forthcoming (in May) “The Words That Made Us.” Adams’ unique combination of bombast, verbosity, grandiloquence, ubiquity, and insecurity, makes him an author’s dream. It also left him extraordinarily thin-skinned, and the notorious Sedition Act was the result. Akhil and Andy take a grand tour of Adams’ constitutional misadventures.
Jury selection in the highly anticipated trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began Tuesday after being delayed amid an effort to gain clarity on the potential of a third-degree murder charge. Chauvin faces charges in the killing of George Floyd last Memorial Day.
Jamiles Lartey, who reports on criminal justice and policing for The Marshall Project, explains the delay.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing the family of George Floyd, argues that civil suits could deter police violence — even if settlements aren't accompanied by a criminal conviction.
On March 2, 2021 the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. The questions before the court were: first, whether Arizona’s out-of-precinct policy, which does not count provisional ballots cast in person on Election Day outside of the voter’s designated precinct, violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act; and, second, whether Arizona’s ballot-collection law, which permits only certain persons (i.e., family and household members, caregivers, mail carriers and elections officials) to handle another person’s completed early ballot, violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act or the 15th Amendment. Derek Muller, Professor of Law at University of Iowa's College of Law, joins us today to discuss this case's oral argument.
Today's podcast takes up the question of whether Bernie Sanders could have been as functionally left-wing as president as Joe Biden is being. And what is this game in which liberals create culture wars and then say conservatives are crazy for reacting to them? Give a listen.
Immigration officials struggle to cope with over 3200 unaccompanied minors at the border. Crisis talks at Buckingham Palace. One year in, concern about the effects of remote learning. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Our special guest this week is the CHamoru activist attorney and writer Julian Aguon. Julian calls in from Guam to talk about his new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light, which comes out at the end of the month. (Pre-order it for you and a friend!)
Julian reads from the book and talks about:
* Developing his voice as a writer and mixing genres: from poetry to political commentary to personal essay;
* Guam/CHamoru identity and attempts to build solidarity with other colonized and indigenous peoples across the world;
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With flood risk increasing and flood insurance rates likely following suit, it seems like there's got to be a better way to tackle the challenge.
For example: could we make our homes float when the water comes?
This week we talk to an architect who has devoted her professional life to that question, and we visit a Louisiana community where some people have decided that it makes more sense to temporarily float a house than to elevate it on stilts.
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In the early hour of March 18, 1990, two police officers enter Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The problem was, they weren’t police officers. They were thieves.
In a little over an hour, they stole 13 valuable works of art which had a combined value of over $500 million dollars.
It was the largest robbery in American history.
Learn more about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
