Today’s podcast takes up the fulfillment of what we’ve been warning against—the public-health people are lowering the boom again in a self-defeating effort to control the spread of the COVID variant by controlling the behavior of… the already vaccinated. We take apart the reasons proffered by the CDC director for this bizarre guidance. Then we talk about the shame of the attacks on the Capitol... Source
Fire has always been part of California's landscape. But long before the vast blazes of recent years, Native American tribes held controlled burns that cleared out underbrush, encouraged new plant growth, and helped manage wildfires. It's a tradition that disappeared with the arrival of Western settlers. NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer explains how tribal leaders are trying to restore the practice by partnering up with state officials who are starting to see cultural burns as a way to help bring extreme wildfires under control. (Encore episode)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to extend a subway from San Francisco, not far from Speaker Pelosi’s congressional district, to Silicon Valley, with funding in the Senate’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is calling this Pelosi's Bay Area Boondoggle. Why? Andrzejewski joins a bonus episode of The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss!
Debate over the CDC's new mask guidance. Simone Biles will skip tomorrow's individual competition. Deadly TX chemical leak. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
An international convention devised after the second world war is ill-suited to the refugee crises of today—and countries are increasingly unwilling to meet their obligations. Vancouver’s proposed response to a spate of drug overdoses is a sweeping decriminalisation; we ask whether the plan would work. And the bid to save a vanishingly rare “click language” in Africa.
The term Dark Ages has been used to refer to a period in European history when culture supposedly regressed and civilization was in decline.
The idea of a Dark Ages is one that was prevalent amongst historians for centuries.
But lately, historians have been reconsidering the idea of a Dark Age and questioning if there really was a Dark Age.
Learn more about the Dark Ages and if they were really that dark, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
What to know about emotional testimony from Capitol police officers about what they went through on January 6th and why some lawmakers don't want to see any more hearings like that.
Also, the CDC changed course again. What it now has to say about vaccinated people wearing masks.
Plus, a shocking Olympic exit from the best gymnast in the world, a possible breakthrough in cancer treatment, and some new safety policies for teenagers on Instagram.
"It was surreal," McEnany says of working for the president.
"My first time in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room was as an intern for [President George W.] Bush, as you noted," she says. "Dana Perino was the press secretary, so I watched her go back and forth with the Fox correspondent, ended up interning at Fox, and [then] doing several internships."
"But then, about 10 years later, I was standing at the podium myself, which was surreal, amazing. And I know it was only made possible because Christ had that path for my life even when I couldn't see it."
We also cover these stories on the podcast:
A House select committee holds its first hearing looking into the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The panel includes seven Democrats but only two Republicans—Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
President Joe Biden releases a 21-point immigration-reform plan as the crisis at the southern border intensifies.
Biden meets with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., to discuss how to move forward the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
In these days of Zoom, Professor Amar’s testimony before The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States looks a lot like the old TV show, the Hollywood Squares, and Akhil is in the center square. This is fitting, because his proposal for 18-year terms of active en banc service on the Court is front and center in these hearings. Akhil and Andy review the work done in advance of this testimony, recapitulate the major arguments in the proposal, and look at the Q&A that followed in depth, along with the arguments of other panelists.
