Month: September 2021

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Putsch back: Africa’s latest coup in Guinea

It is unclear whether better governance lies ahead after a military takeover; what is certain is that Africa’s unwelcome trend of defenestrations has returned. We ask why. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, thought it a good time to shore up his party’s mandate; as election day nears that plan looks shaky. And the rise and fall of Georgia’s sex-selective abortions.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Atomic Bombs and Two-Piece Swimsuits (Encore)

On the week of July 1, 1946, there were two explosions that shook the world. One was a physical explosion and the other was cultural. These two events, seemingly unrelated, are now linked forever due to the circumstances of that week. Learn more about what an atomic bomb test and a two-piece swimsuit have in common, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The NewsWorthy - Tropical Storm Mindy, Unvaxxed Go Unpaid & NFL Season Starts- Thursday, September 9th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, September 9th, 2021!

What to know about another major storm hitting the U.S.

Also, what a new study says about how many people really had COVID-19 even if they didn't know it. 

Plus, which company is putting unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave, how Twitter has created a version of Facebook Groups, and what's different about the new NFL season starting today. 

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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The Daily Signal - Recalling Governors: A History of Voters Who Had Enough

Voters in 20 states have the option of tossing their governor out of office before the end of his or her term.


Still, since 1921, gubernatorial recalls have made it to the ballot in only three states—North Dakota, California, and Wisconsin. However, recalling local officials and state legislators has been more common.


The concept of recalling politicians commonly is thought of as part of the progressive movement of the early 20th century. But the debate over recall goes back much further, and states do it differently.


"Some have what's called a political recall law, like California, like Wisconsin, like Arizona, where you could do it for whatever reason you want to," Joshua Spivak, an authority on recall elections, says. "Other states have a very severe limit and those states ... rarely have recalls or have many fewer recalls, and then have almost none on the state level."


Spivak, senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College in New York, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the history of recall elections just days before California holds another one. Spivak is the author of a new book on the topic, "Recall Elections: From Alexander Hamilton to Gavin Newsom."


We also cover these stories:

  • America is on track to default on the national debt if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling by mid-October, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns. 
  • Top Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee express concern over the fate of Americans and Afghan allies stranded in Afghanistan.
  • Workers remove a large statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, capital of the Confederacy.


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Short Wave - For Successful Wildfire Prevention, Look To The Southeast

Another destructive fire season has Western states searching for ways to prevent it. As climate correspondent Lauren Sommer reports, some answers might lie in the Southeastern U.S. The region leads the country in setting controlled fires — burns to clear vegetation that becomes the fuel for extreme fires.

Read more of Lauren's reporting on wildfire prevention.
(https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/1029821831/to-stop-extreme-wildfires-california-is-learning-from-florida)

And check out our previous episode on cultural burns here.
(https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018886770/managing-wildfire-through-cultural-burns)

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Courage in the Face of Book Burners

Abigail Shrier is a lawyer, a reporter and author of Irreversible Damage. One way to describe her book would be: controversial. She has been accused of spreading misinformation by GLAAD. A prominent ACLU lawyer called for her book to be banned. A favorable review of the book in Science-Based Medicine ignited an online mob, which led to the journal disappearing that first review and replacing it with a negative one. Amazon and Target have also been pressured to stop carrying Shrier's book.


But it hasn’t worked. Despite being ignored by outlets like the New York Times Book Review, Irreversible Damage is an enormous bestseller. Some readers felt so passionately about this book that they took out billboards advertising it on their own dime.


Both the subject that Abigail writes about and the treatment of her book deserve your attention.

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Consider This from NPR - Delta Surge Slows Recovery As Parts Of Pandemic Safety Net Disappear

Last week's jobs report for the month of August show signs the delta surge is slowing the economic recovery, just as some pandemic safety net programs disappear. The Supreme Court recently struck down a federal eviction moratorium, and supplemental pandemic unemployment benefits expired on Monday.

NPR's chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley explains what that could mean for the pace of the recovery.

With a federal eviction ban no longer in effect, renters could tap into billions of dollars in federal rental assistance authorized by Congress. But there's a problem: states have been slow to get that money into programs that can distribute it to tenants and landlords. NPR's Laurel Wamsley reports on one effort to speed things up in Tennessee.

Additional reporting in this episode from NPR's Chris Arnold, who's been covering evictions during the pandemic.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The SEC Threatens to Sue Coinbase but Coinbase Is Fighting Back

According to the company, the SEC has threatened to sue over the not-yet-launched Coinbase Lend product.

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW briefly covers yesterday’s bitcoin price crash and why it was driven by market structure more than news. The main topic focuses on revelations from Coinbase that after months of engagement around its upcoming Lend product, the SEC is now threatening to sue. NLW examines the controversy from five dimensions:

  • The argument for and against lending as a security
  • The SEC’s pattern of regulation by litigation
  • How the SEC is rewarding bad actors by punishing compliance
  • The concerning surveillance implications of one of the SEC’s requests 
  • Why these strong-arm tactics are doomed 


Should Coinbase take the battle to court? 

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