Month: December 2021

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Future Of Roe v. Wade Hangs On Today’s Supreme Court Arguments In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

On the heels of the opening oral arguments in the biggest challenge to Roe v. Wade that has come before the Supreme Court, Reset asks local leaders and experts about their reactions.
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Consider This from NPR - A Supreme Court Case That Could Upend Roe v. Wade

Getting an abortion in Mississippi has never been easy, but it hasn't been impossible. Now, a case before the Supreme Court that centers on a clinic in Mississippi could upend abortion rights for pregnant people across the country.

Today, the conservative-leaning court heard arguments in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The clinic, which is the only abortion provider remaining in Mississippi, is challenging a 2018 state law that bans termination after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the court upholds the law, it would reverse its own precedent by allowing states to interfere with the right to abortion at that stage of pregnancy.

NPR Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, SCOTUS Blog's Tom Goldstein, and Florida State University Law Professor Mary Ziegler parse the arguments and weigh in on the possibilities on how the justices could rule.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Long Strange Journey of Facebook’s Libra Project

With David Marcus leaving, what is the future of diem?

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

On today’s episode, NLW does a retrospective of Facebook’s libra project, which was renamed late last year to diem. He argues that, whatever happens with diem specifically, it has a place in the historical record as the starting gun for a new era in stablecoins and central bank digital currencies. 

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - A World Without Plastic

If you look around, how much plastic can you see? The answer might surprise you. Current civilization runs on plastic -- it's in everything from the depths of the ocean to the heights of Mount Everest, and it will remain long after we are gone. In today's episode, the guys ask: Can humanity end its addiction to this miracle material? What would the planet look like without plastic?

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Fate of Chris Cuomo and CNN

It’s a busy podcast today as we take up the limited evidence that the new variant justifies the draconian measures now being imposed in Europe and being floated here at home. Then we go into the “indefinite suspension” of Chris Cuomo at CNN and what it means for the future of the network, whose new boss has already indicated he wants to take it in a different direction. And will the new West Side... Source

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What Could Go Right? - Live from Web Summit: An Affordable Internet & Pharmaceutical Psychedelics (Bonus)

We're back with part 2 of our Web Summit episode, bringing you conversations with people who are trying to make the world a better place.

Today we talk with Sonia Jorge, Executive Director for Alliance for Affordable Internet and Head of Digital Inclusion Program at Web Foundation, to hear how they are creating the conditions for affordable Internet in countries worldwide and what they have learned along the way. Next, we sit down with Robert Barrow, the CEO of MindMed, a company that researches and develops psychedelic-inspired medicine, about what they see as the future of mental illness and addiction treatment.\

What Could Go Right? is produced by The Progress Network and The Podglomerate.

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