Month: April 2022

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The NewsWorthy - Russia’s Veto Power, Payments Paused (Again) & Viral Reddit Art- Wednesday, April 6th, 2022

The news to know for Wednesday, April 6th, 2022!

We'll tell you what Ukraine's president is demanding from the United Nations to deal with Russia and any future conflicts. 

Also, another rough week for the deep south with severe storms that continue today. 

And two new government decisions were meant to help Americans with healthcare costs and student loans.

Plus, the "three comma club": who's on this year's list of billionaires, a big change for Twitter users could be on the way, and a viral art project rooted in teamwork. We'll explain how it came together. 

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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What A Day - Not Ready, Not Set, Redistricting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an emotional address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday after his visit to Bucha. In his speech, Zelensky accused Russian troops of atrocities, which included violent murder, rape, and a number of horrific acts.

There are a number of states fighting over redrawing their maps even as the midterm elections inch closer. Michael Li, senior counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, joins us to break down some of the states that are knee-deep in this issue right now.

And in headlines: Oklahoma’s Legislature passed a near-total ban on abortion, China recorded its highest number of COVID cases in a single day, and the Biden administration plans to extend the payment pause for federal student loan debt to August.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Amazon Gets Its First Union

Few were betting that a group of workers on Staten Island could win union recognition at their Amazon warehouse. Now that they’ve done it, can they replicate this win at other shops across the country? And what will the nation’s largest unions do to help Amazon workers join the labor movement?


Guest: Steven Greenhouse, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.


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The Daily Signal - Venezuelan Refugee Explains How Socialist Policies Destroyed His Country

Two decades ago, Venezuela was a thriving country. Today, Venezuela is ranked 176th on The Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, just above North Korea. 


How did Venezuela fall from prosperity so quickly? How did socialist policies affect the nation’s economy? Is there any hope for its future?  


Jorge Galicia, a refugee from Venezuela and outreach fellow at The Fund for American Studies, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to answer these questions and describe what it was like to grow up in Venezuela. 


Also on today’s show, we cover these stories: 

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on the United Nations to remove Russia from its Security Council.
  • Twitter offers entrepreneur Elon Musk a seat on its board of directors after he becomes the social media company's largest shareholder. 
  • Individuals who live in Palm Springs, California, and identify as transgender or nonbinary are eligible to receive up to $900 a month. 


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What Could Go Right? - Does Work Work Anymore? with Roy Bahat

Work ain’t what it used to be—just ask the millions of Americans who are part of the “Great Resignation.” Venture capitalist and head of Bloomberg Beta, Roy Bahat, is looking to shape work for the better, from new forms of labor organizing to remote-friendly tech.

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Hayek Program Podcast - The Science and Art of Economics with Peter Boettke & Rosolino Candela, Pt. 2

In this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we'll hear part two of a conversation between Peter Boettke & Rosolino Candela on the science and art of economics. Candela expands upon his vision of property rights and makes his case for why property rights are fundamentally human rights. Additionally, the pair discuss the intellectual direction taken by the mainstream of the economics profession, and Candela offers his take on why challenges to liberalism persist in the modern day.

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The Gist - 5 Words From Quincy Jones

The words were spoken to Sonari Glinton, who went on to make The Story of Quincy Jones Podcast, an experience that reoriented Glinton's entire outlook and career. Plus, What Vlad Putin gets paid, and What if we just paid Fox viewers to watch CNN?

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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It Could Happen Here - Money and the Survival of the Revolution

Mia is joined by Kyle and Steve of Strange Matters magazine trace the history of money, discuss what money actually is, and how certain theories of money like Modern Monetary Theory fail in ways that have profound impacts on any post-revolutionary society.

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Short Wave - The Indicator: Destroying Personal Digital Data

Today, we present an episode of NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. It's filled with one of our favorite topics: Data.

Algorithms are the secret sauce for many tech platforms. With user data, they can help a company tailor a subscriber's experience and make the product better. But what happens when the data that feeds an algorithm is obtained through less than legal means?

We learn about the curious case of Kurbo, the weight loss app for kids that the feds say illegally collected data to generate that secret sauce.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘The Vortex’ investigates how climate catastrophes can have unexpected consequences

In 1970, a cyclone tore through Pakistan and the political lines that existed, leading to genocide and very nearly a nuclear war in the country. Author Scott Carney was curious about this catastrophe but also how these extreme weather events, which are only becoming more common, have political consequences. Carney told NPR's Steve Inskeep that we will almost certainly face similar problems in the future, so we should be wary of today's unstable political systems.