Month: June 2022

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NPR's Book of the Day - Dan Chaon imagines a dystopian, dark future for America in ‘Sleepwalk’

Author Dan Chaon wanted to find a way to write about current times – instability, fear, political division – by creating an alternate version of America. Set in the future, his new book Sleepwalk is a dark and shadowy dystopia "one more pandemic away." Through the story, however, his eccentric main character discovers a longing for kingship and connection that was partly inspired by Chaon's experience as an adoptee meeting his biological father. In an interview on Weekend Edition Saturday, Chaon told Scott Simon that novels are like black holes: Everything you see in the world gets sucked into it.
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The Gist - DC’s Decades-long Hostility Towards Homosexuality

James Kirchick author of Secret City: The hidden history of gay Washington says an unfounded fear of spilling secrets kept many inside the closet. Plus, a Washington Post retweet that set off a meltdown and the duck-sauce murderer.

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The Daily Signal - What the Media, Politicians, Get Wrong on Guns

In the aftermath of a series of horrible mass shootings across the country, there is a knee-jerk reaction to demonize gun owners and call for sweeping gun control legislation.

But more often than not, those in the media and political classes calling for assault weapon bans and other gun control don't understand the very things they're legislating.

"There's just a complete lack of basic knowledge on the topic of firearms," says Stephen Gutowski. "How they work, how they're regulated, what the politics even are around them, why people oppose different policies that are often put forward in the wake of these shootings."

Gutowski is a firearms reporter and founder of gun news site thereload.com.

He joins this bonus episode of The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss gun laws, and proposed gun control legislation.

Listen to the podcast or read the lightly edited transcript below.


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Consider This from NPR - A First Step To Crypto Regulation, Or A Step Backwards?

Nearly everyone agrees the cryptocurrency industry needs regulation, but there are huge disagreements about what that should look like.

A Senate bill proposes a new regulatory framework for the industry. Cosponsors Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) argue that their bill hits the "sweet spot" between allowing innovation and protecting consumers.

Software engineer Molly White, who runs the blog Web3 is going just great, says that the bill is too industry-friendly, and puts into legislation the "foggy regulatory space" that crypto companies have taken advantage of.

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Federalist Radio Hour - Sheryl Sandberg Makes It Official: Girlbosses Are Done

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist Managing Editor Madeline Osburn joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss what Sheryl Sandberg's departure from Facebook’s parent company Meta says about feminism and the end of the "girlboss" era.

Read Osburn's article "The ‘Lean In’ Era Is Over, And That’s Good For Everyone" here: https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/08/the-end-of-the-lean-in-era/
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SCOTUScast - Viking River Cruises v. Moriana – Post-Argument SCOTUScast

On March 30th, the Court heard oral argument in Viking River Cruises, Inc. vs. Moriana, a case which concerned whether the Federal Arbitration Act requires enforcement of a bilateral arbitration agreement providing that an employee cannot raise representative claims, including under the California Private Attorneys General Act. With a decision likely to be rendered in the coming weeks and months, Theane Evangelis, partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn and Co-Chair of the firm’s global Litigation Practice Group, joins the program to give analysis.