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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Elections, Hispanics, and the Coming Wave
Today’s podcast takes up the results of last night’s primaries and elections and wonders at the Democratic head-in-the-sand reaction to the way Hispanic voters are moving to the Republican party. Give a listen. Source
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Hazards of Standardized Testing
Each and every year, billions of children take some form of standardized tests. In theory these tests help measure how much a child has learned, allowing educators to gauge each kid's progress. Yet standardized testing in the US has a troubling origin story, one that's not often talked about. Tune in to learn more.
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Beyonce appeared on Oprah’s show multiple times — as a singer, wife, mother, and mogul. We discuss how the relationship between these two icons evolved and reflected the larger culture.
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Headlines From The Times - The Future of Abortion, Part 4: Keeping It
Pregnancy centers offer services like free pregnancy tests, and sometimes resources like diapers or baby clothes — even classes and counseling. Their main focus, though, is to persuade women not to have abortions — and support those who continue their pregnancies.
Today, how religious organizations and state funding have led to the rise of these pregnancy centers, as abortion rights fall nationwide.
Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske
More reading:
The antiabortion movement fuels a growth industry: Pregnancy centers
Read and listen to the rest of the L.A. Times “The Future of Abortion” series here
Even with Roe vs. Wade in place, low-income women struggle to get abortions in Texas
CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 06/15
The Fed set to hike interest rates ... but by how much? Deadly ambush on CA police. Woman ordered to pay child support to the man she says raped her. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has today's World News Roundup.
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Big Technology Podcast - Which Startups (And VCs) Survive a Bear Market — With Nina Achadjian
Nina Achadjian is a partner at Index Ventures. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how large declines in public market valuations impact startups and venture capitalists. Achadjian and I recorded with the S&P 500 down 13%. year to date. That was just last week! Now, we're in full-on bear market territory, with the S&P down more than 20%. Join us for a nuanced conversation on whether our period of oversized valuations was any good, and what to do now that it's over.
The Intelligence from The Economist - Planes have changed: Britain’s controversial asylum policy
The European Court of Human rights foiled Britain’s plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda yesterday by holding that British courts must first find the policy legal. The Taliban have proven surprisingly adept tax collectors, though they will spend much of the funds on defence rather than improving the lives of struggling Afghans. And the world is buying too few electric vehicles to meaningfully reduce carbon emissions.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Notifications North Star – Vatasha White, Courier
Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier!
Guest: Vatasha White is a Senior Software Engineer at Courier. Previously, she built software at Lacework, LaunchDarkly and GE Digital. She is a graduate of Smith College in 2015.
Questions:
- Having been a prior customer of Courier, what excited you about the solution?
- What is your favorite use case for the tool?
- So now that you work at Courier... what impact do they have that really motivates you?
- What are you working on now, that really excites you about the product?
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Honestly with Bari Weiss - The Case for American Seriousness
We live in a culture that is driven by nay-saying. In one corner, people insist that the individual stands no chance against structural and systemic maladies. From the other, people say that we are in inexorable decline as a civilization and that decadence is everywhere we turn. Both wind up arguing against risk-taking, against the possibility of creating new things and new worlds.
How can we recover the adventurous, optimistic, forward-thinking, risk-taking attitude that has made America the most innovative country in the history of the world?
Today, the venture capitalist (and former journalist) Katherine Boyle explains how. She makes the powerful case that that spirit of building is very much alive in America—just not in the places that we once assumed we’d find it.
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