By Idra Novey
The Commentary Magazine Podcast - What’s the Matter with Kansas?
In John and Christine’s absence, Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson and COMMENTARY contributing editor and “The Reeducation” podcast host Eli Lake join the show to talk about Tuesday's Republican primary elections and Kansas’s decisive rejection of a ballot initiative that would ban abortion. Also, we discuss the strangely apoplectic response to Nancy Pelosi’s stop in Taiwan, al-Qaeda’s new state, and taxpayer-funded crack pipes.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Banks Are Buying Your Neighborhood, Part I
Across the United States, would-be homebuyers are telling a similar story: after weeks or months of searching, they finally find a home they can afford -- only to be outbid by another buyer, often offering to pay in cash, at thousands of dollars above the asking price. What's going on? According to multiple reports, the answer isn't just wealthy families -- instead, they argue, financial institutions are moving in, buying up not just homes, but entire neighborhoods. Is this just a rumor? Is there something more to the story? Tune in to find out in part one of this two-part series.
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It’s hard to think of an invention that has been more transformative to women than the birth control pill. Suddenly, American women possessed a power that women never before in history had: They could control when they got pregnant. They could have sex like . . . men.
The pill—and the profound legal, political and cultural changes that the sexual revolution and feminism ushered in—liberated women. Those movements have allowed women to lead lives that literally were not possible beforehand.
But here we are, half a century later, with a culture in which porn and casual sex are abundant, but marriage and birth rates are at historic lows. And many people are asking: Did we go wrong somewhere along the way? Was the sexual revolution actually bad for women?
The debaters:
Jill Filiopvic is an author and attorney who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and many other publications. You can follow her writing on her newsletter.
Louise Perry, based in London, is columnist at the The New Statesman. She is the author of the new book: “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.”
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Headlines From The Times - A place of friendship at the border closes
On the U.S.-Mexico border, where San Diego ends and Tijuana begins right next to the Pacific Ocean, there’s a place called Friendship Park. It opened over 50 years ago and was meant to be a symbol of the binational community that stretches across the border. Friendship Park eventually became an unlikely place for poignant cross-border reunions.
But since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Friendship Park has been shut down. And there’s a good chance it might not reopen. We get into its history and future today. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: San Diego Union-Tribune border reporter Kate Morrissey
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Once a symbol of binational unity, Friendship Park could close to cross-border reunions forever
CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 08/03
Kansas voters protect abortion rights. Remembering a legendary sportscaster. An about face on veterans' health care. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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Time To Say Goodbye - Executions in Myanmar with Ali Fowle
Hello from Tammy’s undisclosed location!
The hosts start with a brief discussion of Leanna Louie, a law-and-order Democrat running for District 4 Supervisor in SF. What might she represent for the future of Asian-American politics?
Then Jay and Tammy are joined by investigative journalist Ali Fowle to discuss Myanmar. The country’s military regime recently killed four prisoners, including well known pro-democracy activists Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy. These judicial executions, the first since the 1980s, shocked even those inside Myanmar, where extrajudicial murders and widespread arrests have been commonplace since the February 2021 military coup.
Ali describes her experience reporting from Myanmar in the decade leading up to the coup, the culture of fear and violence used to suppress last year’s popular uprising, and what the resistance movement looks like today. We ask why the coup in Myanmar has not broken through internationally in the way Russia’s assault on Ukraine has, and what message the recent executions are meant to send.
Be sure to watch the short documentary Ali produced last year with Al Jazeera (warning: graphic content), and give a listen to Phyo Zeya Thaw’s music.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Nancy meeting you here: a tetchy Taiwan trip
The visit of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has Chinese tempers flaring. We ask what the trip suggests about American policy and what it means for Taiwan. Crowdfunding is making a real difference in the war in Ukraine—but its effects vary between the two sides. And a close listen to a young pianist’s prizewinning Rachmaninoff-concerto performance.
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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - Tutelage of Treehouse – Graham Morby, Sr. Software Engineer
Tutelage of Treehouse, sponsored by Treehouse!
Guest: Graham Morby is a Senior Software Engineer who works as a dev for hire. He has developed applications in Python, PHP, JS, Vue, and even coded BASIC in the 90's, hacking games for his Commodore 64. He's been doing computers since before they were cool.
Questions:
- Tell me more about the book you are working on.
- How did you get into programming? You've been into computers for a long time, but at some point you stepped into programming - tell me about that journey.
- Now that we know how you got started, tell me about your journey within development. How do you sift through the myriad of content out there and staying sharp in your field?
- You mentioned that you found Treehouse, you liked it and you stayed - tell me more about that.
- What is your perspective on how the coding/tech careers really are?
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The Best One Yet - 💃 “The Wedding Crasher outfit” — Abercrombie’s perfect dress. Taiwan’s most important company. Boatsetter’s Airbnb-share.
Abercrombie’s best-selling product right now isn’t a cologne, a polo shirt, or cargo shorts: It’s a $100 wedding dress. You’ve probably heard Nancy Pelosi is visiting Taiwan, but it’s also the home of the most important company in the world. And Boatsetter just raised $38M so you can Airbnb a boat — because Airbnb’s blindspot is the starboard bow.
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