Month: September 2022

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NPR's Book of the Day - Two authors explore ideals and stresses of Latino culture and immigration

The two books featured in this episode are stories examining the difficulties and stressors of being Latino in America. First is I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, which is about a 15-year-old girl who has a contentious relationship with her immigrant parents. Author Erika L. Sánchez explains in conversation with Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa her goal to challenge ideas of Latina perfection. Then we hear from David Bowles, author of They Call Her Fregona, who discusses with Scott Simon the cracks in the Latino community and immigration in pursuit of a better life.
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Short Wave - How Freaked Out Should We Be About Ukraine’s Nuclear Plant?

The world has been warily watching the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. The nuclear complex is being held by Russian forces, while the plant itself is being run by an increasingly ragged and exhausted Ukrainian workforce. Shells have fallen on the complex, and external power sources have been repeatedly knocked out, endangering the system that cools the nuclear reactors and raising the specter of a meltdown. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports from inside Ukraine.

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Lost Debate - Ep 78 | NYT vs. Hasidic Schools, Brett Favre Fraud, TSA, Lindsey Graham & Abortion

Ravi and Rikki start off with a bombshell report from the New York Times on underperforming Hasidic schools, before turning to Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre and his role in Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, renewed debate around the efficacy of the TSA, and Sen. Lindsey Graham’s reversal on who should govern abortion access.


[01:32] NYT Hasidic Schools Report

[16:03] Brett Favre Fraud

[25:12] Defund the TSA?

[36:45] Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Bill


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The Gist - Putin’s Slick Substance

Daniel Yergin, an energy expert and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The New Map: Energy, Climate & Clash of Nations, diagnoses Putin’s oil strategy and explains why reliance on the country that provides 10% of the word’s oil supply lead to such massive disruptions. Plus, Swedes obsessed with gun crime, and Trump offers a worse trade than Detroit Lions. Also, Putin has some internal critics, for now.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - At This Chicago School, Dozens Of Ukrainian Refugees Start Fresh

More than a hundred thousand refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine are here in the United States. Many of those refugees are children, and one place here in Chicago that is stepping up to help is Saint Nicholas Cathedral School in Ukrainian Villages. This school year they have taken in 75 Ukrainian refugee students, bought supplies for their families, and created an English immersion summer camp for the last weeks before school starts. Reset checks in with principal Anna Cirilli on how things are going, and with Anna Savchenko, the reporter who visited the school for WBEZ. GUESTS: Anna Cirilli, principal at St. Nicholas Cathedral School Anna Savchenko, education reporter, WBEZ For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The Child Poverty Rate Has Decreased Dramatically According To A New Study

In a new report from the New York Times and non-partisan research group Child Trends, the number of children living in poverty in the U.S. dropped significantly from the early 1990s to just before the COVID-19 pandemic. Reset speaks with one of the authors of the report, a reporter from the New York Times and researcher at Northwestern University on the findings and their implications. GUESTS: Dana Thomson, senior research scientist at Child Trends Jason DeParle, reporter for the New York Times Christine Percheski, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: The Merge Opens a New Era for the Ethereum Blockchain; Crypto Regulation Turf War

The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2022.

"The Hash" hosts discuss today's top stories, including the Ethereum Merge that transitioned the world's second largest blockchain from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, and the CFTC chairman's testimony in front of the Senate Agriculture Committee, in which Rostin Behnam said the agency is the “right regulator” to oversee digital assets trading. 


See also: The Ethereum Merge Finally Happened: So What?

Meet 8 Ethereum Developers Who Helped Make the Merge Possible

CFTC Already Preparing to Be Crypto Watchdog, Behnam Tells US Senators

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Consider This from NPR - COVID Risk May Be Falling, But It’s Still Claiming Hundreds Of Lives A Day

It's a strange moment in the pandemic. Mask mandates and other restrictions have all but disappeared. For most vaccinated people, the risk of severe illness has gone way down.

But hundreds of people are dying of COVID-19 every day. For their loved ones, grieving a terrible loss as the country is moving back to normal can be jarring.

Everyday Americans are weighing the threat the coronavirus poses to them. Scientists, too, are debating how dangerous the virus is right now.

NPR's Rob Stein reports on the debate about whether COVID is more or less dangerous than the seasonal flu.

And Susan Reinhard with the AARP's Public Policy Institute argues that more still needs to be done to protect nursing home residents.

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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Martha’s Vineyard, Railroad Deal, Yeshiva University | Sept. 15

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • A plane with 50 migrants lands in Martha’s Vineyard from Florida, as migrants also arrive outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington D.C. residence
  • Union rail workers and railroad companies reach a tentative agreement to avoid a strike
  • The Supreme Court rules against a Jewish university over its decision not to recognize an LGBT student club
  • Republicans plan to investigate Gen. Mark Milley if they take back the House
  • President Biden signs an executive order aimed at countering China in the tech industry



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