Once upon a time, you had to leave home to pursue career opportunities outside of store clerk or parking attendant, but that has been changing with the help of people like today’s guest, former AOL CEO Steve Case. He’s here to talk about his new book, The Rise of The Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream. Also on the show, Ski-Mo is going to the Olympics, but is that a good thing? And the price tag for student debt relief raises the wrong questions.
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Transparency is the best way to curb members of Congress who might wish to use their positions to enrich themselves, according to Jennifer Schulp. She argues that a ban on stock trading probably won't achieve that much tangible benefit.
Final day to prepare as Hurricane Ian closes in on Florida's Gulf coast. Making airline fees more transparent. NASA hits its mark on an asteroid in space. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
In 2005 Joe Dibee fled America – leaving everything behind.
Speaking in Summer 2021, as he awaits what he hopes will be a trial date, Joe tells Leah and Georgia about life out of reach of the FBI, and his eventual capture in Cuba.
As they faced - or face - years behind bars, Leah Sottile explores what that word, terrorist, meant for the environmentalists who had become a ‘domestic terror priority’.
CREDITS
Presenter: Leah Sottile
Producer: Georgia Catt
Written by: Leah Sottile and Georgia Catt
Fact Checking: Rob Byrne
Music and Sound Design: Phil Channell
Music including theme music by Echo Collective, composed performed and produced by Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant; recorded, mixed and produced by Fabien Leseure
Artwork by Danny Crossley with Art Direction by Amy Fullalove
Script recorded and mixed by Slater Swan at Anjuna Recording Studio
Series Mixing and Studio Engineer: Sarah Hockley
Series Editor: Philip Sellars
Assistant Commissioner: Natasha Johansson
Commissioner: Dylan Haskins
Includes archive from GB News, The Hill, America’s Most Wanted
Burn Wild is a BBC Audio Documentaries Production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5 Live.
The death of a British monarch is a very big event. Thousands of people may take part in the funeral and procession, with millions more lining up to pay their respects and billions more watching on television.
This didn’t always use to be the case, however.
In particular, there was one English King who not only didn’t get an elaborate funeral, no one knew where his body was for over 500 years.
Learn more about the body of King Richard III and how it was lost and then discovered on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
The news to know for Tuesday, September 27th, 2022!
We have an update about Hurricane Ian as evacuation orders are in place in Florida and millions of people scramble to get ready.
Also: what’s the cost of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan? A new report has the price tag.
Plus: new rules that could impact the prices you see when you book a flight, NASA’s first time trying to move an asteroid in space, and a major change to the NFL’s all-star game…
Republicans finally release a policy agenda for the midterms. Democratic strategist David Plouffe stops by to talk about the homestretch of the campaign and the second season of his podcast CampaignHQ. Then later, the guys rank the latest Republican antics in a new game called Q Tier.
For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.
The Marriage Portrait is Maggie O' Farrell's fictional interpretation of Lucrezia de Cosimo de Medici, who fights to survive her forced marriage with her abhorrent husband, Duke Alfonso II. In an interview with Mary Louise Kelly, O'Farrell discusses themes of loss of control and explains her philosophy in how she portrays these historical figures.
Amanda Holmes reads Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Unending Love,” translated from the Bengali by William Radice. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
