Are the tides shifting in Africa? What direction is the continent's progress toward good governance headed? And how should we understand competing international interests and investment there? Ebenezer Obadare, a Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to examine Nigeria's contentious election as well as China's, Russia's, and the US's involvement in Africa. Plus, we look at changes in airport security, US unemployment, and inflation.
Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late father who passed on in 2004. Nafisi says that reading can help us really live and also help us, and has helped her, survive challenging times. Nafisi told NPR's Scott Simon that literature's purpose is to let us experience new worlds: "to come out of yourself, and join the other."
Fox News and Dominion reach settlement. Deadly parking garage collapse. President Biden signs executive order to improve childcare. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper has tonight's World News Roundup.
Sixteen-year-old Ralph Yarl was shot by an octogenarian in Kansas City—a crime that is quite rare, yet covered as if it's the norm. Plus, the big banks are rebounding nicely, but despite that, the banking system as a whole is not healthy, says Kathryn Judge, editor of The Journal of Financial Regulation and professor at Columbia School of Law. Also, the Dominion case shows that sometimes Fox propagandizes their audience, and sometimes the audience propagandizes Fox.
Ravi, Rikki, and Joe talk through their updated takes on the chaos that is Twitter. From classifying National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media,” to getting into a feisty exchange with a BBC reporter during an interview last week, the trio ask the question on everyone’s mind: what’s up with this Elon guy? Then the gang jumps into a conversation about recovery High Schools, specialized educational facilities that help students with substance use disorders maintain sobriety while also getting a quality education. We speak with two leaders from these schools to find out how to help America’s teens fight addiction. Finally, we talk about the abortion pill Mifepristone. Unlike all the other media outlets, we aren’t delving deep into the legal conundrum surrounding the drug, instead we speak with two board-certified OB-GYNs to delve into the safety of the pill that’s been causing a big ruckus.
[02:03] - Twitter Roundup
[26:50] - Recovery High Schools
[45:04] - Are Abortion Pills Safe?
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Politicians on both sides of the aisle often get carried away with designing new or expanded tax programs without considering what is already in the tax code. Adam Michel details how to make it simpler.
Liel Leibovitz joins the podcast today to discuss his lead article in the May COMMENTARY, "The Return of Paganism." But before that, he gives us his impressions of the political situation in his native country, Israel. Give a listen.
