Month: June 2023

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - ACLU Alleges Racial Discrimination In Chicago Traffic Stops

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week against the city of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department over unlawful traffic stops. The suit alleges that Black drivers are four to seven times more likely than white drivers to be pulled over and that Latino drivers are twice as likely. Reset hears more about the suit from Alexandra Block, Senior Supervising Attorney for the Criminal Legal System and Policing project at ACLU Illinois.
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Focus on Africa - Mali: UN peacekeeping mandate to expire

As the mandate for United Nations peacekeeping soldiers to remain in Mali comes to an end after more than a decade, we look at what the force has achieved in the country, and what could happen once the troops have departed.

Plus, we examine the impact of IMF-mandated public spending cuts on countries like Kenya, who have to agree to stringent terms in order to receive emergency loans.

And we take a look at how the rising cost of living is making it difficult for some young Muslims to make the Hajj pilgrimage this year.

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Focus on Africa - Mali: UN peacekeeping mandate to expire

As the mandate for United Nations peacekeeping soldiers to remain in Mali comes to an end after more than a decade, we look at what the force has achieved in the country, and what could happen once the troops have departed.

Plus, we examine the impact of IMF-mandated public spending cuts on countries like Kenya, who have to agree to stringent terms in order to receive emergency loans.

And we take a look at how the rising cost of living is making it difficult for some young Muslims to make the Hajj pilgrimage this year.

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Federalist Radio Hour - How U.S. Foreign Policy Shaped The World

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Sean Mirski, a lawyer and U.S. foreign policy scholar, joins Federalist Staff Writer Shawn Fleetwood to discuss the rise of the United States as a global superpower and how lessons from the past can inform the foreign policy decisions of the future.

You can find Mirski's book "We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus" here.
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Lost Debate - The End of Affirmative Action

In this special episode, Ravi reacts to yesterday's groundbreaking decision by the Supreme Court to end affirmative action as we know it.


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CBS News Roundup - 06/30/2023 | World News Round Up

Bracing for a busy holiday for travelers. Colleges prepare for life without affirmative action. Parkland school massacre deputy acquitted. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Friday, June 30, 2023.

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The Bulwark Podcast - TRAILER The Bulwark Podcast Presents: The Corruption of Lindsey Graham

Will Saletan has a story to tell: It’s about what’s happened to the United States since Donald Trump began his rise to power eight years ago. It’s about authoritarianism in our own country.

But it's not a story about Trump. It’s about his collaborators, and in particular, one collaborator: Senator Lindsey Graham.

This special summer podcast series will explain what happened to Graham, and how the story of his gradual corruption can help us to understand how an entire political party, and half of our country, fell under the sway of a candidate, and then a president, who openly attacks democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law. "The Corruption of Lindsey Graham" starts July 3.

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S8 Bonus: Fredrik Björk, Grafbase

Fredrik Björk is originally from Sweden, but has spent many years in San Francisco. He got started coding in BASIC on his Commodore 64 (while also playing video games, of course). Post graduating from RIT, he has been involved in many startups, like Avatars United and The Real Real. Outside of tech, he is a Dad of two kids and likes to run - specifically marathons. Beyond that, he likes wind surfing and wing foil.

Fredrik noticed that the patterns of development has changed towards outsourcing over building everything in house over the past decade. Fast forward to 2021, great services exist to empower developers to ship faster. Fredrik wanted to build a service like this for the API layer, and below.

This is the creation story of Grafbase.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Hot to trot: the up sides of climate migration

Mass movements of people expected as climate change progresses are often depicted as catastrophes-in-waiting. We visit Niger, where that shift has begun, finding there is good news amid the bad. We examine the spate of video games depicting Ukraine’s live theatre of war (11:32). And the end of Indiana Jones’s run prompts a reflection on what made his adventures so compelling (17:12).

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Runtime: 24 min