Month: June 2023

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Can the Feds Lower Your Rent?

Housing prices have skyrocketed, from the usual hot spots in New York and San Francisco, out to the until-recently-affordable places like Boise, Idaho and Charlotte, North Carolina. 


Sen. Brian Schatz proposed an $85 million program to entice cities and suburbs to enact “fair housing policies,” but is that enough to address a nationwide problem? 


Guest: Henry Grabar, Slate writer and author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.


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Pod Save America - 12 Angry Hopefuls

The Republican field grows to twelve as the RNC sets new criteria for the first debate. Donald Trump prepares to be indicted again. Ron DeSantis tests out new attack lines in Iowa. Nikki Haley does a CNN Townhall that no one noticed. And Joe Biden takes a debt ceiling victory lap with an Oval Office address, while his anti-vax Democratic challenger RFK Jr. does a Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk. Then Washington Post writer Ben Terris stops by to talk about his new book The Big Break.

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Dances,’ a Black ballerina navigates immense pressure and expectations

In Nicole Cuffy's novel, Dances, CeCe Cordell becomes the first Black woman to be named principal dancer at a major ballet company; but this big break also comes with big expectations. In today's episode, Cuffy speaks with NPR's Juana Summers about how CeCe navigates the world of ballet's preoccupation with white bodies, how it affects her relationship with her mother and brother, and how Misty Copeland's very real accomplishments informed CeCe's story.
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Read Me a Poem - “Leap Minnows Leap” by James Still

Amanda Holmes reads James Still’s poem “Leap Minnows Leap.” 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.


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It Could Happen Here - Resisting Mass Eviction in Santa Barbara Part 2

 In part 2 of our interview we discuss Core Spaces escalating tactics and attempts to subvert the laws passed to slow them down.

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Chapo Trap House - 738 – They Smile In Your Face feat. Corey Robin (6/5/23)

Today we’re joined by Professor Corey Robin, author of "The Reactionary Mind" and "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas," for a conversation all about one of the most powerful reactionaries in the world: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. We discuss the origins and contours of his conservative ideology, and how they reflect the development of race, class, law, power, conservatism and liberalism over his lifetime. You can pick up "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627793834/theenigmaofclarencethomas
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CBS News Roundup - 06/05/2023 | World News Round Up Late Edition

US and China tensions heat up. Investigation into Cessna Jet that crashed in Virginia. Former President Donald Trump's legal woes continue. CBS News Correspondent Matt Pieper has tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - DereLICHTion Of Duty

Lisa Belkin, author of Genealogy Of A Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night, traces several generations of family to the muzzle of a 9-mm Luger pistol in Stamford, Connecticut. Plus Donald Trump promises voters the World, so what Ron DeSantis is promising might seem measly by comparison. And CNN's Chris Licht is the subject of a devastating profile in The Atlantic.


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Federalist Radio Hour - The Case For Strategic Retreat

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Joel Webbon, president and founder of Right Response Ministries and the senior pastor of Covenant Bible Church in Texas, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his new book "Fight By Flight: Why Leaving Godless Places is Loving Godless Places."

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Consider This from NPR - For Russia and Ukraine, The Battlefield Includes The Economy

Wars are expensive. And Russia's invasion of Ukraine has had an impact on the economies of both countries.

NPR's Julian Hayda, in Kyiv, reports that international assistance is allowing Ukraine to stabilize its economy and avoid collapse.

The Russian economy seems to have remained resilient in the face of sanctions and other trade and financial restrictions. But NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith reports on how that could be changing.

In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.

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