Today on The Gist, we decide to fix healthcare. Amy Finkelstein is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-author of the new book We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care. The Right's not going to love it. The Left's not going to love it. It could work. Plus, right-wing Spaniards raise the question of how often fears of the far-right come true. And conservatives love gold ... GOLD ... GOLD!!!!
A new report from the World Health Organization suggests that aspartame, the widely used artificial sweetener, may cause cancer. Should Americans worry about this?
Chief diversity officers were some of the hottest hires in corporate America two years ago, but some high-profile companies have started to say goodbye to this role. Ravi and Rikki dissect the new trend and question whether this is the beginning of the end for corporate America’s push for social justice.
Lastly, the hosts review a new poll that shows what Americans want at work in order to achieve happiness, impact, and adequate pay.
[00:43] Trump Trial Date
[5:08] Diet Coke & Cancer
[14:47] End of Chief Diversity Officer
[30:43] Best/Worst Jobs
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The film captures the race against the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb, and Oppenheimer's genius and torment as well. Mona Charen and Sonny Bunch sit in for Charlie Sykes to break it down. *INCLUDES SPOILERS*
Eli Lake joins the podcast to talk about Hunter and Joe Biden. We have questions: Who is Devon Archer and what does he know? Why has it taken so long for details to emerge? Who are the friends and Democratic donors buying Hunter's paintings? And what's up with Joe Biden's dogs? We also catch up on the latest Covid-origin science. Give a listen.
Back to school in extreme heat ... as the heat dome shifts to cover more Americans. TX border battle. Alabama woman's kidnapping claim made up. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Centuries before the arrival of Europeans, one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas rose and fell.
They left behind them a rich legacy of roads and construction. They had a system of writing as well as a highly developed system of mathematics and astronomy.
However, this advanced civilization suddenly ended. The people who made up the civilization never left, but their cultural and political institutions fell apart, and many of their cities were abandoned.
Learn more about the Maya Civilization, its rise, and its fall on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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We're talking about a controversial law in Israel that could sink the country further into a political crisis. We have reactions from inside Israel and here in the U.S.
Also, it's the White House versus Texas. They're going to court over some hardline enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Plus, we'll tell you which Republican presidential candidates have qualified for the first debate, why one country song has been especially divisive, and how TikTok is now challenging what used to be called Twitter.
Trump gets a trial date for his second indictment as his legal problems get worse. A pair of Iowa and South Carolina polls show Trump still crushing the field and officially qualify multiple candidates for the first debate. The DeSantis campaign has finally landed on a "Let Ron Be Ron" strategy. Joe Biden’s campaign builds an unconventional operation to take on the Republican nominee. And later, New York Congressman Dan Goldman stops by to talk about prosecuting Donald Trump and the latest Republican antics around Hunter Biden and RFK Jr.
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In today's episode, author Nishanth Injam tells NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer that when he first arrived in the U.S. from India, he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. That tension he grappled with is now at the heart of his debut collection of short stories, The Best Possible Experiences, which chronicles the expansive ups and downs of being an immigrant, both at home and in a new place.
