These days, October is the start of the holiday shopping season. Smart shopping expert Trae Bodge is sharing her best advice about how to find deals, come up with gift ideas, and stay on budget through it all.
On this week's "CBS News Weekend Roundup" with Stacy Lyn, the Biden administration has waived several federal laws in Texas to allow for further border wall construction. CBS's Naomi Ruchim reports. The Pope is meeting with bishops from around the world to discuss the future of the Catholic Church. CBS's Chris Livesay is in Rome. And a new study found students who had classroom libraries of books with diverse characters had significantly higher reading scores. CBS's Stacy Lyn talks with Kyle Zimmer, the president and CEO of First Book on this important study.
Hank Asher was a lot of things: a Florida condo maven, a drug runner, a DEA informant—and a tech visionary who created the mixed blessing of turning everyone’s online activity into an unshakable shadow profile.
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Following oral arguments in a case aimed at demolishing Senator Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild - the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Senator Warren to talk about how far this Supreme Court is prepared to go to fulfill right wing deregulatory fantasies.
Next, Dahlia talks to investigative reporter Andrea Bernstein, part of the team behind We Don’t Talk About Leonard,a new podcast collaboration between ProPublica and On the Media. Andrea explains the mechanisms developed by Leonard Leo that have reshaped the courts over the past two decades, drawing a line from Leo’s state-level judicial influence campaigns, to that Alaskan fishing trip involving Justice Samuel Alito, to this week’s arguments in the payday loan case CFPB v CFSA.
In this week’s Amicus Plus segment, Andrea Bernstein sticks around to talk us through this week in court in New York City, in former President Donald Trump’s business fraud trial. Why did he choose to sit and glower and what did the limited gag order tell us about what the former President can rant about online and outside the court?
Being inside, hunching in front of a computer screen for hours at a time – these things take a toll on our minds and our bodies. Today on the show, TED Radio Hour's Manoush Zomorodi brings their new series Body Electric to Short Wave's Regina G. Barber. We learn about the negative side effects of our sedentary lifestyles and ask what scientifically-backed steps (and how many) it may take to combat them.
The ability for the U.S. to escape the consequences of high spending and massive debt may be declining faster than conventional wisdom would have predicted. Cato's Norbert Michel and Romina Boccia detail the issue.
Are almost half the words in the English language of French origin? It?s a claim one of our loyal listeners found surprising. Tim Harford talks to Dr Beth Malory, lecturer in English Linguistics at University College London, who explains why so many words derived from French have ended up in English.
Presenter: Tim Harford
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Series Producer: Jon Bithrey
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We take a deeper dive into the intellectual chicanery, moral corruption, and sociopathic tendencies at the heart of behavioral economics and its most famous “experts.” This is truly one of those cases where all your skepticism, cynicism, and antagonism for this entire field was not only justified, it was probably less intense than they deserved. This field needs more than a reckoning. We should raze the empire and salt the earth.
Stuff we reference
••• They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie
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Upbeat government jobs report says employers remain confident hiring despite uncertainty in the economy, high demand creates drug shortage of a medication doctors turn to for heart attack patients.
