Month: December 2023

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The Daily Signal - Where Israel-Hamas War Stands

Dec. 7 will mark two months since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 others hostage. 



Fighting between Hamas and Israel resumed Friday after the release of about 100 hostages during a weeklong cease-fire. As Israeli troops advance in Gaza, they are “constricting the size of ground they don’t control,” defense expert Robert Greenway says of the Israel Defense Forces. 



Israel is now advancing to conduct military operations in southern Gaza in addition to the north, and Greenway, director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, says that’s necessary because “you can’t have a sanctuary” region where terrorists can remain. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)



Greenway joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how the U.S. should be engaged in the war and to share what is known about the hostages that have been freed and those still in captivity. 


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The Best One Yet - 🪩 “Mamma Mia, here we go again” — ABBA/KISS hologram concerts. Alaska’s Hawaiian airplane. Bitcoin’s mosquito rally.

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The band KISS is launching holograms of themselves to star in future concerts — But ABBA is already doing this… and it’s sold $150M worth of tickets already.

Alaska Airlines is acquiring Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9B — To get to Hawaii, you’ll have to go through Alaska.

And Bitcoin has surged 150% this year past $42k — Because after a crypto extinction event, Bitcoin is enjoying a “Mosquito Rally”.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Nikki Haley’s Surge to Second

Last week, former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley scored a coveted endorsement from Charles Koch’s political advocacy group. She’s passed Ron DeSantis in the polls—and now, she’s the top, non-Trump Republican candidate for president. But is there any hope of winning over Trump voters—or is this a race to be the candidate who steps in if the former president goes to jail?


Guest: Alexandra Ulmer, reporter at Reuters covering the 2024 U.S. presidential race, with a focus on Republicans, donors and AI.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther.

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Pod Save America - Is a Trump Dictatorship Inevitable?

Donald Trump deflects from his authoritarian impulses by accusing Joe Biden of undermining democracy, while warnings about a second Trump term grow more dire. George Santos gets the boot from Congress while Mike Johnson finds himself in a very similar position to his predecessor Kevin McCarthy. And finally, Strict Scrutiny’s Melissa Murray joins the show to talk about Trump’s flurry of bad legal news.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Oath and Honor,’ Liz Cheney analyzes Trump’s effect on the Republican party

When former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney criticized Donald Trump's presidency, she says she didn't know the Republican party would turn on her. But after losing her leadership role in the party and her bid for reelection, Cheney had to reassess. Her new book, Oath and Honor, opens up about the House investigation into the January 6 attack, and her colleagues' ambivalence on impeaching Trump. In today's episode, Cheney tells NPR's Leila Fadel why she thinks it's important to talk about Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election, and how it can still pose a threat to democracy in 2024.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Are LLMs the end of computer programming (as we know it)?

Do LLMs herald the end of computer programming (as we know it)? A Harvard lecture weighs in on this contentious topic.

An epic hardware bug story.

Question from the academic trenches: How bad will it look to prospective employers if you refuse to defend your PhD? (Answer: Pretty bad.)

Another intriguing question: Were postal pneumatic tubes in Berlin really cleaned with wine?

The Jetsons misled us about many aspects of the future, from flying cars to the role of pneumatics, but they were onto something with the series of tubes.

Before influencers and social media algorithms, there were coolhunters.

Congrats to Stack Overflow user tjati, who earned a Lifeboat badge by answering What does 'HTML is escaping' mean?.

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Read Me a Poem - Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life

Amanda Holmes reads from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life, a new translation of the Persian mystic’s work by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach. 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 - Occupy Gotham

Garrison and Mia discuss the parallels to Occupy Wall Street in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, conspiracy theories surrounding the movie, and the problem of constituent power. 


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Good Bad Billionaire - Patrick Soon-Shiong: Cures for cash

Why was biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong sued by his brother... and Cher? BBC business editor Simon Jack and journalist Zing Tsjeng trace his journey from apartheid South Africa to the upper echelons of LA society.

He’s tried to cure cancer, diabetes, and Covid-19, and along the way rubbed shoulders with some of the most powerful people on the planet: Joe Biden, the Pope, and Donald Trump. He's made his fortune selling drugs to sick people, but his results have been described as "controversial", "hype" and even “old wine in a new bottle”.

In the podcast that uncovers how the world's wealthiest people made their money and asks if they are good or bad for the planet, Simon and Zing judge a man who made cold hard cash from controversial cures.

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