Month: January 2024

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Anti-Defamation League at War

How the ADL’s commitment to the state of Israel threatens and undermines its ability to fight antisemitism at home. 


Guest: Mari Cohen, associate editor at Jewish Currents


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Pod Save America - Biden vs. Trump on January 6th

Biden frames the 2024 presidential race as a fight for democracy while Trump and his allies call the insurrectionists “hostages.” Then, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is hospitalized without informing the White House, conservatives continue to wage war on the Ivy League, and New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni joins to talk about a deal to avoid a potential shutdown and the GOP effort to impeach Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - Olympic runner Caster Semenya’s memoir tackles gender stereotypes in sports

When she was only a teenager, South African runner Caster Semenya won gold at the 2009 World Championships. But she was soon faced with intense scrutiny over her gender and testosterone levels and forced to endure intrusive questions and tests about her eligibility to compete. In her new memoir, The Race to Be Myself, Semenya opens up about having her skill and merit challenged on a global stage and choosing self-love over it all. She speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about breaking down expectations for women athletes, and raising her own daughters with that experience in mind.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Maximum Glitch: How to break Tetris

Willis Gibson, 13, closed out 2023 by becoming the first person to officially beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. Here’s how he did it.

Want to understand the code that caused the ultimate killscreen? Watch this great explainer from HydrantDude.

The 2023 film Tetris is based on the true story of the legal battle to license the game.

Is the era of the robot butler upon us? Mobile ALOHA is a low-cost and whole-body teleoperation system for data collection. Check out some of what it can do.

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It Could Happen Here - How To Make Your Own Encrypted Comms Network

Robert sits down with a friend to discuss setting up a mesh network to enable off-grid, encrypted communications between you and your people.

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Read Me a Poem - “Eurydice” by Linda Gregg

Amanda Holmes reads Linda Gregg’s “Eurydice.” 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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Good Bad Billionaire - Jay-Z: A business, man

How hip-hop’s first billionaire went from grams to Grammys. Journalist Zing Tsjeng and BBC business editor Simon Jack chart Jay-Z's meteoric rise from drug dealing in the projects to sipping champagne in a private jet. Jay-Z turned his aspirational lifestyle into cash, rapping about the champagne that he owned. And the private jet? A gift from his wife, Beyonce.

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, Zing and Simon judge the man who shot his brother, who signed Kanye West, whose adultery gave use Lemonade, and who has been called the greatest rapper of all time.

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CBS News Roundup - 01/08/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Hotel explosion in Forth Worth. Investigation into latest Boeing plane incident. More questions arise after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospital stay. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - Defeating Putin: Tactics, Weapons, and Will

Yaroslav Trofimov, Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, discusses his new book, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence. Plus, our undisclosed, indisposed SecDef. And how Joe Biden defines White Supremacy.


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Federalist Radio Hour - ’Convicting A Murderer’: The True Story Of Steven Avery’s Final Crime

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Brenda Schuler, producer and researcher for The Daily Wire series "Convicting A Murderer," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to explain what people get wrong about convicted murderer Steven Avery and analyze how documentaries have strayed from journalism to become entertainment.

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