The feud between Kendrick and Drake has dominated pop culture the last few weeks, so we decided to take a look at some of country music's greatest diss tracks. Did you know country artists took jabs? From Zach Bryan to The Chicks to Kitty Wells and more, we've got a spicy list for ya this week!
Nellie Bowles wasn’t always the TGIF queen you know and love at The Free Press.
In fact, Nellie was, for a very long time, deeply embedded in the progressive left.
Before Bari and Nellie met—and fell in love, blah blah blah—in 2019, Nellie was nothing short of a media darling. She had the right ideas, she wrote the right stories, and NYT readers ate it up.
But Nellie is a reporter. And being a reporter—a great one—forced her to confront the gap between what an increasingly zealous left claimed were its aims. . . and the actual realities of their policies.
People don’t usually change their minds. At least not on big-stakes political issues, and not when their jobs are at risk, or their social acceptance is on the line. And people certainly don’t change their minds publicly.
Nellie did. And she chronicles that change in her new book, Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History.
The book is a collection of stories from her reporting during the years she started to question the narrative. These were stories people told her not to write. People said, Don’t go to Seattle’s autonomous zone; there’s nothing to see there. They said, Don’t report on the consequences of hormone therapy for kids; it’s not important.
But as Nellie writes, “I became a reporter because I didn't trust authority figures. . . . As a reporter, I spent over a decade working to follow that curiosity. It was hard to suddenly turn that off. It was hard to constantly censor what I was seeing, to close one eye and try very hard not to notice anything inconvenient, especially when there was so much to see.”
That curiosity is what got Nellie kicked out of the club. But it gave her a place in a new club, the one that we at The Free Press think that the majority of Americans are actually in.
On today’s episode: What does it mean to walk away from a movement that was once central to your identity? How does it feel to be accused of being “red-pilled” by the people you once called friends? How did the left become so radical and dogmatic? Why do people join mobs? And how did Nellie come back from the brink?
Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Dr. Liliana Doganova’s bookDiscounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology(Princeton University Press, 2024) sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device called discounting. While its incidence remains little known, discounting has long been entrenched in market and policy practices, shaping the ways firms and governments look to the future and make decisions accordingly. Thus, a sociological account of discounting formulas has become urgent.
Discounting means valuing things through the flows of costs and benefits that they are likely to generate in the future, with these future flows being literally dis-counted as they are translated in the present. How have we come to think of the future, and of valuation, in such terms? Building on original empirical research in the historical sociology of discounting, Dr. Doganova takes us to some of the sites and moments in which discounting took shape and gained momentum: valuation of European forests in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; economic theories devised in the early 1900s; debates over business strategies in the postwar era; investor-state disputes over the nationalisation of natural resources; and drug development in the biopharmaceutical industry today. Weaving these threads together, the book pleads for an understanding of discounting as a political technology, and of the future as a contested domain.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
During the Second World War, the United States established the highly secret Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb based on nuclear fission.
While the Manhattan Project was ultimately successful, some in the program were thinking bigger. They felt that the explosion from an uncontrolled fission reaction could be used to create an even larger explosion using nuclear fusion.
One man, in particular, felt that such a device was necessary and spearheaded the efforts after the war to develop a fusion-based hydrogen bomb.
Learn more about Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
We'll tell you what former President Trump's ex-personal lawyer said on the witness stand about his old boss.
Also, the man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze is back, and so are his followers. They're determined to upset the stock market again.
Plus, we'll explain the largest changes in more than a decade to America's electric grids, how ChatGPT is becoming more human-like, and what to expect from the world's biggest film festival on and off the screens.
Those stories and more news to know in about 10 minutes!
Donald Trump leads President Biden in five of the six battleground states, according to two new polls released by the New York Times. These polls come at a time when Biden is struggling to win the support of young voters. But while polls are an essential snapshot of the country, that snapshot is fairly narrow. So to discuss what these numbers do and do not tell us, we spoke with Dan Pfeiffer, a co-host of Pod Save America and the host of Pollercoaster.
And in headlines: Michael Cohen takes the stand in Trump's hush money trial, three states hold primaries, and Louisiana could be the first state in the country to categorize abortion pills as controlled, dangerous substances.
In this episode, Rivers is hangin' out in his hometown of Auburn, Alabama with THREE amazing guests: Auburn legend Miles Bugg and comedians Nico Brooke and Nick Morgan-Moore! We start this one off with a DELICIOUS Ghost energy drink made specifically for a Vegas-based EDM festival called "Electric Daisy Carnival". Then we talk about what's being called "the worst commencement speech in history" that happened last week at Ohio State University and a judge in Oklahoma who can't stop doing drive-by shootings. Jake Owen's "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" is our JAM OF THE WEEK! Tune in now! Follow Nico on Instagram @JokesByNico. Follow Miles on Instagram @BioBugg. Nick on Instagram @NickWMM. Follow our show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod. Rivers is @RiversLangley Sam is @SlamHarter Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content and video episodes! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
On today's episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast," John Lott explains why crime is rising across America and what the media is getting wrong in its reporting on the subject.
