Up First from NPR - The Sunday Story: On the Ground in Haiti

NPR's Eyder Peralta reports from a country caught between criminal gangs, a broken government and a multinational police mission with a history of brutality. In this episode of The Sunday Story, Eyder asks what that current situation means for Haitians facing spiraling gang violence and the arrival of an international security force in a nation with a legacy of disastrous foreign interventions.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?

The story of IUDs is a story of technology, reproductive rights, shortcomings in communication about women’s health, and politics. 


Guest: Mia Armstrong-Lopez, managing editor at ASU Media Enterprise and author of a recent piece on IUDs for Slate


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It Could Happen Here - CZM Book Club: “Party Discipline” by Cory Doctorow, Part Four

Margaret finishes reading Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.

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The Allusionist - 197. Word Play 7: Word Sport

At the Scripps National Spelling Bee, behind the spectacle of kids vying to be champion spellers, a whole lot of work goes on to make words into this word sport. Offering a peek into the apiary are the Bee's executive director Corrie Loeffler, and Ben Zimmer and Jane Solomon from the Bee's word panel.

Find out more about this episode, get the transcript, hear the other Beelusionist episode about the Spelling Bee, and listen to the rest of the Word Play series, at theallusionist.org/wordsport. And visit spellingbee.com for all the information about this year's tournament.

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This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, with Martin Austwick of palebirdmusic.com.

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This Machine Kills - Premium – 350. Most Data Work is Bullshit

We chat a bit about some upcoming international travel, then do a reading series by a data scientist who wrote a great blog post about how most of the work done by data scientists in large organizations feels totally worthless, pointless, unfulfilling, and unnecessary — in other words, the definition of bullshit. And yet data science is valorized and mythologized in ways that are disconnected from material reality. ••• I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ ••• Most Data Work Seems Fundamentally Worthless https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/most-data-work-seems-fundamentally-worthless/ Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

The Gist - BEST OF THE GIST: Mixed Signals Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, the remainder of Mike’s interview with Ben Smith and Nayeema Rasa, co-hosts of the new Semafor podcast Mixed Signals. Topics touched upon include (but are not limited to) naming a podcast, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the future of media. To hear part one of this interview, listen to our show from Wednesday, June 26, 2026. 

 

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara 

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Motley Fool Money - The Two Most Important Questions in Investing

What is it worth? Why? 


Ricky Mulvey caught up with Motley Fool Canada’s Jim Gillies for a conversation about how retail investors can value stocks and why they have an advantage over institutional traders. They discuss:


- The difference between price and value.

- What financial metrics can and can’t tell investors.

- The valuation case for a sporting goods retailer.


Companies mentioned: AAPL, OTC: WIPKF, MEDP, ASO, DKS, ADDYY, SFM


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Jim Gillies

Engineer: Tim Sparks 

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Up First from NPR - Debate Fallout, Biden Tries to Rebound, Public Housing in the Summer.

Supreme Court decisions and the first presidential debate of the general election season make for a busy week in politics. President Biden shows a re-energized self at a North Carolina rally. And, the federal government now says local public housing authorities may cover tenants' cost of powering their air conditioners.

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