Month: August 2024

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The Daily Signal - Oklahoma Has Best School Choice in America, Superintendent Says

Every state should adopt Oklahoma's school choice model, the state's Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters said. "We have the best school choice in the country, and it's a national model that every state should follow," Walters told The Daily Signal at Erick Erickson’s The Gathering conference in Atlanta over the weekend. "But frankly, I think that I've asked for federal legislation along this way as well." Walters said improving education affects the whole state, and passing federal school choice legislation would improve the whole country.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Sheetal Sheth pens a children’s book about Raksha Bandhan in ‘Raashi’s Rakhis’

The Hindu holiday Raksha Bandhan is just around the corner – and in a new children's book called Raashi's Rakhis, actor and activist Sheetal Sheth writes about an empowered little girl, Raashi, who asks some pretty big questions about the gender roles prescribed to one of her favorite celebrations. In today's episode, Sheth speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about how she questioned her own parents as a first-generation Indian American, why she wanted to write from a place of inclusivity, and how she navigates some of the backlash she's gotten for doing so.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Lessons from The River (Maria Interviews Nate About His Book)

Nate’s book “On the Edge” is out this week! (Get your copy here.) Maria interviews Nate about the origins of the book, what extreme risk takers get right and wrong, and the year Nate bet a million dollars on sports.

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CBS News Roundup - 08/14/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Ernesto on track to become a major hurricane after pummeling Puerto Rico with wind and rain, causing widespread power outages. Former President Trump focuses on the economy in a stump speech in North Carolina. Inflation cools. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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Federalist Radio Hour - ‘You’re Wrong’ With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 110: We’ll Do It Live

Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Senior Editor David Harsanyi live from Utah as they analyze Elon Musk's interview with former President Donald Trump, explain why corrupt corporate media are letting Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Gov. Tim Walz hide from their pasts, and discuss the anti-free speech culture shift creeping its way into the U.S. Mollie and David also share their culture picks for the week, including the original "Twister," the new "Twisters," and "The Instigators."

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The Gist - Juul Of Denial

Is vaping bad for you? If you don't know the answer to that question it means the wars were never really settled. Luckily Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes the reporters behind the podcast Backfired: The Vaping Wars are here with answers. Plus, the Russians take New York, and Trump is talking differently about Kamala.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Should presidents have more of a say in interest rates?

Former President Donald Trump recently suggested that if elected in this year's presidential election he would want more say on decisions made by the Federal Reserve. Presidents taking a more active role in monetary policy would mark an extraordinary shift in U.S. economic institutions, and mark the end of central bank independence.

Today on the show, why the Federal Reserve insulates itself from day-to-day politics, and what it looks like when central banks are influenced by politicians.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Could Trash Be Turned Into Jet Fuel?

The busy summer travel season coincides with hurricane season, so travelers and airlines should brace for storm-related flight delays and cancellations. But that’s just one part of an almost never-ending chain reaction: more air travel (and its carbon emissions) contributes to severe weather, severe weather wreaks havoc on air travel, and so on and so on. Reset learns about this cycle, and what is being done to break it. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Consider This from NPR - A new Israel-Hamas cease-fire talk starts this week. Is anything different?

So often, telling the story of the Israel-Hamas war is reduced to a catalog of numbers.

But this war is much more than all of that. It is the daily life of the people living in the midst of the war that has now been raging for 10 months.

The war has also come to encompass a sense of insecurity that permeates, as the humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza through famine, unclean water and dwindling resources. Pair that with the prospect of a wider regional conflict with Iran that looms nearby.

On Thursday, U.S. and Arab mediators will launch new talks to attempt a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. But hopes for tensions to be diffused are not high.

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Consider This from NPR - A new Israel-Hamas cease-fire talk starts this week. Is anything different?

So often, telling the story of the Israel-Hamas war is reduced to a catalog of numbers.

But this war is much more than all of that. It is the daily life of the people living in the midst of the war that has now been raging for 10 months.

The war has also come to encompass a sense of insecurity that permeates, as the humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza through famine, unclean water and dwindling resources. Pair that with the prospect of a wider regional conflict with Iran that looms nearby.

On Thursday, U.S. and Arab mediators will launch new talks to attempt a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. But hopes for tensions to be diffused are not high.

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