CBS News Roundup - 08/19/2024 | World News Roundup

Democrats open their convention in Chicago. New CBS News poll has Harris ahead nationally, with Harris and Trump tied in the battleground states. Negotiating a Mideast cease fire. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - How Gen Z Chicagoans Are Planning For The DNC

A lot of assumptions get made about Gen Zers: they’re always on their phone, they’re disengaged, they’re Tik Tok-obsessed. But young Chicagoans are breaking those stereotypes, and working to get their voices heard in the 2024 election – including at the Democratic National Convention. WBEZ reporter Lisa Kurian Philip spoke with college students who plan to be at the DNC to report, protest, or support. We hear from UIC student and activist Angel Naranjo on why he wants to be there, and what this coming election season means for him and his generation. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

Up First from NPR - President Biden’s Legacy, Trump Campaign Focus, Ukrainian Buffer Zone

President Biden is scheduled to speak on the first night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Former President Donald Trump is visiting swing states and focusing his attacks on Harris' economic policies, and for the first time Ukraine's President has clearly stated the objective of Ukraine's military incursion into Russia.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Hail Harris: the Democratic convention begins

As Democrats convene in Chicago, polls suggest Kamala Harris is ahead by a whisker in the US presidential race. Can the party sustain the momentum? In hospital, your recovery may depend not just on diagnostic technology or the drugs you take, but whether your doctor is a woman (10:11). And new research into elephant communication suggests the creatures may have something akin to names (16:34).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.19.24

Alabama

  • SCOTUS stops Title 9 changes from Biden Admin. from implementation
  • New task force up and running in Montgomery to deal with crime rate
  • Governor Ivey signs a bill that requires emergency response plan in schools
  • 2 IVF clinics are appealing to SCOTUS over ruling from AL Supreme Court
  • Purdue Foods recalls 167,000 pounds of frozen chicken products
  • Keith Urban thrilled fans with free pop up concert at Buc-ees in Athens

National

  • Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in PA with disparate rallies
  • Global investment firm CEO ravages the economic plan from Kamala Harris
  • JD Vance ravages the polls being pushed out there to promote Harris
  • Democratic National Convention get underway in Chicago
  • Palestinian protestors plan on interrupting DNC, business owners buckle up
  • Report on Anti semitic violence drills down on what group incubates it
  • Border agency stats show 13M illegals let into US since Biden took office

NBN Book of the Day - Maria Dimova-Cookson, “Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty” (Routledge, 2019)

Maria Dimova-Cookson's new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin. The author proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century. The author defends the idea that freedom is a dynamic interaction between two inseparable, yet sometimes fundamentally, opposed positive and negative concepts – the yin and yang of freedom. Positive freedom is achieved when one succeeds in doing what is right, while negative freedom is achieved when one is able to advance one’s wellbeing. In an environment of culture wars, resurging populism and challenge to progressive liberal values, theorizing freedom in negative and positive terms can help us better understand the political dilemmas we face and point the way forward.

Maria Dimova-Cookson is Associate Professor in Politics at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK.

Yorgos Giannakopoulos (@giannakois a currently a Junior Research Fellow in Durham University, UK. He is a historian of Modern Britain and Europe. His published research recovers the regional impact of British Intellectuals in Eastern Europe in the age of nationalism and internationalism.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Scramble for Africa

In November 1884, representatives from a dozen European countries met in Berlin.

The reason for the meeting was audacious. They were going to carve up the continent of Africa between them. 

No one from Africa was in attendance at the conference, and no one was even invited. The decisions they made at this conference, and in the decades that followed, can still be felt in the world today.

Learn more about the European Scramble for Africa and how the European powers carved up a continent on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Strict Scrutiny - Project 2025 (cont.): How to Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School With Meredith Marks

Ben Rhodes of Crooked's Pod Save the World joins Leah and Kate to break down Project 2025's truly frightening foreign policy goals. Then, Leah and Melissa are joined by The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City's Meredith Marks. In addition to braving the "rumors and nastiness" of reality television, Meredith is also a graduate of Northwestern Law School. So who better to help analyze the intersection between reality TV and the law? 

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