Month: September 2024

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NBN Book of the Day - Michael David-Fox, “The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) compiles an array of recent scholarship that draws on newly available archival evidence. This interview with the book's editor, Dr. Michael David-Fox, summarizes what these new findings add up to, and highlights specific arguments made by the collection's authors. While Russian archives are presently difficult to access, Ukrainian archives have proved to contain a trove of information about the Soviet-era secret police. The authors in this collection have broken much new interpretive ground, and the essays are universally engaging and provocative.

About the book: Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine after 2015, has allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways not previously possible. Moving beyond well-known cases of high-profile espionage and repression, this study is the first to showcase research from a wide range of secret police archives in former Soviet republics and the countries of the former Soviet bloc—some of which are rapidly closing or becoming inaccessible once again. Rather than focusing on Soviet leadership, The Secret Police and the Soviet System integrates the secret police into studies of information, technology, economics, art, and ideology. The result is a state-of-the-art portrait of one of the world’s most notorious institutions, the legacies of which are directly relevant for understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia today.

Aaron Weinacht is Professor of History at the University of Montana Western, in Dillon, MT. He teaches courses on Russian and Soviet History, World History, and Philosophy of History. His research interests include the sociological theorist Philip Rieff and the influence of Russian nihilism on American libertarianism.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

For decades, the nation of Ethiopia has dreamed of creating a damn on the Blue Nile River. 

Such a dam would provide an enormous amount of electricity for a country that is one of the lowest electricity consumers in the world. Such a project would be a massive undertaking and it would also bring a great deal of prestige to the country. 

What was once a dream began to become a reality in the 21st century, and today is producing energy for the country. However, the project has also caused problems with many of its neighbors. 

Learn more about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, how it was built as well as how it has impacted the country and its neighbors, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - Why Climate Groups Are Optimistic about Kamala

Kamala has offered very few details on her climate and energy plans while openly promoting American fossil fuel production. Yet a lot of climate and environmental groups seem to adore her. What’s going on here?! Max and Erin explain how, even though Harris might sound pretty moderate on the campaign trail, Biden has actually tilted the energy economy so heavily that she’s set up for success. What’s Harris’ strategy in showcasing fracking? How can she weild the Supreme Court in her favor? And, at this point, is just being “good” on climate change really enough?

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: Voter Trends in an Unprecedented Election

With Election Day just about a month-and-a-half away, both presidential candidates are focusing on turning out the vote. But what kinds of voter registration trends are we seeing during this unprecedented election cycle? What people and events caused spikes in voter registrations – and what does that really mean for Election Day?

TargetSmart Senior Adviser Tom Bonier joins me to break down what he’s seeing in this year’s registration data – from what’s surprised him most, to the impact of Taylor Swift’s endorsement, to what he’s watching for next...

 

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Slate Books - Gabfest Reads: A Murder Mystery that Uncovers the Excitement in the Everyday and Ordinary

On this month’s edition of Gabfest Reads, Political Gabfest host David Plotz talks with author Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Tell Me Everything. They discuss how Strout conceives of interconnected stories and characters across her work, including the return of beloved characters like Olive Kitteridge. They also dig into the importance of listening and the ways ordinary lives can be extraordinary. 


Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Chief Justice Tips His Hand

Chief Justice John Roberts has been labeled by some as the serious centrist at the court, and he seemed to embrace and internalize that. But the New York Times’ revelations about behind-the-scenes maneuvers favoring Trump in last term's insurrection cases shattered that illusion once and for all. The Chief’s stance in these cases surprised the Roberts-as-twinkly-eyed-institutionalist brigade, but did not, apparently, shock this week’s guest, Linda Greenhouse. Greenhouse was the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent for 30 years, and is the author of Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme Court. 

As we head into another pivotal Supreme Court term, Dahlia Lithwick and Greenhouse turn their expert SCOTUS watching lens on how the High Court got so leaky, why the Chief was so unprepared for the public backlash to his decision in the immunity case, and whether the Chief is so much Team Trump that we should worry about the election cases inevitably headed his way. 


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Short Wave - How To Get A Haircut In Space

Hey, Short Wavers! Today we're sharing an excerpt of the new NPR podcast How To Do Everything.

How To Do Everything is half advice show, half survival guide, and half absurdity-fest — and it's not made by anyone who understands math. In fact, it comes from the same team that brings you NPR's news quiz Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We think you'll like their vibe, and we especially think you'll like this excerpt from their recent episode. It features astronaut Frank Rubio, who holds the record for the longest time spent in space. How To Do Everything hosts Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag ask what advice he has for two NASA astronauts whose mission to the International Space Station was recently extended by ... a lot of time. Listen to find out how astronauts do laundry in space, get a haircut and blow out birthday candles.

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CBS News Roundup - 09/21/24 | Weekend Roundup

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", anchor Stacy Lyn has the latest on rising tensions in the Middle East following exploding pagers in Lebanon. CBS's Chris Livesay reports from Tel Aviv and Imtiaz Tyab is in Beirut. Sean Diddy Combs is in jail. CBS's Jarred Hill with the serious charges. And on the Kaleidoscope segment, Alexis Krivkovich from McKinsey & Company discusses their Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th Anniversary Report.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Do 85% of the world?s population practice a religion?

We don?t usually do god on More or Less, but one listener got in touch to ask us to investigate a stat used by an Anglican priest on a BBC radio programme.

Speaking on the ?Thought for the Day? slot, Reverend Lucy Winkett said that around 85% of the world's population practice a religion.

Is this true? We speak to Conrad Hackett, from the Pew Research Center, and the person whose research is the source for the claim.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Natasha Fernandes Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Nigel Appleton Editor: Richard Vadon

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 148

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.

  1. The UAW Staff Purge
  2. Why Conservatives Hate Ukraine feat. Rudy Giuliani
  3. The Heritage Foundation's Anti-Trans Booklets
  4. An Update On The Revolution in Myanmar
  5. The Current State of Meme Politics

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