Month: October 2024

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State of the World from NPR - October 7th: A Year of War Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It

The October 7th Hamas-led attacks on Israel and the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza has changed the course of geopolitics and will have far reaching consequences for the world. The events have also upended the lives of countless individuals. Our team of reporters in the region bring us stories of lives changed in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - What We’re Watching This New Supreme Court Term

Democracy had a pretty rough ride at the Supreme Court last term. Presidents have criminal immunity now! Agency experts aren’t the experts anymore! Sure, you can convert that rifle into an automatic weapon! And guess what? More horrors await us this term. 

But we are not going to spend this last episode before the start of a new term dispassionately picking over a smattering of cases for a lawyerly preview, or helplessly doom spiraling. Instead, we will hear from two women who refuse to blithely accept what the High Court is handing down—two women who have decided to do something, in very different ways. 

You’re going to find out why one of these women will head to SCOTUS on Monday in the suit she wore to argue before the High Court 44 years ago. Dahlia Lithwick will ask the other woman, Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward, about the legal theories, doctrine tracking, and litigation strategies her organization is deploying to fight for democracy in the courts –– even (and especially) in courthouses and cases far from One First Street, where until now, the conservative legal movement has had almost free reign. Because any honest preview of the new Supreme Court term needs to look wider and deeper than the handful of cases docketed for the coming weeks. 

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CBS News Roundup - 10/05/2024 | Weekend Roundup

On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes gets the latest on the situation in the Middle East from CBS's Imtiaz Tyab, and threats ahead of October 7th from CBS's Nicole Sganga. We'll look at the continuing fallout from Hurricane Helene. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, we're discussing the Jewish High Holy Days, and how they are being affected by the upcoming one-year mark of the Hamas terror attack on Israel last October 7th.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

National Geographic magazine recently wrote that ?people in the United States eat more than 672 billion pounds of corn per year, which breaks down to more than 2,000 pounds per person annually?.

Is this really true?

Tim Harford investigates all the things that we don?t eat, that are counted in this number.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Bethan Ashmead Latham Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound mix: Giles Aspen Editor: Richard Vadon

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It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 150

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. What’s the Matter With Boeing, Pt. 1: Shareholders Don't Build Airplanes

  2. What’s the Matter With Boeing, Pt. 2: The Plane That’s Trying to Murders You
  3. Disaster Relief, Survival & Hurricane Helene
  4. Vance & Walz Become Friends During Debate
  5. James' Trip To The Darién Gap

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CBS News Roundup - 10/04/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

President Biden made a surprise visit to the White House Briefing Room today. Days after Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast, many people are still unaccounted for. And striking dockworkers return to work.

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The Gist - Funny You Should Mention – Nimesh Patel

Funny You Should Mention Episode One: Nimesh Patel. Over his career Nimesh Patel has gone from a comedian who wants to make points and jokes to a purely joke-oriented comic. He’s somewhat of the prefect comedian to kick off this series which looks at comedy routines as if they were an argument or an Op-ed. Nimesh has actually written Op-Eds for the NY Times. We discuss being kicked off stage at Columbia University, eviscerating the healthcare system when over a dozen of your cousins are doctors, and more about Indian President Narendra Modi than most conversations with comics usually include.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Does unemployment whiplash mean recession?

It's Jobs Friday! It's that time of the month where we check in on the American worker.

In September, 254,000 jobs were added to the US economy and the unemployment rate ticked down very slightly to 4.1%. It's unexpectedly strong, and relieving news for workers after a pretty lackluster summer.

But ... given how the labor market cooled over summer, is the labor market still on thin ice? And if there were to be a plummet in jobs, could anything be done to speed up the recovery?

Today on the show: How it's easier to break the economy than to fix it, and whether we can escape from the patterns of the past.

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The Sahm Rule With The Eponymous Economist
How much would you do this job for? And other indicators

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Oct. 4, 2024

All seven members of the Chicago Board of Education announced Friday they will be resigning. Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has to figure out how to close a massive budget gap, and local colleges and universities have imposed more restrictions on protest on campus. Reset goes behind those headlines and more with Chicago Sun-Times education reporter Nader Issa and Axios Chicago reporter Carrie Shepherd. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.