On Tuesday, November 5th, as they start to tally the ballots and declare electoral votes, few states will be as scrutinized as the Silver State. We talk with veteran Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston of The Nevada Independent about his state's precarious position. Then we shift gears and discuss takeaways from the summer movie season with Sonny Bunch, Culture Editor at The Bulwark. Also on the show, a campaign win.
A new poll shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a three-point lead over former President Donald Trump. Ravi kicks off the show by delving into the latest data and what it reveals about shifting dynamics in key battleground states. He also examines how independent Dan Osborne could shake up the Nebraska Senate race, whether Elon Musk’s appearance at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania this weekend will boost Trump’s standing, and how Harris’s decision to engage with alternative media like the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast has resonated with voters.
Next, Ravi is joined by Kyle Tharp from FWIW, a weekly newsletter that breaks down the digital strategies shaping elections. They explore how social media, digital ads, and online fundraising have transformed the presidential race and the ways the campaigns have strategically leveraged platforms like TikTok and Facebook. They also explore the rise of online misinformation and how it could influence the election.
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America's financial system is inseparable from America's enormous growth, productivity, and prosperity. Many myths about financial markets persist. Norbert Michel and Jennifer Schulp detail the many critical benefits of robust financial markets in Financing Opportunity.
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Delta Blockchain Fund founder and general partner Kavita Gupta breaks down the current trends in the crypto market, with a focus on catalysts including the presidential election, aFederal Reserve rate cut and altcoin activities. Plus, insights on potential liquidity concern in the digital assets space.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “Markets Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez, and edited by Victor Chen. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.
Is 2024 the year the music festival died? Festivals are getting canceled left and right, from Northern California to Florida to Virginia.
Big name festivals that used to sell out in minutes struggled to sell tickets this year, too, like Burning Man and Coachella.
And it's not just America. By one count, over 60 music festivals were canceled in the UK this year alone. In Australia, so many festivals were canceled that one newspaper there recently asked, are the nation's music festivals extinct?
Today on the show, the music festival recession. What's behind it and is it temporary or a permanent cultural shift?
Trump and Vance are pioneering a form of politics where American power means nothing, everything is bad, and politicians focus on tearing people down—and getting other Americans to do the same. Plus, the challenge of defining freedom, why conservative Jews are giving Trump a pass on his antisemitism, and a good and insightful poll on the presidential race.
Octavia Butler's 1993 novel "The Parable of the Sower" contains a powerful and poignant vision of the United States of the future, one that rings scarily true in the present. The 2024 of Butler's 1993 work isn't so far away from the 2024 in which we're all currently living.
Butler published a sequel, Parable of the Talents, in 1998. Both feature a protagonist named Lauren Olamina, a young woman trying to survive and make a life for herself.
So what can we learn from Butler's novel? What makes both Sower and Talents so enduring as a series of speculative science fiction? And what does it mean that our world more and more bears resemblance to works of apocalyptic fiction?
We discuss Butler's novels, and the message of hope she has at the center of this dark story.
Host Christine Lee breaks down the news in the crypto industry from Crypto.com suing the SEC to Cardi B's WAP token.
"CoinDesk Daily" host Christine Lee breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as crypto exchange Crypto.com files a lawsuit against the U.S. SEC. Plus, Hong Kong SFC plans to approve more crypto exchanges to operate in the region and Cardi B promotes WAP token.
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee, Jennifer Sanasie, Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.
Since 2021, every single active voter in Nevada received a mail-in ballot. Chuck Muth, president of the Citizen Outreach Foundation in Nevada, tells The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle that dozens of voters have been found on the rolls with home addresses listed at casinos, bars, and other locations in violation of the law. So what can be done? Muth breaks it down for "The Federalist Radio Hour."
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