It’s been a week since Syrian rebels overtook the country’s capital and forced out the longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad. This has all been a long time coming, but now a lot is happening very quickly. In this week’s How We Got Here, Max takes a look at the handful of other countries whose governments have also been overthrown by rebels to understand what it means for Syria that the guys with guns are now in control. Will they be tolerant and pluralistic — or despotic and cruel? Will they govern wisely or capriciously? How will they align Syria within the politics of the Middle East, and what will that mean for the rest of the world?
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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Chris Wray Just Made Way For Something Even Worse Than Kash Patel
Last week, we examined the deeply worrying prospect of Kash Patel, FBI director. This week, that possibility became even more worrisome with respect to the future of the FBI, all sparked by current director Christopher Wray’s announcement of his intention to step down. To kick off this week’s show, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern, who explains why Wray’s decision is very bad news for the law and the rule of law.
Next, the planet: Last summer, we tried to absorb the sheer scale of the shift in the constitutional landscape following a run of cases at the end of the last term that gave the courts the power to reshape the administrative state from the bench, and to impede the tools of the environmental protection trade at a time when the climate is in crisis. But the news cycle moved on and the global climate alarm got snoozed again. That alarm was surely ringing again at One, First Street this week, when a case that could reshape the nation’s biggest environmental law was argued at the Supreme Court.
Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado comes to the court as a dispute over how much review is due to a railroad plan that will carry waxy, crude oil through environmentally sensitive areas, and send said waxy crude on its way to already polluted and health blighted gulf communities. Sam Sankar of Earth Justice was on hand to explain how this weedy case paints a very clear picture of the Supreme Court conservative majority’s fondness for grabbing cases that are vehicles for achieving their preferred policy outcomes, but then finding themselves in a bit of a pickle when its time to craft a new test for an old problem.
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Short Wave - What’s A Weather Forecast Worth?
The federal government has been tracking the weather for more than 150 years. Yet over the last few decades, the rise of the Internet and big tech have made weather forecasting a more crowded space. Today, our colleagues at NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator report on the value of an accurate forecast and the debate over who should control weather data. Follow The Indicator on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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CBS News Roundup - 12/14/2024 | Weekend Roundup
On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes has team coverage of the latest fallout from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and the strong feelings around the nation about how large insurance companies are treating their customers. We'll have the latest on those drones circling the skies on the East Coast. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment. a discussion about a likely cemetery for enslaved people found at the historic home of the nation's 7th president, Andrew Jackson.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Why the US economy is still the envy of the world
The Economist's Simon Rabinovitch argues the U.S. economy has a set of structural advantages that have allowed it to perform remarkably well in the last couple of years compared to other developed countries. But could President-elect Donald Trump's second term in office put that edge at risk? Adrian Ma spoke with Rabinovitch for a recent episode of The Indicator. This episode is an extended cut of their conversation, previously released for Planet Money+ supporters.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1297: Verea’s Calculating Machine
Episode: 1297 Ramon Verea's calculating machine: inventing to make a point. Today, invention serves an unexpected purpose.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - How many Americans live ?paycheck to paycheck??
Are most Americans barely holding their head above water when it comes to personal finances? That?s what various US politicians and news outlets keep suggesting. They can?t stop using a statistic about people living ?paycheck to paycheck?. But what does this really mean?
We go behind the headlines to unpick the numbers. Contributor: Ben Krauss, journalist Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Vicky Baker and Lizzy McNeill Series Producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound Engineer: Andrew Mills Editor: Richard Vadon
It Could Happen Here - It Could Happen Here Weekly 160
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
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Kash Patel: Trump's FBI Pick
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What Next for Syria?
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Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized By Pain
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The Moral Economy of Inflation or Why Trump Won
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You Already Know How to Organize
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Kash Patel: Trump's FBI Pick
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/politics/kash-patel.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/us/politics/kash-patel-bravado-baggage-fbi.html
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-trump-patel-fisa-russia-2d215ded96ad8a08689b6f7f0b2d49ec
What Next for Syria?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tJgepOyOt9cjXRjLE4kHdOhoCesJx-l_S9hJ2foQxnI/edit?tab=t.0
https://youtu.be/kuj8zPLY_4E?si=D2SVT1KBQzXwrxEU
The Moral Economy of Inflation or Why Trump Won
https://strangematters.coop/supply-chain-theory-of-inflation/
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/157973/1/bna-259_20090522_nb_casp_full_indexed.pdf
https://www.jstor.org/stable/650244
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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting death could be returned to New York next week. U.S. military flies American released from Syrian prison out of the country. Russia launches one of the largest air attacks against Ukraine since the war began.
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