Month: March 2025

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘You Didn’t Hear This From Me’ is Kelsey McKinney’s gossip bible

Kelsey McKinney has built her career on gossip. The co-creator and former host of the popular podcast Normal Gossip has been interested in the topic since her upbringing in the Evangelical church, where she was taught that talking about others is a sin. Now, she's out with a new book, You Didn't Hear This From Me, which argues that gossip is a natural, morally-neutral social tool. In today's episode, McKinney joins NPR's Juana Summers for a conversation that touches on the author's religious upbringing, the relationship between gossip and misinformation, and reality TV as an opportunity for social learning.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Can the Federal Reserve stay independent?

President Trump has been on an executive order-signing spree since returning to office, with 76 so far. Today we look at two of them. Can the Fed really split up independent and non-independent roles? And what does DOGE's cost-cutting streak add up to?

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Read Me a Poem - “Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Amanda Holmes reads Denise Levertov’s “Writing in the Dark.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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CBS News Roundup - 03/03/2025 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Stocks tank on President Trump's announcement that tariffs against Canada and Mexico go into effect tomorrow. Trump continues to criticize Ukraine's president following Oval Office blowup. Pope Francis has two incidents of respiratory distress. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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The Gist - The Gist: More News, Less Gratitude

Former CBS Evening News executive producer Mosheh Oinounou joins The Gist to discuss Mo News, his fact-first, non-ideological news platform. We talk about his critiques of legacy media, what he saw from the inside, and why he believes journalism is failing as both a business and a public service.

Plus, when it comes to Ukraine the art of negotiation seems to hinge less on geopolitics and more on how much gratitude is lavished upon Trump himself.


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The Bulwark Podcast - Bill Kristol: Kleptocrats and Plutocrats

Trump is trying to chuck the post-WWII order and firmly pivot American foreign policy away from Europe and toward Putin—the poor guy who got dragged into totally-not-a-hoax Russia Russia Russia. And Lil' Marco and Lindsey rushed to defend Trump and JD against Zelensky, who dared to question in the Oval Office whether Putin could be trusted in any ceasefire deal. At the same time, DOGE is putting the lives of malnourished children and pregnant women at risk in the name of cost-cutting while Trump is planning to use taxpayer money to prop up crypto, so he and his cronies can personally profit off it even more.


Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

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