The arrest and detainment of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil by Immigration and Customs Enforcement garnered national attention.
Last week, the video of the arrest of a Turkish PhD student at Tufts University, Rumeysa Ozturk, by masked federal agents received similar attention.
In addition to Ozturk and Khalil, nearly a dozen international students and faculty at universities across the country have been detained for possible deportation as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on those who've voiced pro-Palestinian views.
The arrests have raised questions — not just about the rights of immigrants with legal status in the U.S. — but about the right to dissent, regardless of citizenship, under the Trump administration.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Is Rooftop Solar a Threat to Stable Electricity?
Big energy facilities make the grid more stable, but rooftop solar reduces the need for those plants. Regulators have a hard time negotiating the tension. Economist Lynne Kiesling comments.
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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Inexplicable’ Invasion on Our Southern Border
Say hello to your new neighbors—12 million of them.
Under the Biden Administration, illegal border crossings jumped to record numbers. Yet within 8 weeks of President Trump assuming office, border crossings plunged to the lowest in decades.
On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” VDH breaks down the step-by-step invasion on our southern border that was intricately planned and encouraged by Democrats.
“Never in the history of the United States, within four years, did the government, by intent, destroy the border, and welcome in 12 million people.”
Meanwhile, Americans needed proof of vaccination or faced being fired from their jobs.
“I suppose they thought that maybe people who were coming in without English, without high school diplomas, for the most part, without capital, and without skills would be dependent on federal charges.”
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Audio Mises Wire - Free Markets Promote Peaceful Cooperation and Racial Harmony
By their nature, free markets promote harmony between people and increase overall standards of living. This view is radically different from the ones promoted by Marxists who believe that only “class interests” matter.
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Inside Europe - Inside Europe 3 April 2025
Hungary announces it will withdraw from the ICC, Berlin moves to deport four foreign national Gaza protesters, and a French court finds Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzlement. Also: Why aren’t European leaders finding tougher words on Turkey? Can Europe really go it alone? Who will save Radio Free Europe? All that, plus the craziest spy story you ever heard!
Audio Mises Wire - Empire as the Price of Bureaucracy
Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.
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Science In Action - Earthquakes and the first breath of life on Earth
How Myanmar’s tragic earthquake left a 500km scar on the surface of the earth in just 90 seconds. Also, more hints of a link between shingles vaccines and reduced dementia, and how earth’s first oxygen breathers seem to have evolved way before there was enough oxygen to breath.
Judith Hubbard is a seismologist and earthquake analyst who has been gleaning what scientific information we can find on the tragic quake that struck Myanmar last week.
There seems to be some sort of link between the herpes virus that causes shingles and some people’s risk of Alzheimer’s dementia. At least, the latest paper appears to confirm so, according to an analysis published in Nature this week. Pascal Geldsetzer of Stanford University and colleagues have looked at data from public health records in NHS Wales in the UK, and have retrospectively performed a “natural experiment”, finding a clear suggestion that a vaccine against the virus that causes shingles seems to confer a lower likelihood of developing dementia over the subsequent seven years. Quite why this happens remains moot.
And a long time ago, and for a long time, life on earth was nought but bacteria. The atmosphere was also nearly devoid of oxygen. These ancient bacteria leave scant fossil records, whilst the rocks show a clear time – known as the Great Oxidation Event – when earth’s atmosphere transformed to something more like the oxygen rich air we breath now. A pervading chicken-and-egg question asks whether the atmosphere changed and life adapted, or did life somehow evolve and transform the atmosphere? A team publishing in Science this week have performed an innovative analysis of bacterial genomes that suggests that the ability to use oxygen in respiration evolved some 900 million years before the atmosphere transformed. The question still stands, but as the team explain, the new analysis provides at least a clear timeline for why we breath the way we do today.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | The Long-Term Focus: Crypto From a Venture Investor’s Perspective
The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and CoinFund Managing Partner and Head of Venture Investments David Pakman.
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CoinFund Managing Partner and Head of Venture Investments David Pakman joins CoinDesk to discuss the long-term potential of crypto as the industry readies for major adoption and innovation. Plus, an outlook on a world where everything is being moved on-chain.
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1A - ICYMI: A Quarter Of HHS Workforce Lost Due To Cuts
The Trump administration's cutbacks to the federal workforce continued this week at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Thousands of staffers were fired at agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the layoffs last week, an additional "reduction in force" of 10,000 people on top of the 10,000 who've already left the department this year. This amounts to one of the largest government departments losing a quarter of its workforce.
One of the agencies affected is the National Institutes of Health. The network of research centers funds much of the country's biomedical research.
We discuss what the layoffs at the NIH mean for the country's ability to research and develop medical treatments.
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Thousands of staffers were fired at agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the layoffs last week, an additional "reduction in force" of 10,000 people on top of the 10,000 who've already left the department this year. This amounts to one of the largest government departments losing a quarter of its workforce.
One of the agencies affected is the National Institutes of Health. The network of research centers funds much of the country's biomedical research.
We discuss what the layoffs at the NIH mean for the country's ability to research and develop medical treatments.
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The Bulwark Podcast - S2 Ep1013: Mallory McMorrow and Tracy Alloway: A Self-Inflicted Crisis
The market plunge is just pure Trump chaos, and perfectly matches his record as a businessman. From his numerous bankruptcies and many failures—including his airline, his casinos, his university, his water, and his steaks—he's been running one long con. And the supposedly smart people who should have known better put him back in power, somehow thinking he would never do something like destroy global trade. Meanwhile, in Michigan, where there have already been job losses directly caused by Trump's tariff war, State Senator Mallory McMorrow announced she's running for the U.S. Senate—saying she's had enough of the leadership and the bullshit in DC.
Bloomberg's Tracy Alloway and Mallory McMorrow join Tim Miller.
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Bloomberg's Tracy Alloway and Mallory McMorrow join Tim Miller.
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