On the "CBS News Weekend Roundup", host Allison Keyes gets the latest on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran from CBS News White House Correspondent Linda Kenyon. We'll hear from CBS's Jan Crawford about the Supreme Court's decision allowing Tennessee to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, and what it means for LGBTQ rights. In the "Kaleidoscope with Allison Keyes" segment, a discussion about Juneteenth in a deeply divided nation.
David Plotz talks with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. They discuss what’s memoir and what’s less than memoir in the comic novel, David’s own contribution to the book, and more.
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The Justices seem intent on packing their summer vacation bags and getting on their way.
Earlier in the week, the court’s conservative supermajority upheld a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids. The logic behind the decision was…lacking (Slate Plus members can hear about this right now). In this episode, Dahlia Lithwick talks to Chase Strangio, the lawyer for the Tennessee plaintiffs, about where we go from here.
Meanwhile, don’t miss the significance of Friday’s batch of rulings: co-host Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to talk about the implications in cases seemingly about vaping and faxes and gas stations, but with much bigger implications. He also breaks down why Elena Kagan keeps joining the conservatives, and whether it foreshadows something bigger headed our way (light-at-end-of-tunnel-or-oncoming-train-dot-gif).
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Untruths sneak into our lives in all kinds of ways. Sometimes they’re outright lies. Blatant misinformation.
But in this episode, we’re going to talk about something else - those sneaky numbers and claims that bounce around our society and that aren’t exactly false, but are leading you down the wrong path.
That’s the subject of a book called May Contain Lies by Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School.
Tim talks to Alex about the statistical claims that might not be wrong, but aren’t right either – and how to make sure you aren’t fooled by them yourself.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound mix: Andrew Garratt
Editor: Richard Vadon
This special edition of ICHH Weekly compiles the complete Anti-Vax America series by guest host Steven Monacelli.
- Viral Texas
- Anti-Vax Genealogy
- God's Will
- Soft Eugenics
- Could It Happen Here?
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release on bail Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist detained since March without being criminally charged
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed near aid sites since late May. The Israeli military has repeatedly said it will investigate such reports. We ask why this keeps happening.
President Trump says he's still deciding whether to order the U.S. military to join Israel in taking out Iran's nuclear sites. Columbia grad student protester Mahmoud Khalil ordered released. Appeals court okays Trump's use of national guard in Los Angeles.
The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. But now, President Trump has said that this anti-corruption law is crippling American businesses. Since taking office, his administration has reduced the number of investigators, killed some cases, and changed the rules.
In this episode, we look at the FCPA case against Glencore, a large commodity trading company, found guilty in 2022 for paying cash bribes in exchange for lucrative contracts all over the world.
And we go back to the inception of the law, a time when using bribes to pay off foreign officials was considered "grease in the wheels" - a reasonable (if unethical) way to get business done.
This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Erika Beras. It was produced by Willa Rubin. It was fact-checked by Emily Crawford with help from Willa Rubin. It was edited by Marianne McCune. It was engineered by James Willetts. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.
