President Trump’s trade deadline passes - but some of its most draconian tariffs won’t go into effect until next week. A top White House advisor will visit Gaza today, as Palestinians swarm aid trucks. And a White House decree aims to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test.
In 1970, the United States passed the Organized Crime Control Act, which established the Witness Security Program or WITSEC.
Since being enacted, WITSEC has had thousands of witnesses and family members enter the program, none of whom, to date, have been killed under their protection.
The program is a key weapon in the fight against organized crime and has been a subject of public fascination.
Learn about the Witness Security Program, why it exists, and its impact on the American justice system on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Vice President JD Vance gave a speech recently that deserved more attention than it got. Accepting an award at a right-wing think tank, he argued that there’s a fundamental brokenness in how we define who is an American. He explained that this is the root of many of our country’s problems: a national identity that has become too broad.
That was also a core idea of the 2018 book “The Virtue of Nationalism,” which caused a sensation on the right. Its author, the Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony, went on to build a movement. For years, he has hosted NatCon — short for National Conservatism — conferences. Those events have featured speakers like Marco Rubio, who is now the secretary of state, and Senator Josh Hawley. And one of the most reliable speakers, year after year, has been Vance.
I wanted to talk to Hazony. What exactly is his argument, his worldview? And are the Trump administration’s policies putting it into practice?
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Laura answers a question about selling your home and explains a legit way to skip taxes or pay significantly less, called the capital gains tax exclusion.
This week, a viral video of a robo-traffic-cop in Shanghai has the team contemplating the science of traffic. How do traffic jams with no discernible cause actually form? Does the weather experience traffic jams? And why do our cords also seem to get tangled in their own little cord-traffic-jams no matter how hard we try to keep them separate?
Christine Yohannes from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Tristan Ahtone in Helsinki, Finland, join Marnie Chesterton to discuss all this, plus many more Unexpected Elements.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Christine Yohannes and Tristan Ahtone
Producers: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, with Alice Lipscombe-Southwell and Lucy Davies
In this episode, Christopher Caldwell joins Rusty Reno on The Editor's Desk to talk about his recent review, "The Great Excommunicator" from the August/September 2025 issue of the magazine.
Why does critical theory matter today? In Critical Theory: The Basics(Routledge, 2024), Martin Shuster, a Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, explores the history, thought and legacy of the Frankfurt School to demonstrate the urgency of critical theory for explaining the world. Beginning with the idea of needless suffering as a concept animating the theory and practice of thinkers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Benjamin, the book ranges widely across topics including subjectivity, the social world, art, culture and religion. An accessible introduction to complex, but urgent, thought, the book is essential reading for arts, humanities and social science scholars, as well as for anyone who would like to change the world.
Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Manchester.
We’re talking about historic new tariffs President Trump unveiled for countries all around the world.
Also, the response to last month’s Texas floods is being scrutinized as new flooding impacts a different part of the country.
Plus: the latest and most ambitious project yet in Trump’s White House makeover, which “rite of passage” is coming to public schools, and how Justin Timberlake is responding to backlash from his own fans.
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