Betty Shamieh was the first Palestinian American playwright to have a play produced off-Broadway. She describes her debut novel, Too Soon, as a "Palestinian American Sex and the City." The novel follows three Palestinian American women across generations as they navigate love and identity. In today's episode, Shamieh speaks with NPR's Pien Huang about using comedy as a way to humanize characters who may be dehumanized in the real world, the 10 year writing process for the book, and how she didn't necessarily want to write it, but she knew she had to.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - The reality stopping water pipelines to the parched western US
With so much water in the eastern U.S., why can't the region pipe some of it to its drought-prone neighbors in the West? This perennial question nags climate journalists and western water managers alike. We break down why building a pipeline is unrealistic right now for the Colorado River.
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The trouble with water discounts
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How Colorado towns are trying to get some water certainty
The trouble with water discounts
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Short Wave - Not All Nature Comebacks Are Equal
Ecologist Gergana Daskalova moved back to the small Bulgarian town of her childhood. It's a place many people have abandoned — and that's the very reason she returned. At the same time as land is being cleared around the world to make room for agriculture, elsewhere farmland is being abandoned for nature to reclaim. But what happens when people let the land return to nature? This episode, science reporter Dan Charles explains why abandoned land has conservationists and researchers asking: If we love nature, do we tend it or set it free?
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Consider This from NPR - Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have.
We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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Consider This from NPR - Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have.
We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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Consider This from NPR - Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have.
We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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Up First from NPR - Time to Leave
The recent wildfires around Los Angeles are just the most recent example of how extreme weather driven by climate change is affecting housing across the country. Millions of homes are at risk of flooding, fire or drought. Increasingly, local municipalities are facing hard decisions about whether to tear homes down or ban new construction altogether.
Today on The Sunday Story, we share an episode that originally aired last year in which reporters Rebecca Hersher and Lauren Sommer visit three communities in the US trying to balance the need for housing with the threat of climate-driven disaster.
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Today on The Sunday Story, we share an episode that originally aired last year in which reporters Rebecca Hersher and Lauren Sommer visit three communities in the US trying to balance the need for housing with the threat of climate-driven disaster.
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Up First from NPR - Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
The White House says President Trump will implement tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China on Saturday. Also, the FAA prohibits most helicopters from flying near Reagan Washington National Airport.
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Planet Money - How DeepSeek changed the market’s mind
On Monday, the stock market went into a tizzy over a new AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek. It seemed to be just as powerful as many of its American competitors, but its makers claimed to have made it far more cheaply, using far less computing power than similar AI apps like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. In one day, hundreds of billions of dollars were wiped off the valuations of companies related to AI.
This week, investors seemed suddenly to change their minds about what our AI future would look like and which companies will (or won't) profit from it. Will we really need all those high-end computer chips, after all? What about power plants to provide electricity for all the energy-hungry AI data centers?
On today's show – how DeepSeek might have changed the economics of artificial intelligence forever.
This episode was produced by Willa Rubin with an assist from James Sneed. It was edited by Keith Romer and engineered by Neil Tevault. Research help from Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.
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This week, investors seemed suddenly to change their minds about what our AI future would look like and which companies will (or won't) profit from it. Will we really need all those high-end computer chips, after all? What about power plants to provide electricity for all the energy-hungry AI data centers?
On today's show – how DeepSeek might have changed the economics of artificial intelligence forever.
This episode was produced by Willa Rubin with an assist from James Sneed. It was edited by Keith Romer and engineered by Neil Tevault. Research help from Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.
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State of the World from NPR - Rwandan-Backed Rebels Strengthen Hold in Eastern Congo
Rebel forces continue to claim more Congolese territory coveted for its rich mineral resources. In Myanmar, former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed and the country is mired in a brutal civil war.
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