Here's how a leftist, transgender, PhD dropout is winning over white supremacists and more on YouTube.
Guest: Micah Loewinger, producer at WNYC's On The Media.
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Here's how a leftist, transgender, PhD dropout is winning over white supremacists and more on YouTube.
Guest: Micah Loewinger, producer at WNYC's On The Media.
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How did a small-town eye doctor mastermind an anti-immigration movement premised on racism?
Guest: Hassan Ahmad, founder of the HMA Law Firm in Virginia. He is suing the University of Michigan to unseal the complete archives of the late John Tanton.
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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – The Godfather of the Anti-Immigration Movement
How did a small-town eye doctor mastermind an anti-immigration movement premised on racism?
Guest: Hassan Ahmad, founder of the HMA Law Firm in Virginia. He is suing the University of Michigan to unseal the complete archives of the late John Tanton.
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A scientist on the outer fringes of his field has been patiently making the case that the U.S. government applies far too conservative controls on toxins in the environment. Now, he’s trying to implement his ideas at the EPA -- by writing a sweeping new rule that could make the agency unable to regulate pollution & other contaminants.
Guest: Susanne Rust, reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Meet the EPA’s Ghost-Writer
A scientist on the outer fringes of his field has been patiently making the case that the U.S. government applies far too conservative controls on toxins in the environment. Now, he’s trying to implement his ideas at the EPA -- by writing a sweeping new rule that could make the agency unable to regulate pollution & other contaminants.
Guest: Susanne Rust, reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Mueller Speaks
Special Counsel Robert Mueller appeared determined to do two things in his House testimony on Wednesday: carry no water for partisans, and communicate the national security threat of Russia’s interference in U.S. elections.
Guest: Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, who predicted the Mueller testimony would be a “game of chicken between chickens.”
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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Mueller Speaks
Special Counsel Robert Mueller appeared determined to do two things in his House testimony on Wednesday: carry no water for partisans, and communicate the national security threat of Russia’s interference in U.S. elections.
Guest: Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, who predicted the Mueller testimony would be a “game of chicken between chickens.”
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In this episode Aaron Mak looks into Facebook’s plan to create a global cryptocurrency called Libra. For an expert opinion, he turns to Chris Brummer, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and the host of the podcast Fintech Beat. Brummer testified before the U.S. House of Representatives last week to explain why Facebook is jumping the gun with its proposal.
After the interview, Shannon Palus joins the show for this week’s edition of Don’t Close My Tabs.
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The protests in Puerto Rico are about so much more than nasty messages endorsed by the governor. The island’s political grievances were decades in the making -- and even if protesters get the governor to resign, there are more complicated power struggles ahead.
Guest: Natalia Rodríguez Medina, who has been covering Puerto Rico’s protests for Latino Rebels.
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