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The Indicator from Planet Money - The story behind Cuba’s economic dysfunction

This week, a powerful hurricane hit Cuba, causing nationwide electricity outages — right after a string of power failures that have plagued the country in recent months. These power outages are a low point for a country that has struggled economically for years and is experiencing mass emigration.

Today on the show, we explain why Cuba is struggling to keep the lights on and investigate the root causes of the Caribbean nation's dramatic fall.

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Bad Faith - Episode 421 – “The Power of Trump” (w/ Katie Halper, Zaid Jilani, Malaika Jabali)

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So, Trump won. And we've assembled some of my favorite leftists to unpack why. Host of the Katie Halper Show and co-host of Useful Idiots Katie Halper weighs in on the left's predictions about the impact Gaza might have on this election and takes down the mainstream media narratives that emerged immediately following Trump's win. Independent writer Zaid Jilani, who hails from swinging Georgia, offers a unique perspective on the state, as well as the choice to prioritize identity politics over the material needs of voters. Last but not least, journalist Malaika Jabali offers insights from her on-the-ground reporting in Wisconsin-- a state that ended up being an underobserved harbinger of the future of the Democratic Party.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of the Little Big Horn

One of the most famous battles in the history of the American West took place in June 1876. 

An alliance of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes faced off against the United States cavalry. 

The battle was a route and one of the most devastating losses for the American military, as well as one of the greatest victories for Plains Indians. 

The victory, however, was only temporary as the victory led to an even bigger response, and the loss was actually glorified in the United States for decades.

Learn more about the Battle of the Little Bighorn and how it shaped the American West on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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the memory palace - Sutro and the Tides

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Big Jim and the White Boy,’ a new graphic novel, reinterprets a Mark Twain classic

Since its publication in 1885, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been celebrated as one of the great American works of literature. But the novel has also been criticized for how Mark Twain stereotyped Black characters like Jim, the enslaved man who befriends Huck Finn. Now, author David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined this story with Jim at its center. Their new graphic novel, Big Jim and the White Boy, is an action story filled with adventures, fight sequences and an acknowledgment of the danger of the world Jim operates within. In today's episode, Anderson and Walker join NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the novel, including what they did to turn Jim into a multidimensional character, their decision to keep the N-word in their retelling and whether Huck and Jim were ever really friends.

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