Nikki Haley loses the South Carolina primary by 20 points but vows to stay in the race. Donald Trump starts to make a play for her voters—and pivots to the general election with some great reminders of why he lost the last one. Nazis get a warm welcome at CPAC, and attendees throw their support behind VP hopefuls Kristi Noem and Vivek Ramaswamy. And later, Lovett talks with MSNBC’s Andrew Weissmann and Strict Scrutiny’s Melissa Murray about all the latest Trump legal news and their new book, The Trump Indictments.
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Amanda Holmes reads Margaret Walker’s “I Want to Write.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
Any day now, social media platform Reddit is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), earmarking shares for its most dedicated users. On today's show, our friends at WBUR podcast Endless Thread help us unpack why Reddit is making this move, and what it might mean for Reddit's stock.
If an arrest warrant is issued without probable cause that a crime has been committed, the person arrested can sue for “malicious prosecution.” But there's a catch, and the Supreme Court will have to grapple with it this term. Tommy Berry explains.
2024 Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West returns to Bad Faith to discuss the recent controversy surrounding his tweet offering prayers for the family of recently deceased Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny, the perverse incentives built into left media, and why he's lost the "deep respect" he once held for Dr. Jill Stein. Are these petty grievances, or something more? Dr. West also offers an update on the status of his campaign, including important ballot access issues.
Henry Olsen, election-watcher extraordinaire, joins us today to analyze the results of the interesting South Carolina primary and the fact that across three Republican primary contests, Donald Trump is winning decisively, even overwhelmingly—but with around 40 percent of the primary electorate choosing someone else (mostly Nikki Haley). What does this portend for November? Give a listen.
There's a moment in Carrie Sun's memoir, Private Equity, when she remembers trying to answer a text for her high-pressure hedge fund job while running on the treadmill. It ended poorly — and Sun says, looking back, it was a good metaphor for the toll her career was taking on her life. In today's episode, Sun speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about the moral, mental and physical sacrifices we normalize for work, and why maybe that's not such a good thing.
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One of the most common food items consumed today is cruciferous vegetables. Even if you aren’t familiar with the term, you almost certainly have consumed some before, and there is a good chance you do so on a regular basis.
What many people don’t know is that these vegetables are actually rather modern.
Early neolithic humans never ate broccoli, cabbage, or Brussels sprouts because humans invented these foods.
Learn more about cruciferous vegetables and where they came from on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
During the Second World War, one of the most distinguished American aviation units was one that no one thought would even have existed when the war began.
It was a unit of African American aviators who were trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabam.
Over a thousand airmen were trained and served in the European theater of the war and were some of the most decorated pilots of the conflict.
Learn more about the Tuskegee Airmen and their incredible story on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
