Welcome the Wretched, a new book by legal scholar César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, makes the case that the immigration and criminal legal systems in the U.S. have become way too intertwined over time – and they should be separated. In today's episode, Cuauhtémoc García Hernández walks Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes through the history of how we got to this point of criminalizing immigration. He also explains why he doesn't think immigrants should be deported for breaking the law, and how racism operates in immigration enforcement.
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One of the central figures in the drama of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire was Marc Antony.
He was a rather odd figure in Roman History. He came from an upper-class, but not necessarily elite, family.
Neither was he wasn’t a great general. Yet he was at the right place at the right time, and his actions played a huge part in the republic's collapse.
Learn more about Marcus Antonius, aka Marc Antony, and how he found himself at the center of Roman history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
One day every year, the United States celebrates its biggest non-official holiday: Super Bowl Sunday.
The championship game of the National Football League is almost always the biggest television audience of the year and one of the most expensive tickets for any sporting event.
However, it wasn’t always that way. In fact, it wasn’t even called the Super Bowl.
Learn more about the Super Bowl and how it became so big on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the third mission to land on the moon.
It never achieved its mission objective.
Despite having failed in its goal, it still managed to return to Earth and, in its own way, achieved a type of success it could never have planned for.
Learn more about Apollo 13, the most successful failure in the history of space flight, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
In a surprising new trend, young men and women around the world are dividing by gender on their politics and ideologies. Whilst young women are becoming more liberal, young men are becoming more conservative. Tim Harford speaks to John Burn-Murdoch, Columnist and Chief Data Reporter at the Financial Times, about why this global phenomena may be occurring and Dr Heejung Chung, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, explains why the ideological divisions between young men and women in South Korea are some of the most extreme.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Debbie Richford
Series Producer: Tom Colls
Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Mix: Neil Churchill
Editor: Richard Vadon
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Today's podcast examines the consuming disaster that was Biden's day yesterday and what on earth will happen going forward. Can he stay on the ticket? Will someone in his ambit bring up the 25th amendment? Will Democratic enthusiasm begin to resemble a flatline? And why did he throw Israel under the bus? Give a listen.