If the proposed defense budget is passed, it will account for roughly 3.5 % of U.S. GDP. The military buys everything from pens and paper clips to fighter jets and submarines. But the market for military equipment is very different from the commercial market. And sometimes the system results in the Pentagon, and taxpayers, overpaying. This week, we're bringing you a three-part series on the defense industry.
Today, we unpack how defense costs are getting so high and why it's happening.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Prohibition
On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed. It banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
The path to the 18th Amendment was something that was almost a century in the making, and once it was passed, it was widely ignored both illegally and through numerous legal loopholes.
Finally, after being in place for almost 14 years, it was repealed with overwhelming popular support using a constitutional method that has never been used before or since.
Learn more about prohibition, how it came about, and how it ended on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Only Say Good Things’ chronicles Crystal Hefner’s life at the Playboy mansion
Crystal Harris was only 21 when she entered the Playboy mansion for the first time. Within a few days, the college student moved in. She later married Hugh Hefner, and stayed by his side until his death in 2017. In her new memoir, Only Say Good Things, Hefner looks back on the paradox of sexual freedom and strict rules she lived by at the mansion. She tells NPR's Michel Martin how her perspective on love, liberation and control has changed since she left.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Universe 25 (Encore)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create a utopia? A place where all your wants and needs were taken care of and there was never any fear of harm?
Creating such a world for humans may be far off, but one man did try to create a utopia for rats. He created a world that had everything they would want and where all their needs are taken care of.
It didn’t turn out like anyone expected.
Learn more about Universe 25, and how a utopia turned into a dystopia, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - What is the Deal With SpaceX’s Starship? (Redux)
In 1967, the very first Saturn V rocket was launched. It was the largest rocket ever built.
55 years later, it is still the largest rocket ever launched.
However, it might not hold that distinction for much longer. There is a new rocket in town and it might soon displace the Saturn V, and in the process, revolutionize space flight.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Tumbling Chinese stocks and rapid Chipotle hiring
It's Indicators of the Week, that time each Friday when we look at the most fascinating numbers from the news. Today, we explain the different directions of the Chinese and American economies ... and how a burrito can be a bellwether.
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China's Big Tech Crackdown
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Young, "spoiled and miserable" in China (Apple / Spotify)
The mess at the heart of China's economy (Apple / Spotify)
China's Big Tech Crackdown
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Black Sheep’ and ‘This Wretched Valley’ use horror to question morality
It's never too early for spooky season. Today, we've got two horror books that explore relationships, cynicism and arrogance. First, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Rachel Harrison about Black Sheep, which follows a disillusioned protagonist grappling with religious fanaticism and family ties when she returns to the Satanic community she was raised in. Then, Jenny Kiefer discusses her novel This Wretched Valley, which takes inspiration from the Dyatlov Pass Incident to put an influencer and Ph.D. students at odds with nature.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The James Webb Space Telescope (Redux)
Sometime within the next week of my recording this episode, hopefully, a rocket will be launched from the European Space Agency’s launch facility in French Guyana.
On it will be NASA’s latest and greatest space telescope. It is unlike anything that has ever been launched into space before, and if successful, it will allow us to see further than we ever have.
Learn more about the James Webb Space Telescope and how it will radically advance astronomy on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - How niche brands got into your local supermarket
From salsas to barbecue sauces to refrigerated beverages, small artisanal brands are infiltrating grocery shelves everywhere. How did this happen? Today on the show, we team up with Dan Pashman of The Sporkful food podcast to follow the rise of niche soda maker Olipop, and share the hidden incentives that have grocers making shelf space for these products.
Listen to The Sporkful on Apple or Spotify.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Michele Norris’ ‘Our Hidden Conversations’ examines race and identity in the U.S.
More than a decade ago, former NPR host Michele Norris started the Race Card Project. It was a simple premise: She asked people to send in six words that summarized their thoughts on race. Now, hundreds of thousands of submissions later, Norris expands on some of those opinions and experiences in the new book, Our Hidden Conversations. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the context behind some of the submissions — like "I wish he was a girl" — and the way feeling "invisible" has changed in recent years.
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