Are Hollywood films ignoring women? As this is the 90th year of the Academy Awards - we find out how many ?Best Picture? winners pass the Bechdel Test. This is a light-hearted way of challenging whether a film meets a low standard of female representation. They have to fulfil three criteria: are there at least two named female characters in the cast? Do those two women speak to each other? And do they have a conversation about something other than a man? In collaboration with the BBC?s 100 Women team, we reveal the answer but also look at what other ways we could be assessing representation in film.
Cato Daily Podcast - Why Won’t Courts Question Qualified Immunity?
Courts are loathe to take cases that might alter or weaken qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that protects police from some of the consequences of serious misconduct. Why? William Baude of the University of Chicago Law School comments.
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Pod Save America - “The Committee to Defraud America.”
Hope Hicks is out, Jared Kushner is in trouble, Jeff Sessions is beleaguered, and Donald Trump is so angry he just might…implement tariffs on steel and support gun control measures? Then the Atlantic’s Natasha Bertrand talks to Tommy about the latest in the Mueller investigation.
Cato Daily Podcast - Won’t Someone Please Think of the Parents?!?
Parents enmeshed in the child protective services system often are asked to prove a negative, that they've done nothing wrong, in order to get their children back. Dan Greenberg of Advance Arkansas Institute comments on recent legislative efforts.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Case against Qualified Immunity
"Qualified immunity" is a doctrine that protects police from misconduct that would send someone without a badge to jail. Clark Neily and Jay Schweikert discuss the controversy.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Some Bad Reasons to Love/Hate Bitcoin
When fans and detractors of cryptocurrencies talk, they need to understand the economic fundamentals behind what they're saying. Will Luther comments.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
Can the state ban you from wearing any political message at the polling place? Wen Fa is an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation. We discussed his case before the Supreme Court, Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky.
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Pod Save America - “MAGA hats and perjury traps.”
The Stoneman Douglas students start to move the needle on gun control, the Schiff memo obliterates the Nunes memo, Trump’s lawyers are worried he’ll lie to Mueller, and Democrats have a few primary problems. Then Ana Marie Cox joins Jon, Jon, and Tommy to talk about what she saw and heard at CPAC.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics
What?s the most successful nation? (0?40?) We look at population, GDP per capita and ski areas of the countries with the most medals.
How do you judge a country?s ?best? performance? (3.45?)
What are the chances of dead heat in a race? (6?35?) The two-man bobsleigh event ended in a dead heat with both Canada and Germany achieving a time of three minutes 16.86 seconds.
Is this the coldest winter games? (8?41?)
Cato Daily Podcast - Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy
Trade plays a huge role in the wealth that Americans enjoy, so why has it been so controversial? Douglas A. Irwin is author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy.
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