Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.
Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border, and Russian missiles and drones continue to bombard Ukrainian cities.
Besides being untrue, the comments echoed a popular Kremlin talking point. And Trump's comments signaled a seismic shift in decades of U.S. foreign policy. Supporters of Ukraine and its allies, both here and abroad, were left shaken.
NPR's Joanna Kakissis and Greg Myre discuss Ukraine's future as Russia-U.S. relations thaw.
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Consider This from NPR - The fate of Ukraine hangs in the balance as Trump sides with Russia
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.
Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border, and Russian missiles and drones continue to bombard Ukrainian cities.
Besides being untrue, the comments echoed a popular Kremlin talking point. And Trump's comments signaled a seismic shift in decades of U.S. foreign policy. Supporters of Ukraine and its allies, both here and abroad, were left shaken.
NPR's Joanna Kakissis and Greg Myre discuss Ukraine's future as Russia-U.S. relations thaw.
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Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border, and Russian missiles and drones continue to bombard Ukrainian cities.
Besides being untrue, the comments echoed a popular Kremlin talking point. And Trump's comments signaled a seismic shift in decades of U.S. foreign policy. Supporters of Ukraine and its allies, both here and abroad, were left shaken.
NPR's Joanna Kakissis and Greg Myre discuss Ukraine's future as Russia-U.S. relations thaw.
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Consider This from NPR - The fate of Ukraine hangs in the balance as Trump sides with Russia
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.
Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border, and Russian missiles and drones continue to bombard Ukrainian cities.
Besides being untrue, the comments echoed a popular Kremlin talking point. And Trump's comments signaled a seismic shift in decades of U.S. foreign policy. Supporters of Ukraine and its allies, both here and abroad, were left shaken.
NPR's Joanna Kakissis and Greg Myre discuss Ukraine's future as Russia-U.S. relations thaw.
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Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border, and Russian missiles and drones continue to bombard Ukrainian cities.
Besides being untrue, the comments echoed a popular Kremlin talking point. And Trump's comments signaled a seismic shift in decades of U.S. foreign policy. Supporters of Ukraine and its allies, both here and abroad, were left shaken.
NPR's Joanna Kakissis and Greg Myre discuss Ukraine's future as Russia-U.S. relations thaw.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland
The feds want millions of businesses and other corporations to turn over sensitive information so they can snoop for evidence of crimes. It’s an affront to financial privacy, anonymous association, and other liberties. The requirement is laid out in the Corporate Transparency Act, now the subject of litgation at the Fifth Circuit. Caleb Kruckenberg represents the Texas Top Cop Shop and others in the case.
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Inside Europe - Inside Europe 20 February 2025
We hit the streets of Berlin this week for an action-packed German Elections Special! Join host, Kate Laycock and political correspondent, Thomas Sparrow, as they tiptoe through the German Parliament buildings, relax in Berlin’s most famous political hang-out, gatecrash a TV news studio, and look back on some defining moments of German political history.
Bad Faith - Episode 450 – Rule of Lawlessness (w/ Sarah Leah Whitson)
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Lawyer and Executive Director for Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) Sarah Leah Whitson returns to Bad Faith for an update on the genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, the culpability of regional Arab leadership, and Trump's latest real estate ambitions. Briahna and Sarah also debate how the Democratic Party lost to Trump and whether a focus on certain social issues was a dispositive factor in the 2024 election.
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Absolute Horror of Hamas
Today we discuss Hamas's killing of the Bibas children and the choices facing Israel as the next phase of the hostage/cease-fire deal approaches. We then move on to Donald Trump's allergy to allies and his view of global security. Give a listen.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - What happens when billions of dollars in research funding goes away
Federal funding from the National Institutes of Health has driven the biomedical research industry in cities across America including Birmingham, Alabama. It's helped support research into life-saving treatments for cancers, strokes and Parkinson's. But, the Trump Administration says the NIH is getting ripped off in how those grants are calculated. We take a look.
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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Trust and Facing the Unknown (with Rachel Botsman)
This week, Maria speaks with trust expert Rachel Botsman about her new audiobook How To Trust and Be Trusted. What is trust? Why, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, do we sometimes trust the wrong people? And what can a luxury hotel teach us about how to repair a trust that’s been broken?
And – for Pushkin+ subscribers – Nate and Maria answer a listener question about learning to feel the difference between probabilities.
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Is the United States headed toward autocracy?
That's a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to consolidate power in the White House and upend long held policies and norms.
New York Times Opinion writer M. Gessen lived through much of Russia's slide into autocracy, and wrote a book about it.
They argue that one of the ways Vladimir Putin consolidated power... was by making a series of arguments that seemed outrageous at the time — like the idea that the LGBT population was a threat to Russian sovereignty.
President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by a string of policy proposals that would have been unthinkable in any other administration.
Even if they don't go anywhere, they're reshaping the boundaries of our democracy.
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That's a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to consolidate power in the White House and upend long held policies and norms.
New York Times Opinion writer M. Gessen lived through much of Russia's slide into autocracy, and wrote a book about it.
They argue that one of the ways Vladimir Putin consolidated power... was by making a series of arguments that seemed outrageous at the time — like the idea that the LGBT population was a threat to Russian sovereignty.
President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by a string of policy proposals that would have been unthinkable in any other administration.
Even if they don't go anywhere, they're reshaping the boundaries of our democracy.
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