The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two oceans. The things Americans use every day pass through here, from gas to food. And now, this spot is also at the center of President Trump's global expansionist agenda.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just wrapped up a trip to Panama where he told the President that if China's influence over the canal isn't curbed the United States will take measures to protect its rights.
Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal has the potential to reshuffle global politics. We're meet the people and the 51-mile waterway in the middle of it all.
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Consider This from NPR - The people and the waterway at the center of the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two oceans. The things Americans use every day pass through here, from gas to food. And now, this spot is also at the center of President Trump's global expansionist agenda.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just wrapped up a trip to Panama where he told the President that if China's influence over the canal isn't curbed the United States will take measures to protect its rights.
Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal has the potential to reshuffle global politics. We're meet the people and the 51-mile waterway in the middle of it all.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just wrapped up a trip to Panama where he told the President that if China's influence over the canal isn't curbed the United States will take measures to protect its rights.
Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal has the potential to reshuffle global politics. We're meet the people and the 51-mile waterway in the middle of it all.
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The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two oceans. The things Americans use every day pass through here, from gas to food. And now, this spot is also at the center of President Trump's global expansionist agenda.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just wrapped up a trip to Panama where he told the President that if China's influence over the canal isn't curbed the United States will take measures to protect its rights.
Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal has the potential to reshuffle global politics. We're meet the people and the 51-mile waterway in the middle of it all.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has just wrapped up a trip to Panama where he told the President that if China's influence over the canal isn't curbed the United States will take measures to protect its rights.
Trump's threat to take back the Panama Canal has the potential to reshuffle global politics. We're meet the people and the 51-mile waterway in the middle of it all.
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Bad Faith - Episode 445 Promo – From “Merit” to Eugenics: Elon Musk’s Plan for America (w/ Anita Say Chan)
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Sometimes there's an interview that brings radical clarity about the current moment. Professor Anita Say Chan's book Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future ties Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the tech billionaires empowered under Trump to eugenics movement of the 19th and 20th centuries with chilling specificity. She offers two key insights: first, that the focus on "merit" is an effort to convince Americans to give up democracy (in which everyone gets a vote/say/rights on the basis of their humanity) in favor of a system where various characteristics (such as IQ/race) "qualify" one for human rights. Second, she argues that by claiming only they (and their individual genius) can save the world, tech giants are persuading Americans that government should shrink to a "benevolent autocracy" where the rich rule. As Peter Thiel has said, "I no longer believe that freedom and Democracy are compatible." Seen through the lens of the eugenics movement, the end goals become shockingly clear, as does the role the left must play.
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Tariff Madness
As Donald Trump attempts to impose a foreign and economic policy regime that has been in the doghouse for eight decades now, he is staking his presidency on ideas that seem to have been discredited by history and elementary logic. But who knows? Maybe he'll succeed. Give a listen.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - The reality stopping water pipelines to the parched western US
With so much water in the eastern U.S., why can't the region pipe some of it to its drought-prone neighbors in the West? This perennial question nags climate journalists and western water managers alike. We break down why building a pipeline is unrealistic right now for the Colorado River.
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Consider This from NPR - Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have.
We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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Consider This from NPR - Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have.
We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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Consider This from NPR - Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority that they don't, in the end, actually have.
We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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We saw it just last term, when former President Biden tried to unilaterally forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in federal student loans.
Or when he announced, days before leaving office that the 28th Amendment, on gender equality, was now the law of the land.
So are the opening moves of Trump's presidency just a spicier version of the standard playbook or an imminent threat to constitutional government as we know it?
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are quantum computers already super-powerful?
Google claim their latest quantum computer chip is able to process something in five minutes it would take a normal computer 10 septillion years to figure out.
As this is a massive amount longer than the entire history of the known universe, that seems to suggest the chip is extremely powerful.
But when you understand what?s going on, the claim doesn?t seem quite so impressive. Dr Peter Leek, a quantum computer scientist from Oxford University, explains the key context.
Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: Andrew Garratt Editor: Richard Vadon