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November 20, 2025

Cato Podcast - The Disaster Aid System: How FEMA Rewards Risk

FEMA was meant to help only when disasters exceeded state capacity. Yet today it functions primarily as a national subsidy machine, encouraging development in floodplains, bailing out wealthy coastal states, and shifting costs onto taxpayers far from the danger zones. The Cato Institute's Dominik Lett and Chris Edwards discuss how well-intentioned federal aid has created perverse incentives, bureaucratic delays, and a long tail of spending that continues decades after storms like Katrina.

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November 20, 2025

First Things Podcast - How to Talk About God (ft. Hans Boersma)

In this episode, Hans Boersma joins Rusty Reno on The Editor's Desk to talk about his recent essay, "Modernity and God-Talk," from the November 2025 issue of the magazine.

November 19, 2025

Consider This from NPR - How Chicago’s ICE resistance was born

Activists in Chicago have been tracking federal immigration enforcement agents' movements, following their cars and alerting neighbors with whistles. This resistance sprang into action in response to Trump's Operation Midway Blitz, but it's nearly a decade in the making.

NPR's Odette Yousef has the story of a strategy that activists hope can be a blueprint.

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November 19, 2025

The Indicator from Planet Money - How to avoid scammers after a natural disaster

When people lose their homes to wildfire, hurricanes or flooding, they're eager to rebuild. But scammers are also ready to take advantage. On today’s show, the lucrative business of contractor fraud and advice on how to avoid them.

Related episodes:
An indicator lost: Big disaster costs
When insurers can’t get insurance
Selling safety in the fight against wildfires

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November 19, 2025

The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Saudis Come Calling

We talk about the remarkable new relationship developing between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, the remarkable developing hostility between the U.S. and Venezuela, and the remarkable breakup journalism of Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza. Give a listen.

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November 19, 2025

Audio Mises Wire - Government Intervention, Not BlackRock, Is To Blame For The Housing Crisis

The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis

November 19, 2025

Audio Mises Wire - Why I Won’t Be Mourning Dick Cheney

Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-i-wont-be-mourning-dick-cheney

November 19, 2025

Audio Mises Wire - Origins of the Welfare State in America

We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-welfare-state-america

November 19, 2025

Pod Save America - What’s the Story We’re Telling? + Sen. Ruben Gallego (Crooked Con)

Live from Crooked Con, Jon Favreau talks to Jen Psaki, Faiz Shakir, Lis Smith, Rebecca Katz, and Adam Jentleson about the narrative we’re pitching—not just about why Trump and the MAGA loons are bad, but why Democrats are good. Then, Sen. Ruben Gallego joins Jon Lovett to talk about how Democrats can win on immigration and how to run a localized race when all politics feels national.

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November 19, 2025

The Indicator from Planet Money - Looking for love in the auto supply chain

Foreign automakers already have huge assembly plants in the U.S., but lots of parts and materials come from overseas.

To avoid costly tariffs, they gotta buy American. But … How does one meet those suppliers? How do you build a new relationship with them?

The answer: Speed dating.

Related episodes:

The old trade war that brought foreign carmakers to the U.S.

Tariffs: What are they good for?

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