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Cato Daily Podcast - Parsing the Articles on #ImpeachmentEve
A day ahead of an impeachment vote in the U.S. House, why these particular articles of impeachment? Gene Healy comments.
Pod Save America - “A jury of Trump’s peers.”
The House prepares to impeach Donald Trump as new polling shows an uptick in support, Chuck Schumer tries to prevent Mitch McConnell from rigging the Senate trial, and the Democratic presidential candidates prepare for their final debate of 2019.
Cato Daily Podcast - States Nudge NCAA to Give Student Athletes a Break
First California did it, and now Florida is looking at ways to give student athletes a way to profit from their own likenesses and names, rejecting NCAA rules. Sal Nuzzo of the James Madison Institute details the idea.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Elizabeth Warren, Trust Buster
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren wants to break up big tech firms and impose new regulation on firms with high revenues. Walter Olson discusses what that might look like in practice.
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Cato Daily Podcast - Protecting Liberty with State Constitutions
State constitutions continue to serve as powerful and underappreciated protectors against overweening government. Rick Esenberg of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty comments.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Koalas
As bushfires rage in Australia, the plight of the koala made front-page news around the world. There were warnings that fires wiped out 80% of the marsupial's habitat and that koalas are facing extinction.
We check the claims with the help of National Geographic's Natasha Daly and Dr Christine Hosking of the University of Queensland.
(A Koala receives treatment at the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie after its rescue from a bushfire. Credit: Safeed Khan/Getty Images)
Cato Daily Podcast - The Jones Act and Hawaii
The shipping regulation known as the Jones Act turns 100 next year. It's long past time for it to go according to Keli'i Akina of Hawaii's Grasroot Institute.
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Pod Save America - “The Do Something Democrats.”
Democrats are on the verge of voting to impeach Donald Trump and to approve his trade deal, Bernie Sanders is underestimated, Joe Biden contemplates serving one term, and Pete Buttigieg releases his McKinsey clients. Then Mike Isaac of the New York Times talks to Dan about Uber, Facebook, and tech industry culture.
Cato Daily Podcast - The Bernie Plan to Regulate Labor Markets
Bernie Sanders has a series of labor market interventions he'd like to see, including ending at-will employment. Ryan Bourne says it's a terrible idea.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Long Lie about Afghanistan
Newly revealed interviews show the misrepresentations and frustrations over a U.S.-led war in Afghanistan that went badly awry. John Glaser argues that one clear lesson is to stay skeptical of government justifications for war.
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