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June 7, 2019

Cato Daily Podcast - Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Economic Patriotism’

Senator Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign has presented a broad economic plan that includes a shift in priorities for trade under the banner of "economic patriotism." Simon Lester comments.

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June 7, 2019

More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are married women flipping miserable?

Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

June 7, 2019

Pod Save America - “You can run but you can’t Hyde.” (LIVE from Chicago)

Trump’s trade war threatens the economy, Elizabeth Warren calls for a new economic patriotism, and Joe Biden reverses his position on the Hyde amendment. Illinois Congressional candidate Marie Newman joins Jon, Jon, Tommy, Dan, and Brittany Packnett on stage at the Chicago Theater.

June 6, 2019

Cato Daily Podcast - Next Steps in Prison Reform

Many federal inmates are about to be released under the First Step Act, but the road ahead for prison reform should focus more directly on putting fewer people in prison to begin with. Kevin Ring, president of FAMM Foundation, comments.

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June 5, 2019

Cato Daily Podcast - When Regulators Are Also Competitors

The Supreme Court turned away a challenge to Amtrak's regulatory power wherein the agency/company regulates its private sector rivals. What does that mean for competition between private and public entities in the future? William Yeatman comments.

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June 5, 2019

Cato Daily Podcast - Parsing the Julian Assange Indictment

How much of Julian Assange's alleged espionage was the kind of thing good reporters do every day? Patrick Eddington comments.

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June 3, 2019

Pod Save America - “Donald Trump, Diplomat.”

Trump spends the weekend picking fights with our biggest trading partner (Mexico) and our closest ally (the U.K.), the mass shooting in Virginia Beach puts gun control proposals back in the spotlight, and the Democratic candidates for president descend on California to make their case. Then London Mayor Sadiq Khan talks to Tommy about Trump’s U.K. visit, and Cherokee journalist and activist Rebecca Nagle talks to Tommy about her new podcast, This Land.

June 3, 2019

More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

June 3, 2019

Cato Daily Podcast - Kamala Harris and the Authoritarian Impulse

The policy and professional choices of U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris seem to be rooted in … no particular ideology. But her past uses of prosecutorial power show a willingness to abandon her own kinder and gentler public political commitments. Elizabeth Nolan Brown of Reason looked into the longtime prosecutor's statements and record.

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June 1, 2019

Cato Daily Podcast - The Kamala Harris Plan to Address the Gender Pay Gap

Would taxing big firms that fail to pay men and women the same achieve gender pay equity? Ryan Bourne comments on a new proposal from Senator Kamala Harris.

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