Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has sold more than 300 million books since the first installment was published in 2007. The star of the series is the famous line drawing, Greg Heffley, a frequently frowning, middle-school-aged antihero. Now, Kinney is out with Partypooper, the 20th book in the series. In today’s episode, Here & Now’s Robin Young travels to An Unlikely Story in Plainville, Massachusetts, the bookstore Kinney owns with his wife. There, Young and Kinney discuss the inspiration behind Greg, whom Kinney says is a “funhouse” version of himself.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - He Wrote About Anti-Fascism—Then Fled the Country | 2025 in Review
All this week, What Next and What Next: TBD are re-airing some of our favorite conversations from throughout the year and checking back with the people in those conversations to see how things have – or haven’t – changed. This episode is from October.
In an executive order, Donald Trump declared “Antifa” a terrorist organization. As it isn’t an organization, there aren’t leaders to target, so zealous conservatives took aim at Mark Bray, a Rutgers professor who wrote a book about fighting fascism eight years ago. The clumsy attempts to get him fired didn’t bother him—but the doxxing and death threats were enough to convince him he needed to leave America.
Guest: Mark Bray, assistant teaching professor at Rutgers, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2834: Wombs and Witchcraft
Episode: 2834 Wombs and Witchcraft: Edward Jorden's Suffocation of the Mother (1603). Today, wombs and witchcraft.
Global News Podcast - BBC follows journey of Gazan child
A Palestinian baby who was evacuated for medical treatment has returned to Gaza and is back in hospital. The BBC has discussed Siwar Ashour's case with the Jordanian and Israeli governments. Also: President Trump announces new US navy battleships named after himself; Nigeria designates kidnappers as terrorists; Call of Duty creator Vince Zampella dies; Amazon warns of North Korean agents applying for remote IT jobs; and a Spanish town turns its luck around with huge "El Gordo" lottery win.
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Read Me a Poem - “Absence” by Elizabeth Jennings
Amanda Holmes reads Elizabeth Jennings’s “Absence.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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It Could Happen Here - CZM Rewind: Abundance, Or How To Sell Tech Fascism To Liberals
Mia talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.
Orignal Air Date: 9.9.25
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/whats-the-matter-with-abundance-harris?ref=newintermag.com
https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/#fn16
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Abundance-Ecosystem-Report-Final.pdf
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2025/with-the-argument-the-left-gets-a-new-publication
http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2022/01/washingtons-newest-think-tank-institute.html
https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism
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Ryan welcomes Anil Dash, writer and former Stack Overflow board member, back to the show to discuss how AI is not a magical technology, but rather the normal next step in computing’s evolution. They explore the importance of democratizing access to technology, the unique challenges that LLMs’ non-determinism poses, and how developers can keep Stack Overflow’s ethos of community alive in a world of AI.
Episode notes:
Anil is a tech entrepreneur (former CEO at our sister company Fog Creek Software) and writer. You can find him at his blog anildash.com and on Linkedin.
Check out the last time Anil was on the pod in 2020 to talk all things Glitch and Glimmer.
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The World in Brief from The Economist - Ellison backs Paramount bid; Trump appoints envoy to Greenland, and more
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman and one of the world’s richest people, pledged a personal guarantee of roughly $40bn to backstop Paramount’s takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery.
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PBS News Hour - Science - Trump halts East Coast projects in latest blow against wind power
The Trump administration announced an immediate pause on the leases for five large-scale offshore wind farms off the East Coast. The Interior Department provided few details, but said the Pentagon believed the turbines could obscure and confuse radar signals. It's the latest move by the White House taking aim at wind power. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien has been tracking these projects. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
PBS News Hour - World - News Wrap: Trump names Louisiana governor as his special envoy to Greenland
In our news wrap Monday, Denmark is pushing back against President Trump's move naming Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as his special envoy to Greenland, Trump announced plans for what he called a new 'Trump class' of warships, a car bomb killed a senior Russian general in Moscow and Jim Beam is pausing production at its main distillery in Kentucky for all of next year. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy