President Trump has ordered a ban on all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, escalating pressure on the country's president. Venezuelans tell us that in a country long battered by shortages, it’s just another crisis to endure.
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Big Technology Podcast - Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. Altman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss OpenAI's plan to win in a tightening AI race. Altman dissects his company's strategy, where he sees OpenAI having an advantage, and where he expects his product lineup to go in 2026 and beyond. We discuss AI memory and personalization, the distribution vs. product debate, how OpenAI will pay for its infrastructure buildout, AI devices, AI clouds, whether we've hit AGI yet, and plenty more. Tune in for an exclusive, 1-on-1 discussion with the AI industry's top catalyst.
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The Bulwark Podcast - Patrick Gaspard: A White House Screamathon
Former Obama and Mamdani advisor Patrick Gaspard joins Tim Miller.
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Lost Debate - Are We Getting Stupider?
Are We Getting Stupider?
Andrew Rice joins The Lost Debate to ask an uncomfortable question: why are America’s schools getting worse—even in places that claim to care most about equity? Drawing on sobering national data and reporting from affluent liberal districts, Rice argues that declining standards, political complacency, and the abandonment of accountability have quietly erased decades of progress for kids. Ravi and Rice debate how both parties walked away from what worked—and why lowering expectations has become a substitute for real reform. It’s a sharp, urgent conversation about education, power, and who pays the price when adults stop demanding better for children.
Andrew Rice’s article The Big Fail (NY Magazine, Nov 2025)
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WSJ Minute Briefing - Inflation Eases to 2.7% in November, but Data Was Disrupted by Shutdown
Plus: The Bank of England and the European Central Bank make interest-rate decisions. And Trump Media & Technology Group agrees to merge with TAE Technologies. Anthony Bansie hosts.
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Inside Europe - How Gen Z toppled the Bulgarian government
Marketplace All-in-One - Can we fix America’s long-term care system?
Long-term care is expensive in the United States. With Medicaid spending cuts looming and the Trump administration’s deportation plans threatening the caregiving workforce, the system is under even more pressure. On today’s show, Allison Hoffman, health law expert at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, joins Kimberly to unpack why the caregiving industry suffers from chronic labor shortages and how the U.S. could finance long-term care differently to make it more affordable.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- "What Role Do Immigrants Play in The Direct Long-Term Care Workforce?" from KFF
- "Trump’s deportation plans threaten 400,000 direct care jobs: Older adults and people with disabilities could lose vital in-home support" from Economic Policy Institute
- "A brief history of Medicaid and America’s long struggle to establish a health care safety net" from The Conversation
- "The age-old problem of long-term care" from MIT News
- "Solving the Home Care Quandary" from The New York Times
Join us tomorrow for “Economics on Tap.” The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
Global News Podcast - Crunch talks in Brussels on Russia’s frozen assets
European Union leaders hold high-stakes negotiations over whether to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine's war effort. Belgium - where most of the assets are held - is under pressure to drop its opposition. Without the funds, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said his country's drone production would have to be cut. Also: power cuts in major cities in Sudan are blamed on drone attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. A French doctor is jailed for life for poisoning dozens of patients. Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer prize-winning war reporter, dies at the age of 91. And FIFA links up with Netflix to launch a new football game, which won't need a console.
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