Conservative activist Charlie Kirk is killed while visiting a college campus, setting off new concerns about political violence. NATO scrambles jets to shoot down Russian drones in Polish airspace. And NASA says it’s found compelling evidence of ancient life on Mars.
We extend our record-breaking run with a discussion of the Court's two big recent emergency docket rulings: Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo and NIH v. American Public Health Association.
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Charlie Kirk Assassination – Turning Point USA founder shot and killed at Utah Valley University at age 31.
Tributes & Legacy – President Trump called Kirk “great and legendary,” praising his heart for America’s youth. Kirk built one of the largest youth conservative organizations in the nation, inspiring thousands to defend faith, freedom, and the Constitution.
Alabama Ties – Spoke at ALGOP Summer Dinner in 2018 and at a Tuscaloosa event in 2021 against vaccine mandates and critical race theory.
Survived By – Kirk is survived by his wife Erika and their two young children.
Investigation – Authorities say a suspect was detained at the scene, but details remain limited.
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Crusading for Globalization: US Multinationals and Their Opponents Since 1945 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) tells the story of an extraordinarily influential group of business executives at the helms of the largest US multinational corporations and their quest to drive globalization forward over the last eight decades. Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl argues that the spectacular expansion of international investment, trade, and production after 1945 cannot be understood without considering the role played by these corporate globalizers and the organization they created, the US Council (today’s United States Council for International Business). By shaping governmental policy through their congressional lobbying and close connections to successive presidential administrations, US Council members, including executives from General Electric, Coca Cola, and IBM, among others, consistently fought for ever more market deregulation, culminating in the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995.
Crusading for Globalization is also a book about those who opposed the growing might of multinationals. In the years immediately after World War II, resistance came from business protectionists, before labor and policymakers from the Global South joined the effort in the early 1970s. Schaufelbuehl breaks new ground by offering a panorama of this early anti-globalization movement, and by showing how the leaders of multinationals organized to limit its political influence. She also examines continuities between this early movement and the opposition to globalization that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century from the left and the populist right and discusses how business responded by promoting corporate social responsibility and voluntary guidelines. The first book to shed light on what caused corporate executives to pursue a pro-globalization agenda and to examine their methods for dealing with their opponents, Crusading for Globalization reveals the historical roots of today’s disparities in wealth and income distribution.
On Wednesday, 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an on-campus event near Salt Lake City, Utah.He was there as part of his “American Comeback Tour,” an event series produced by Turning Point USA, the right-wing organization he founded when he was 18 years old. He was a force in the conservative movement who held real political capital. Local officials are calling his killing an act of political violence, and it's the latest in a string of disturbing incidents. For more on who Kirk was, we spoke with reporter Tess Owen, who covers political violence.
And in headlines, former Vice President Kamala Harris calls former President Biden's decision to seek re-election "recklessness," President Trump doubles down on his effort to fire a Federal Reserve official, and suspected Russian drones cross into Poland.
The news to know for Thursday, September 11, 2025!
What’s known so far about the assassination of a conservative activist on a college campus, and a shooting at a suburban high school.
Also: why NATO’s defenses were activated, and what’s expected to happen next in an escalating war.
Plus: we’re talking about some of the strongest hints yet that there may have been life on Mars, who made more money yesterday than any human has ever made in a single day, and what to expect from this year’s New York Fashion Week.
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Just because everything else is terrible out there right now, we treated ourselves to our second consecutive Law’d Awesome Movie. By popular patron demand: it’s My Cousin Vinny! We had a great time talking about this one. Actual New York Italian-American Jenessa Seymour joins to provide dead-ass balls accurate cultural context for one of the greatest Brooklyn couples ever put to film, and Matt shares his perspective as both an actual practicing courtroom lawyer and a guy who is weirdly obsessed with end credits songs that tell you about the movie you just watched.
Oracle stock jumped 40% yesterday… making Larry Ellison is now the world’s richest person.
Ralph Lauren stock is at an all-time high… Because the founder’s son got tech done.
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