Plus: China’s BYD outsells Tesla in Europe again. And Taco Bell rethinks the use of voice AI at its drive-throughs. Julie Chang hosts.
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Texas left the United States in 1861 and joined the Confederacy. But on the local level, the vote to leave the Union was more complicated.
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Serving on a school board is not a glamorous position, but it’s an important one that plays a big role in Native American students’ success. Elected members of school boards make decisions ranging annual budgets to what’s allowed in classroom lessons. They are also responsible for representing the community’s values and interests. As such, individual board members are lightning rods for public criticism. We’ll get a look at what school board members encounter on a daily basis and hear about a program designed to support Native school board participation.
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Stacey Woolley (Choctaw), member on Tulsa Public Schools Board of Education
Regina Yazzie (White Mountain Apache), member for the Theodore Roosevelt School Governing Board
Michele Justice (Diné), owner of Personnel Security Consultants
Dr. Chris Bonn, owner of Bonfire Leadership Solutions
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President Donald Trump has been relentlessly trying to increase control over the Federal Reserve, most recently with his attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook. The Fed controls the Federal Funds Rate, which is currently at around 4.5%; the president wants it down to 1%. So, what if that happened? We'll outline the ripple effects. Also: Nvidia didn't meet Wall Street’s lofty expectations, and Cracker Barrel’s logo saga shows us the power of upset consumers.
"Golden shares” at home, grand bargains abroad. In this episode, Cato scholars weigh Trump’s push for equity stakes in U.S. firms under the CHIPS Act and his effort to strike a quick deal with Putin on Ukraine. What does state capitalism at home mean for American liberty—and can deal-making diplomacy abroad actually end the U.S. entanglement in Ukraine?
Featuring Ryan Bourne, Gene Healy, Norbert Michel, and Justin Logan
Scott Lincicome, “The government’s Intel stake is antithetical to American greatness”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/24/trump-intel-government-marketplace/
Justin (and Dan Caldwell) on security guarantees: https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/26/if-ukraine-wants-security-guarantees-it-should-get-them-from-europe/
Ryan Bourne, “Trump’s cronyism is quietly unravelling American capitalism,”
Ryan Bourne, Industrial Policy was the Gateway Drug to Cronyism
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Minneapolis mourns the loss of two children shot dead during a Catholic school church service. The CDC's new director is fired. Here comes the Labor Day weekend. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.
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From the BBC World Service: Thousands of workers are rallying in Jakarta and 38 other Indonesian provinces to demand higher wages and lower taxes. Plus, BBC data shows cheap goods shipped from China to the United Kingdom more than doubled last year to over $4 billion. And, a Kenyan tech company is encouraging the use of bitcoin in one of Africa’s largest slums in hopes of promoting financial inclusion and boosting the area's economy.
President Donald Trump called out countries trying to regulate U.S. tech companies earlier this week, warning they could face new tariffs. The White House has struck a provisional trade deal with the European Union, but tensions remain over the bloc's sweeping tech laws, like the Digital Services Act, which requires platforms to moderate illegal content and disinformation.
Plus: President Trump fires a member of the railroad regulator that’s evaluating a merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. And, BYD outsells Tesla in Europe. Azhar Sukri hosts.
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