Plus: Netflix is looking to boost user engagement. Australian mining company Fortescue is rethinking its new U.S. green-energy projects due to Trump’s policies. Ariana Aspuru hosts.
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The Bulwark Podcast - Tom Nichols: Secrets and Lies
If anyone in America was still thinking that Trump's ties to Epstein were a nothingburger, Trump’s own behavior this week has disabused them of that notion. His panicking and flailing around sure seem exactly like how a guilty man would act. And the sudden firing of Jim Comey's daughter, Maurene—who worked on the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases at the DOJ—isn't helping to tamp down the conspiracy theorizing. Meanwhile, Tulsi and Kash are trying to ferret out the unfaithful, and there are still adults in the room when it comes to the Fed. Plus, our nuclear command and control system was organized around the assumption that we would have a sane president, not somebody who has psychotic fantasies about the Unabomber.
Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
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Philosophers In Space - The Dark Forest and the Wallfacer Project pt.1
More Space Opera! We're back it with the Three Body Problem series, talking about the second book in the series. For part one, we're covering the nature of the wallfacer project and how to approach a threat that's 400 years away. Part two will be all about cosmic sociology and the dark forest theory!
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State of the World from NPR - The Downstream Effects of China’s Rare Earth Mining
China has nearly cornered the market in rare earth minerals, which are a necessary component to much of our technology today. But China sources some of those rare earths and other heavy metals from neighboring Myanmar. And the ramped up in production there is causing downstream environmental concerns in Thailand. We go to Thailand to understand the issue.
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1A - The News Roundup For July 18, 2025
The Senate approves President Trump's rescission package.
Donald Trump has spent much of the week admonishing members of his MAGA base for raising the alert about his administration's failure to release information about Jeffrey Epstein.
At least 20 people were crushed to death at Gaza Humanitarian Fund aid distribution site in Khan Younis.
And Britain lowers its voting age, in the largest expansion of voting rights in the country in decades.
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Donald Trump has spent much of the week admonishing members of his MAGA base for raising the alert about his administration's failure to release information about Jeffrey Epstein.
At least 20 people were crushed to death at Gaza Humanitarian Fund aid distribution site in Khan Younis.
And Britain lowers its voting age, in the largest expansion of voting rights in the country in decades.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Bonus: A Muslim, a Dad, an American
In this political moment where hostility towards immigrants and outsiders is openly espoused, one of our own colleagues has released a book about growing up as a Muslim-American in the post-9/11 era—and raising his own kids now.
Guest: Aymann Ismail, Slate staff writer and author of “Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America.”
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The Book Review - The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
We’re halfway through 2025, and we at the Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are the ones that just won’t let us go. On this week’s episode of the podcast, Gilbert Cruz and Joumana Khatib talk about some of the best books of the year so far.
Here are the books discussed in this week’s episode:
“King of Ashes,” by S.A. Cosby
“The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann
“A Marriage at Sea,” by Sophie Elmhirst
“Careless People,” by Sarah Wynn-Williams
“Isola,” by Allegra Goodman
“The Catch,” by Yrsa Daley-Ward
“Daughters of the Bamboo Grove,” by Barbara Demick
“The Sisters,” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
“The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” by Stephen Graham Jones
“Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin,” by Sue Prideaux
“Raising Hare,” by Chloe Dalton
“To Smithereens,” by Rosalyn Drexler
“The Fate of the Day,” by Rick Atkinson
“Flesh,” by David Szalay
“Things in Nature Merely Grow,” by Yiyun Li
“These Summer Storms,” by Sarah MacLean
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Big Technology Podcast - Grok’s AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Debuts
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Can Zuck and Elon buy their way into the AI race? 2) Will scaling laws turn AI progress over to the biggest tech 3) Grok's new AI avatars - Rudy and Ani 4) Grok's Ani AI bot gets steamy quickly 5) Why AI companies are counting on companion/love bots 6) The backlash to Aqui-Hire-Sitions after Windsurf, Scale, etc. 7) Did Big Tech antitrust backfire? 8) OpenAI announces ChatGPT Agent 9) Is Perplexity's Comet browser a player 10) Kimi K2 wows with coding availability 11) Can AI industry apply lessons from coding elsewhere? 12) One last word from Ani
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