Simon Johnson, Nobel-winning economist, joined Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino to explain his current thinking about AI and inequality. He says the tech could bring productivity gains, but they might not benefit everyone.
The Intelligence from The Economist - Luxe run out? LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, to use its proper name, is led by Bernard Arnault, who is credited with creating today’s luxury industry. Can he turn the firm around after its missteps? Why do fluffy K-dramas tempt North Koreans to brave the firing squad? It is not the political messages. And our Big Mac index shows trade-tantrum effects on the dollar.
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Start Here - What Went Wrong in the DC Air Crash
An NTSB hearing reveals troubling findings about the last moments before a Blackhawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet in Washington, D.C. Officials evaluate evacuation procedures after a tsunami scare. And Congress considers a bill that would bar lawmakers from trading stocks.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 7.31.25
Alabama
- Sen. Tuberville explains how farmers and Seniors benefit most from OBBB
- Covenant Rescue Group founder horrified at Bibb county child sex abuse case
- State lawmaker wants to hold DHR accountable for hot car death of boy
- BLM leader targeting Homewood has a record with FBI in state of Florida
- Coosa Riverkeepers file lawsuit against Alabama Power re: Gadsden coal ash
- Mobile judge to consider request by accused drug kingpin to forego an attorney at his trial
National
- US Senate passes bill that prohibits stock trading by members of Congress
- Trump revisits his dislike of Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates
- Treasury Secretary Bessent says recent trade deals put China on their heels
- FBI director found "burn bags" full of docs related to Russia/Trump hoax
- NYT corrects "starving Gaza boy" article with note about his cerebral palsy
The Daily Signal - Q2 GDP Growth Surges, Powell Fights to Keep Interest Rates High, Pelosi Yells at Tapper | July 31, 2025
Today on the Top News in 10, we cover:
- Quarter 2 GDP has the Trump team exultant and Senator Chuck Schumer furious.
- Fed. Chairman Jerome Powell continues to keep interest rates high despite opposition from his own governors.
- Nancy Pelosi loses it over insider trading questions.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Canned Food
For centuries, food preservation was a significant challenge for humanity.
Even if you were successful in hunting or gathering food, if you could not preserve it, it would be difficult to keep enough for survival.
One of the most important advancements in human history was the development of canning, allowing for food to be preserved for significantly longer periods of time.
Sometimes, very long periods of time.
Find out about the history of canning and its impact on humanity on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Opening Arguments - Alan Dershowitz tries to pull a literal “nothing to see here” on Epstein
VR1 - Welcome to Vapid Response Wednesday! Rather than explaining law in the news as we have for years on Rapid Response Friday, Thomas, Lydia, and Matt are going on the offensive in this live video series to respond and react to the stupidest takes that we can find--and we’ve got just the guy for our first pick! We begin with former Jeffrey Epstein defense attorney Alan Dershowitz’s recent piece in the Wall Street Journal in which he literally claims that “there is nothing more to see here” on the Epstein case while filling in the facts of what we know from reliable reporting and court records. What is Dersh not telling us here about his own involvement with Epstein, the unbelievably corrupt federal non-prosecution agreement which he secured for his client in 2007, and all of the other many reasons that he might not be a trustworthy source on this question? We then take on one of Matt’s all-time favorites: a well-known 1996 video presentation from far-right immigration restrictionist organization NumbersUSA in which founder Roy Beck takes the stage to set the Guinness world record for Biggest Strawman Made Entirely Out of Gumballs.
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“The Inside Scoop on Jeffrey Epstein,” Alan Dershowitz, The Wall Street Journal (7/15/2025)
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“Alan Dershowitz: Devil’s Advocate,” Connie Bruck, The New Yorker (7/29/2019)
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“Immigration, World Poverty, and Gumballs,” NumbersUSA (originally distributed in 1996, uploaded to YouTube in 2010)
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NBN Book of the Day - On Bullshit in AI
Today we’re continuing our series on Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. I have the privilege to speak with Arvind Narayanan co-author of the book AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What it Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference (Princeton University Press, 2024). Arvind is the perfect guest to explore the subject of bullshit in AI as AI Snake Oil takes on the ridiculous hype ascribed to the promise of AI. AI chatbots often hallucinate and many of the promoters of AI engage in the art of bullshit when selling people on wild and crazy AI applications.
Arvind Narayanan is professor of computer science at Princeton University and director of its Center for Information Technology Policy.
Caleb Zakarin is editor of the New Books Network.
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New Books in Native American Studies - Jennifer Bess, “Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O’odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin” (U Colorado Press, 2021)
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin (UP of Colorado, 2021) is not a simple story of environmental decline and colonial imposion. In this brilliantly interdisciplinary book, Goucher College peace studies professor Jennifer Bess instead weaves a complicated narrative of change, stability, autonomy, and adaptation, focusing on Indigenous ways of understanding the land and its beings, and how the people who were created in the desert southwest have always shown resilience by adapting to changes. Even in the face fo changes including Spanish colonization, American industrialized agriculture, and today, climate change, the Akimel O'odham have persevered through their intimate knowledge of the Gila River Basin, and their understanding of how to ensure that the desert remains in bloom.
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What A Day - Loyalty Over Competence At Trump’s Justice Department
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Emil Bove as a federal appeals court judge, a lifetime appointment to a perch one rung below the U.S. Supreme Court. Bove, who served as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, ascended to the top ranks of the Justice Department when Trump returned to office in January. Ahead of his Senate confirmation, he became the subject of multiple whistleblower complaints, with some alleging Bove told DOJ subordinates they may need to ignore court orders to enact Trump’s agenda (Bove denies the allegations). Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins us to talk about what Bove’s confirmation signals to the rank and file at the DOJ. He also weighs in on what’s happening at his former agency right now and — maybe more importantly — what’s not happening.
And in headlines: President Donald Trump announced a new 25 percent tariff on India ahead of his Aug. 1 deals deadline, former Vice President President Kamala Harris announced she won’t run for governor of California next year, and the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged for a fifth time this year.
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