Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contributing editor, Bethany McLean and world renowned economics professor Luigi Zingales, we explain how capitalism can go wrong, and what we can do to fix it. Cover photo attributions: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/research/stigler/about/capitalisnt
We tell the stories behind the pioneering research and pivotal breakthroughs reshaping our world. Change how you see the world. Produced out of The University of Chicago. Adweek's "Best Branded Podcast" of 2020.
The biggest ideas in physics, broken down. Join theoretical physicist Dan Hooper and PhD student Shalma Wegsman as they answer your questions about dark matter, black holes, quantum mechanics, and more. Part of The University of Chicago Podcast Network.
With all the noise created by a 24/7 news cycle, it can be hard to really grasp what's going on in politics today. We provide a fresh perspective on the biggest political stories not through opinion and anecdotes, but rigorous scholarship, massive data sets and a deep knowledge of theory. Understand the political science beyond the headlines with Harris School of Public Policy Professors William Howell, Anthony Fowler and Wioletta Dziuda. Our show is part of the University of Chicago Podcast ...
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Off The Charts Energy Podcast
Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago & UChicago Podcast Network
At the Energy Policy Institute, we love our charts. That’s why we’re bringing you analysis of today’s top trends and policies grounded in the latest evidence off the charts.
Rights matter, but conversations about rights can be polarizing, confusing and frustrating. Lawyers and law professors Claudia Flores and Tom Ginsburg have traveled the world getting into the weeds of global human rights debates. On Entitled, they use that expertise to explore the stories and thorny questions around why rights matter and what’s the matter with rights. A production of the University of Chicago Law School and the award winning University of Chicago Podcast Network.
Host Robert Reed and Chicago Basketball legend Marcus Liberty give you the best stories, news and legendary interviews surrounding Chicago Basketball.
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Sponsored by United Nanny, a Chicago nanny agency dedicated to Uniting Families with Exceptional Care; No Exception. Learn more at www.unitednanny.org Nanny ABCs Next Step is a series of interviews and monologues featuring the leaders of the at home childcare industry. Nanny ABCs Next Step is created to elevate agencies, caregivers, and the families they serve. Nanny ABCs Next Step is here to provide you with the childcare industry’ best practices, to be clear, concise, and immediately appli ...
UC3P is a student-run podcast network based at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Our main page hosts current events, politics, research, debates, and more from across the University of Chicago.
Paul Hodes is a former New Hampshire Congressman and National Co-Chair of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. Matt Robison is a former senior congressional staffer and campaign manager. They host "Beyond Politics," a show that goes beyond the usual week-to-week news and political chatter, and examines the deeper issues driving American politics through interviews with senior insiders from government, universities, and political campaigns.
Join DePaul University sports journalism student Adeyemi Sosina, as he discusses the latest in pop-culture and sports. Occasionally, he brings guest to chill and chat about their life and sports.
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The Think Outside the Beltway podcast


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The Think Outside the Beltway podcast
Stephan Cox, Chad Levinson, David Gershwin
Each week, your hosts--public radio veteran Stephan Cox, political science PhD candidate Chad Levinson, and Democratic strategist David Gershwin--unpack the week in politics and attempt to drill down through the chatter and into something that quite possibly resembles the truth. Born during the 16-month long national nightmare that is the 2016 Presidential election, the show continues to evolve, examining greater and deeper themes and threads across the political and cultural landscape. Step ...
Ramona Rice was a very casual fan of football, basketball, and baseball growing up. Her father watched sports, and her hometown of Hampton Roads is known for its high school football - but she didn't fall in love with sports until she fell in love with a guy, James, who loved to watch sports - any sport. When they became engaged Ramona decided to learn more about his favorite sport, football, and checked out Football For Dummies by Howie Long. She also started to listen to sports radio, watc ...
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Beyond Politics


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Bonus pod: Unpacking the Senator Whitehouse Dark Money Interview
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After we finished recording a really terrific, eye-opening episode with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on how dark money drives Republican candidates and conservative judges to the hard right on issues like guns and abortion, former Congressman Paul Hodes and Matt Robison had a short follow up conversation to digest what we had just heard, why it matte…
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: The Dark Money Network Behind the Supreme Court Takeover
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The right wing takeover of the Supreme Court by hand-picked ideologues -- who are now on the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade -- was a carefully orchestrated effort funded by a flood of "dark money." In just the last 8 years, investigators have identified at least $580 million of those hidden funds, channeled through a tangled network of right wing …
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Episode 56: Kellie Geres Nanny of the Universe
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With over 33 years in private service, Kellie Geres is an industry veteran. If you have not heard of Kellie, you probably aren’t in the nanny industry. Today we are peeling back to discover the knowledge only a few nannies have and get to know the ins and outs of the nanny industry from Geres' eagle eye view. Kellie was named the 1997 International…
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From Green Burials To DIY Funerals, How Death In America Is Changing With Shannon Lee Dawdy
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What does our relationship with the dead tell us about the living? Anthropologists learn about ancient cultures by studying their burial sites, but could we do the same with contemporary America? Those are the questions that University of Chicago anthropologist and historian Shannon Lee Dawdy set out to answer in her new book, American Afterlives: …
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The Intangible Economy with Jonathan Haskel + Roe v Wade & Corporate America
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What do lighthouses, the wheelie suitcase, Harry Potter, and Wikipedia have in common? They showcase the progressive evolution towards investment in the "intangible economy": one prioritizing knowledge, relationships, design, reputation, and other internal organization over physical assets.Jonathan Haskel is Professor of Economics at Imperial Colle…
One of the biggest questions surrounding the conflict in Ukraine is to what extent the shadow of nuclear war affects the degree of involvement by Western countries. Much of the literature in nuclear deterrence theory assumes the incentives of mutually assured destruction are strong enough to avoid a nuclear war, and hence the existence of nuclear c…
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Beyond Politics


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The Real Agenda of the Religious Right, and Why It Matters So Much Today
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The draft opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling has led to a torrent of analysis about how this moment culminates a five decade-long quest for the religious and ideological right wing in this country to accomplish their most cherished goal. But that history is wrong. Dr. Randall Balmer of Dartmouth College has written extensiv…
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13 - Does Quantum Mechanics Imply a Multiverse? (Rebroadcast)
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Today we explore different interpretations of quantum mechanics, from Copenhagen to the many-worlds hypothesis, in an attempt to uncover what quantum reality really is. This episode is a rebroadcast of one of our early favorites.By Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman
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Beyond Politics


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Why Alito's Roe Argument Makes No Sense, and Why It Could Wipe Out a Wide Range of Rights
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Even though it was widely anticipated, the release of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade sent a jolt through America. But the opinion itself is a maze of choppy logic, invented legal tests, and cherry picked precedents - an exercise in stretching an argument to reach a preordained conclusion. To understand what is going o…
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Has Carbon Pricing’s Moment Arrived?
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Energy demand continues to rise amidst impacts from geopolitical events. Yet, the United States remains committed to scaling up action at home and abroad to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Faced with energy security and climate concerns, could now be the time for a price on carbon?Carbon pricing has received considerable bipartisan pushback, wi…
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The Bears Roar, Netflix Tumbles, and the Aristocrats Deliver
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What is up with the market falling off a cliff? The NASDAQ is off to its worst start of any year this century. Netflix is way down. Tesla shareholders are nervous about Elon's Twitter adventure. And yet the"aristocrats" of American industry keep delivering. Chris Hill of Motley Fool Money explains.
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NYT's Jason Zengerle on the Rise of the Tucker Carlson Politician
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Why does it seem like so many Republicans are trying to be Tucker Carlson these days? Because consciously or not, they are. Imitating Carlson's playbook of explosive provocation has become the go-to move for aspiring politicians on the right. Jason Zengerle, the outstanding New York Times Magazine Writer at Large and author of the recent analysis T…
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Orrin Hatch's Complicated Legacy for America
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When I read the news that longtime US senator Orrin Hatch at passed away at the age of 88, I thought of only one person: Eric Loomis (@ErikLoomis) Associate Professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. Eric just wrote a deep dive on The Editorial Board on Hatch's complicated legacy, one that was at times surprising for someone with a rep…
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Big Brains


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Why We Need To Invest In Parents During A Child's Earliest Years, With Dana Suskind
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The United States is an outlier when it comes to parents. Compared to similar countries, the U.S. has the largest happiness gap between the 63 million parents and the child-free. This statistic is not shocking when you consider how other societies support parents with things like paid parental leave and high-quality child care.In her new book, Pare…
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Is Common Good Capitalism The Answer? With Oren Cass + Elon Musk Buys Twitter
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The basic premise of capitalism has always been that more people generating more profits will be better for everybody. Oren Cass wants to challenge that premise by prioritizing values over value and over market power.Oren was formerly an Economic Advisor to the Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign, now executive director of the nonprofit American Comp…
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What Happens When Fox News Viewers Watch CNN Instead?
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When it comes to cable news, Fox and CNN have pretty partisan viewers. So, what would happen if Fox viewers tuned into CNN for a month? Would they suddenly adopt different views more aligned with CNN? UC Berkeley political scientist David Broockman and his colleagues wanted to find out. When they paid Fox News viewers to watch CNN, they found that …
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The "Libs of TikTok" Story Perfectly Captures the Current "Crapnado" of Politics
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Matt Robison joins AJ Kierstead on WKXL's The New England Take to break down why the Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post Vs. "Libs of Tiktok" story became such a fact-free partisan spin cycle of stupid. Also, Matt defends his take on President Biden's first year grade (yep, the grade was A+) in light of continuing revelations about the end of the Trump…
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Rick Hasen - Election Law Expert - On How "Cheap Speech" is Poisoning America
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Today, in America, the system is blinking red. Experts are sounding increasingly dire alarms that our politics have become so distorted by anger, partisanship, lies, manipulation, and disinformation – not to mention deliberate steps to subvert American elections – that American democracy itself is in real peril. There may be no more widely respecte…
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47 - Boltzmann Brains: Could Reality Be An Illusion?
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A whirlwind of questions brings us to an odd conclusion: could reality be an illusion created by a quantum fluctuation of a brain?
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Episode 55: The Nanny Relief Fund ft. Rachael Lubin
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Early on in her career, Rachael Lubin got involved in the nanny community on a national scale. During her first year as a nanny she attended Nannypalooza, the International Nanny Association conference, iNNTD, and other local nanny events. These networking opportunities allowed Lubin to scale her career quickly. In late March of 2020, Rachael L. Lu…
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What Amazon's Been Doing While We Were All Focused on Elon Musk
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Chris Hill of Motley Fool Money, the #1 stock investing radio show in America, joins to look at the biggest business and financial stories including Elon Musk vs. Twitter, the clever things Amazon is doing to position itself, the end of mask mandates on airlines, and the big storylines coming out of earnings season.…
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Donald McNeil, former lead NYT Covid Reporter, On Our Troubling Pandemic Future
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Recently, it's been clear that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s just not clear exactly what this phase is, or where we’re going from here. Are we in even worse shape than we thought on Covid, or for the next pandemic that is inevitably coming? Whenever we wonder about questions like this, we think of Donald G. McNeil, Jr. Th…
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Elizabeth Warren Vs. Biden's Pollster: Who's Got the Right Idea?
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Also, even more texts to Mark Meadows come out...how many people were texting this guy about the insurrection?!? The end of mask mandates, but forever? And why are Republicans holding off on Senator Maggie Hassan?
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Globe Columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr: Insurrection, CROWNs, and the Shadow Docket
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With so much legal news, we're thrilled to finally bring you one of the really bright minds in legal and political commentary, Kimberly Atkins Stohr. She's a senior opinion writer and columnist for the Boston Globe, an MSNBC contributor, and co-host of the podcast #SistersInLaw (with our previous guest Joyce Vance). We tackle the true impact of Ken…
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Episode 54: Goal Digger; 3 intentions to bring to your next interview to find your perfect fit.
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Whether you are an agency owner on the hunt for amazing candidates. Or you are a family looking for their next perfect fit nanny. Or, even if you are that perfect fit nanny looking for your next perfect fit, today’s episode is for you. We are zooming way way way out what an interview and breaking it down into 3 intentions to ensure you get that per…
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A Break From the News: The Mind-Blowing Stuff Happening at the Edge of Universe
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It's time for one of the most fun, refreshing, and mind-bending recurring segments on this show, where Matt talks with the SKYGUY, John S. Gianforte, an astronomer and Director of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Observatory. In this episode, we cover the furthest (and oldest) galaxy ever seen which is right at the very edge of the observable …
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Big Brains


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The Troubling Rise Of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs, With Christopher Murray
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For nearly a decade, public health experts have been warning that bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics. In 2014, the World Health Organization even said the post-antibiotic era is near. Despite these warnings, the problem has only worsened: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs like MRSA are rising—and faster than expected. University of Washing…
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Ukraine: The Price of Democracy with Tymofiy Mylovanov
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, we've discussed its many aspects but we haven't talked to anyone actually in or from the country. On this episode, we do both. Ukrainian economist Tymofiy Mylovanov is the president of the Kyiv School of Economics, advisor to the Zelensky administration, and former Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development, T…
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Does Russian Propaganda Influence Ukrainians?
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By now, we've heard a lot about how state-owned Russian television is distorting the truth about the war in Ukraine. But Russian TV doesn't just reach Russian viewers. Some Ukrainians can receive its analog television signals. To understand how this propaganda influences Ukrainians, we turned to New York University political scientist Arturas Rozen…
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Bernie's former Chief of Staff on Voting, BBB, and whether Dem "dysfunction" is real
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Michaeleen Crowell was Chief of Staff to US Senator Bernard Sanders, Legislative Director for civil rights icon John Lewis (GA-5) for 8 years and is now Principal at S-3 Group, a bipartisan consulting and communications firm in DC. We dive in to whether Dems are getting a lot more done than people realize, what the family of Martin Luther King want…
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Episode 53: (Classic) Believe in Your Sauce with Nanny Sharz
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Shada Lambert, of Nanny Sharz, stopped by the Nanny ABCs Next Step Podcast to help caregivers learn to "believe in your sauce." Shada Lambert is a Childcare Expert, International Nanny and Speaker, Parent Coach, Sleep Consultant, Potty Training Specialist, Nanny Mentor, and Entrepreneur with over 16+ years of childcare experience. Read the Blog GET…
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The First Presidential Primary Should Be in...DC???
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Yes! This idea seemed a little...out there...when I saw the headline for an article on The Editorial Board. Then I read it, and I was halfway convinced. So I had writer Noah Berlatsky on the show today to explain, and he got me fully convinced. Listen to the episode, and let me know what you think at @MattLRobison on Twitter.…
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The Ginni Thomas Story Goes A Lot Deeper Than We Thought
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In the past two weeks, we've learned a lot more about the role of Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, behind the scenes in the runup to the January 6 insurrection. Matt joins West Virginia broadcasting legend Howard Monroe to talk about just how deep this goes. Also, Howard and Matt discuss a congressional ethics scandal an…
Neil Levesque oversees the Saint Anselm College Survey Center poll, one of the most respected polls in any swing state in the country. Their newest survey shows an uptick in voter mood over the past two months, creating some hopeful signs for Democratic incumbents facing re-election, including in the most-watched Senate race in the country. So what…
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Episode 52: (Classic) 5 Ways of Protecting Yourself Against Regret
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This week I am sharing the wisdom of an article I read on avoiding regret. This is a repost of episode 32 and I heard how meaning full this episode was to so many people at the most recent INA conference. Pleas enjoy. Visit www.nannyabcs.com/blog to learn all your action steps. Learn more from the article that spurred this topic. I'm a Psychologist…
Here on Earth, we are constantly being showered by particles from outer space called cosmic rays. What do we know about where these particles really come from?
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Are Dems Aiming At the Wrong Targets? With Jason Sattler (Twitter's @LOLGOP)
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According to Jason Sattler, better known to his army of Twitter followers as @LOLGOP and a former columnist and member of the USA TODAY Board of Contributors, "Marjorie Taylor Greene could marry Hunter Biden, put her pronouns on her Twitter bio and give herself a real-time abortion on Tucker Carlson’s desk while wearing a rainbow-colored N95 mask –…
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Is Scientific Progress Slowing? with James Evans
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There are far more scientists in today’s world, and they’re publishing research papers at a much faster pace. However, all of this growth hasn’t translated to more scientific progress. As University of Chicago Professor James Evans argues, scientists are overloaded by the flood of research papers they have to read, which is causing them to cite the…
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Ukraine: Sanctioning the Oligarchs' Enablers With Bill Browder
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As the devastation in Ukraine increases, so do the calls to end the war. Among those championing tougher actions is Bill Browder—one of Putin’s most vocal critics—and the man behind the Magnitsky Act, which authorizes the U.S. government to sanction human rights offenders. Browder has been advocating for expanding the list of sanctioned pro-Kremlin…
We know that lobbyists have the power to influence politics. But not all lobbyists are working on behalf of corporate interest groups. Sometimes, city officials actually hire lobbyists to represent the interests of their constituents in the state legislature. Why would cities do this? This is what New York University political science professor Jul…
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What CODA means for the future of movies, and what the heck is Uber doing?
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Matt catches up with Chris Hill, host of Motley Fool Money, and what's going on in business: an unsettled market that might be finding its footing, what the CODA Oscar win means for the big streamers, the future of Uber, and the wild story of what Fred Smith did for the shipping business.
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WaPo Reporter and Former Hostage Jason Rezaian on Bringing Americans Home
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In the summer of 2014, Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife were arrested and held as hostages in order for the Iranian government to be able to exert leverage in its negotiations with the US. Ultimately imprisoned for 544 days, 100 longer than the US hostages seized in 1979, Jason has since continued his reporting and an…