What A Day

What A Day (trailer)

23 Oct 2021

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If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly ma...

Your Booster Questions Answered with Dr. Abdul el-Sayed

22 Oct 2021

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The CDC recommended boosters for certain people who got the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. That means as soon as today, almost 100 millions o...

How Chappelle Fueled A Netflix Walkout

21 Oct 2021

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People gathered in solidarity with trans Netflix employees and their allies who held a walkout, yesterday, in protest of the streaming service’s end...

Striketober Fest

20 Oct 2021

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Thousands of John Deere workers are on strike after the company and the United Automobile Workers union failed to negotiate a new contract. Jonah Furm...

SCOTUS Stands Up For Qualified Immunity

19 Oct 2021

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of police officers in two cases dealing with qualified immunity. Both decisions were unsigned, and none of the justic...

Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Begins

18 Oct 2021

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The leadership of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced a tentative agreement for a new contract between the TV and film ...

What The Virginia Governor's Race Means For Democrats

15 Oct 2021

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The January 6th commission plans to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the committee. Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers are...

The Ol' Ball And Supply Chain

14 Oct 2021

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President Biden addressed the ongoing supply chain problems that are jacking up prices for consumers and slowing economic recovery, and said that the ...

A Judge Illegally Jailed Black Children In Tennessee

13 Oct 2021

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For more than a decade, officials in Rutherford County, Tennessee, were arresting kids en masse and placing them in juvenile detention. In this county...

544 Days In An Iranian Prison with Jason Rezaian

12 Oct 2021

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In July of 2014, Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian and his wife were accused of being spies by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and were arrested....

Votes Against Gun Violence with Shannon Watts

11 Oct 2021

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Guns were involved in three out of every four homicides in 2020, and 2021 is shaping up to be deadly, too. According to the Gun Violence Archive, from...

Women Soccer Players Fight Against Abuse

08 Oct 2021

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Players across the National Women’s Soccer League have recently gone public with stories of verbal, emotional, and sexual abuse and harassment. Foll...

Small Step For Big Student Loans

07 Oct 2021

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The Biden administration announced it will overhaul the student loan forgiveness program for public service employees. It was supposed to forgive cert...

Ernest Johnson And The State Of The Death Penalty

06 Oct 2021

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Ernest Johnson was executed in Missouri, yesterday. Johnson had been on death row for over 25 years after being convicted of the 1994 murder of three ...

Facebook's Status: It's Complicated

05 Oct 2021

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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were offline for six hours yesterday in what’s been called the most sustained and the largest outage for the compan...

Mandela Barnes Wants To Be Wisconsin's Next Senator

04 Oct 2021

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Wisconsin's 34-year-old Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is one of the many Democrats running to beat Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson's...

Did IATSE That Coming

01 Oct 2021

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Congress approved a short-term spending bill to keep the government open until early December, but Democrats are still scrambling to strike deals on s...

Britney Spears Wins In Court

30 Sep 2021

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Britney Spears' father has been suspended as conservator of her estate. Her lawyer requested that a separate hearing be set in 30 to 45 days, and #Fre...

Dancing On The Debt Ceiling

29 Sep 2021

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After Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have funded the government and raised the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congre...

R. Kelly Convicted

28 Sep 2021

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After decades of allegations and investigations, a jury convicted R. Kelly, marking the end of a six-week federal trial. He was found guilty of all n...

The Long And Short Of Long COVID with Dr. Ashish Jha

27 Sep 2021

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As many as one in five people who became ill with COVID-19 have reportedly developed long-term symptoms that last well after they’ve recovered from ...

What Have You Got To Boost? with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

24 Sep 2021

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A CDC advisory board unanimously said that people 65 and older should be allowed to receive a booster shot of the Pfizer-BiONTech COVID vaccine. It al...

Missing Women In America

23 Sep 2021

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In addition to Gabrielle Petito’s tragic murder, we discuss the horrific rates of people of color who’ve gone missing in America. For example in W...

A Historic Strike Ends At Nabisco

22 Sep 2021

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In defiance of Texas’ new abortion law, one doctor in the state claimed he performed an abortion. On Monday, two men, neither of whom are in Texas, ...

Immigration Reform Can't Wait with Denea Joseph

21 Sep 2021

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The Senate’s parliamentarian said that Democrats could not use the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill to create a pathway to citizenship for the mill...

Deteriorating Conditions At Rikers Island

20 Sep 2021

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An FDA panel, last week, unanimously approved a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine for people 65 and older, and anyone at risk of sever...

Police Reform And Accountability In Minneapolis

17 Sep 2021

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Former Minneapolis police officer and convicted murderer Derek Chauvin pleaded not guilty to not one but TWO federal indictments this week in two sepa...

This Is Your Brain On Instagram

16 Sep 2021

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Voters in California appeared to send the message to Governor Gavin Newsom that his coronavirus policies were the right way to go after saving him fro...

India Walton On The Race To Lead Buffalo

15 Sep 2021

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India Walton, the Democratic nominee for mayor of Buffalo, New York, is poised to win this November. Walton would be the first woman to ever lead the ...

Last Call For California's Recall

14 Sep 2021

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The California recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom wraps up today. Newsom campaigned with President Biden, yesterday, and if he is booted from th...

America's Forever Wars With Spencer Ackerman

13 Sep 2021

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This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and beyond the typical yearly commemoration, the FBI released a newly declassified document det...

Anti-Muslim Bias After 9/11 with Shahana Hanif

10 Sep 2021

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Tomorrow marks 20 years since 9/11. The terrorist attack caused a ripple effect that has influenced many parts of American history and culture, but it...

Bring It On Holmes

09 Sep 2021

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Yesterday marked the beginning of the federal criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos. She and her forme...

The Lone Star State Of Emergency

08 Sep 2021

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A law that effectively banned abortions in Texas after the sixth week of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape or incest took effect last Wednesday af...

Fight Or Flight Attendant with Sara Nelson

01 Sep 2021

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The FAA had to investigate more than 600 incidents involving unruly passengers in the first half of 2021, which is already double the number from the ...

America's Last Days In Afghanistan with Rep Barbara Lee

31 Aug 2021

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After 20 years, the U.S. has pulled out the last of its troops from Afghanistan. We spoke with Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee, who was the only member of...

Labor And The Pandemic with Mary Kay Henry

30 Aug 2021

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A U.S. military drone blew up a vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday that was filled with explosives and was believed to be a threat to the intern...

Welcome To The Recall California

26 Aug 2021

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California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a recall election, which could result in getting replaced by a right-wing candidate even if he defeats them...

The Timeline For Evacuating Afghanistan

25 Aug 2021

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The first U.S. troops started leaving Afghanistan, yesterday, as President Biden decided not to extend the timeline for U.S. withdrawal past the origi...

Eyes On The Pfizer

24 Aug 2021

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The FDA granted full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, making it the first vaccine in the country to move beyond the "emergency use authorizat...

Uncovering The Foes Of The Indian Child Welfare Act with Rebecca Nagle

23 Aug 2021

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In the new season of “This Land,” journalist Rebecca Nagle investigates who is attempting to take down a federal law that aims to keep Native Amer...

You're Just Going To Have To Antitrust Us

20 Aug 2021

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On the same day Facebook announced the launch of “Horizon Workrooms,” a virtual reality app for remote work meetings, the Federal Trade Commission...

The Trial of R. Kelly

19 Aug 2021

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CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced that a vaccine booster plan can begin September 20, but only if the FDA determines that a third shot for ...

Hit Me with Your Third Shot

18 Aug 2021

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The Biden Administration is expected to announce as soon as today that boosters should be in order for most fully vaccinated people who got either the...

What Haiti Needs

17 Aug 2021

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After Taliban fighters took control over Afghanistan this weekend, UN Secretary General António Guterres urged all countries to open their doors to A...

The Taliban Takes Kabul

16 Aug 2021

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The Taliban seized Afghanistan with a takeover of its capital Kabul this past weekend, leading the country’s President Ashraf Ghani and U.S. personn...

What's The Census In That?

13 Aug 2021

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The Taliban has taken over twelve provincial cities in Afghanistan, and U.S. intelligence officials estimate the country's capital Kabul could also fa...

Two Bills With One Vote with Representative Pramila Jayapal

12 Aug 2021

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Senators Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema say they might not support a budget bill with a $3.5 trillion price tag, but Democrats in the House won't supp...

New York State Of Resign

11 Aug 2021

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation yesterday, one week after New York Attorney General Leticia James’ office released a damnin...

The Dog Days Of Pandemic Summer with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

10 Aug 2021

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The U.S. is currently seeing over 100,000 new COVID cases each day on average. It’s the highest number since this February, with hospitalizations an...

The Long View Of The Midterms

09 Aug 2021

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Next year's midterm elections will dictate the future of voter rights, reproductive rights, climate change, pandemic recovery, and more. They may seem...

Biden Goes Electric

06 Aug 2021

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President Biden announced his goal to make new vehicles greener in his administration’s first major use of federal regulatory power to cut carbon em...

WHO's Calling The Shots

05 Aug 2021

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The World Health Organization called for a moratorium on booster shots until the end of September, right as a number of countries have started or are ...

Life Cuomos At You Fast

04 Aug 2021

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A five month investigation into the conduct of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo found evidence of sexual harassment towards 11 current and former employ...

An Impending Eviction Crisis

03 Aug 2021

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Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that students must be in classrooms this year and that schools should require everyone to mask up, but loca...

Keeping The DREAM Alive

30 Jul 2021

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New GDP numbers released by the Commerce Department show that the size of the economy has risen above pre-pandemic levels, but an increased spread of ...

On The Ground At Tokyo 2020

29 Jul 2021

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This year's Olympics is like no other, taking place in the midst of a pandemic, and in a city under a state of emergency in response to rising COVID-1...

Recollections Of An Insurrection

28 Jul 2021

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The CDC said yesterday that fully vaccinated people should wear masks in indoor public settings in counties where the transmission rate is "substantia...

50 First Mandates

27 Jul 2021

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Federal public health officials are considering updating mask mandates even for vaccinated Americans as we reach another critical point in the pandemi...

Ask Delta Questions, Get Delta Answers with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein

23 Jul 2021

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The U.S. is at another pivotal point in the pandemic, with loosening restrictions and the rapidly spreading Delta variant leading to a concerning rise...

The Labor Movement Goes PRO

22 Jul 2021

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Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike yesterday across nearly a dozen cities in the U.S. to call for the passage of the PRO Act, which woul...

Burn After Heating

21 Jul 2021

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Wildfires in the western US and parts of Canada, driven by extreme drought conditions and heat waves, are casting hazy skies across the country. We ta...

How It's Joe-ing Six Months In

20 Jul 2021

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Today marks six months since President Biden entered the White House. We talked with Crooked Media’s editor-in-chief and the host of "Rubicon," Bria...

Return Of The Mask

19 Jul 2021

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Los Angeles County reimposed mask mandates this weekend for everyone indoors in a public space because the Delta variant is causing cases and hospital...

Educators On Critical Race Theory

16 Jul 2021

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At its heart, critical race theory is the idea of explaining how systemic racism has persisted in our country’s policies and laws throughout its his...

Back To School with Ed Sec Miguel Cardona

15 Jul 2021

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U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is traveling across the country this week to discuss how schools and community colleges can help students afte...

The Strike At Warrior Met Coal

14 Jul 2021

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Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have been striking for nearly four months in protest of drastic cutbacks to wages and benefits. It’...

Walkout, Texas Ranger

13 Jul 2021

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President Biden’s previous plan to combat crime by tightening the reins on gun sales and empowering the DOJ to target firearm traffickers has got a ...

Biden Vs. Big Business

12 Jul 2021

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President Biden signed an executive order last week aimed at boosting competition between businesses and discouraging monopolies. The order includes 7...

Amount Past Purdue

09 Jul 2021

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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a deal where 15 states agreed to drop their opposition to the company's bankruptcy plan in exchange for concessi...

The Texas Bad Law Massacre

08 Jul 2021

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Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by a team of mercenaries amid claims by opposition groups that he tried to illegally e...

Vaccine Hesitation, Under God with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

07 Jul 2021

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Reflecting upon President Biden’s missed July 4th vaccination goals, we talked to epidemiologist and former Detroit health commissioner Dr. Abdul El...

Voting Rights And SCOTUS Wrongs

02 Jul 2021

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The Supreme Court affirmed two provisions of an Arizona law that restricted voting rights, yesterday. One would void ballots from citizens who voted i...

Cosby For Concern

01 Jul 2021

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Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court set Bill Cosby free on a technicality after he served part of his sentence for three counts of sexual assault. Back in ...

Heatwave Back At It

30 Jun 2021

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Intense heat waves in the Pacific Northwest are causing heavy power demands and rolling blackouts. Unprecedented rainfall in the Midwest has caused fl...

Vaccine Mismatch Made In Heaven

29 Jun 2021

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The Delta variant of coronavirus has been detected in 92 countries, leading to lockdowns and the reintroduction of limitations on border crossing. Add...

A Tragic Building Collapse In Miami

28 Jun 2021

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A 12-story residential building collapsed in Miami last week, resulting in the deaths of at least 9 people, with more than 150 people still missing. A...

No Cops At Pride

25 Jun 2021

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President Biden announced a new $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package that will be primarily funded through heightened IRS efforts to reduce...

SCOTUS Checks In

24 Jun 2021

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The Supreme Court ruled that President Biden had the authority to remove the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who was appointed by the form...

For The People Inaction

23 Jun 2021

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The vote to open a debate about the For The People Act, which would make it easier to vote, strengthen campaign finance rules, and end partisan gerrym...

Ranked Choice State Of Mind

22 Jun 2021

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New York City holds its mayoral primary, today, one of the highest profile elections since the presidential election and a super visible test of ranke...

The Legacy of Juneteenth

18 Jun 2021

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Juneteenth is coming up this Saturday, and Congress just passed legislation to make it a federal holiday. We talk to UCLA Professor Brenda Stevenson a...

Don't Manchin It

17 Jun 2021

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President Biden had his first one-on-one meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Geneva, yesterday. The leaders discussed recent cyberattacks...

ERCOT Off Guard In Texas

16 Jun 2021

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The main electric grid operator in Texas, ERCOT, is dropping the ball on providing services again, this time during extreme heat. It’s asking reside...

Vlad To Meet You, Mr. Biden

15 Jun 2021

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President Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in Geneva for the final stop as part of his overseas trip as President. We spoke ...

Like A G7

14 Jun 2021

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The G7 summit ended on Sunday, with President Joe Biden and several other world leaders pledging to send one billion COVID vaccines to poorer nations ...

Drought Of Control

11 Jun 2021

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On Saturday, four Republican-led states will pull out of the federal government’s pandemic-related unemployment benefits program early. Congress has...

The Shots Sent Around The World

10 Jun 2021

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President Biden is expected to announce a deal today where the U.S. will buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID vaccine and send them to 1...

The Legend Of Delta Variant

09 Jun 2021

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A more infectious coronavirus variant called the Delta variant is becoming the dominant strain in the UK, accounting for more than 60 percent of new i...

The End Of COVID Benefits

08 Jun 2021

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Several social programs launched during the pandemic are set to expire soon, including an eviction moratorium and enhanced unemployment benefits. Fede...

The Long Good Bibi

07 Jun 2021

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The twelve year tenure of right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come to an end as early as this week if the broad coalition of offi...

Stonk If You Love AMC

04 Jun 2021

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President Biden had hoped to have 70 percent of adults in the U.S. vaccinated with at least one shot by Independence Day, and we’re close to hitting...

The Crisis In Ethiopia With Nima Elbagir

03 Jun 2021

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Yesterday, the U.S., Canada, and a number of European countries called for a ceasefire in Ethiopia, where government forces have targeted an ethnic gr...

Variants Are All Greek Letters To Me

02 Jun 2021

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As most of the U.S. prepares to reopen by the end of this month, a World Health Organization official warned, “It would be a monumental error for an...

Revisiting Our Favorite Conversations on Coronavirus

01 Jun 2021

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The past year and more were filled with extreme ups and extreme downs, and as we reflect on that time, we’re looking back on some conversations that...

Are You Infrastructure Or Out?

28 May 2021

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Congressional Republicans have countered President Biden’s nearly $2 trillion infrastructure proposal with their own plan and a lower price tag: $92...

History's Not Set In Stone Mountain Park

27 May 2021

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Amazon plans to buy movie studio MGM for $8.45 billion, which would give the tech company a huge library of movies, shows, and franchises including th...

Florida's Right To Post Shall Not Be Infringed

26 May 2021

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Moderna said that its vaccine trial for 12-17 year olds resulted in zero cases of symptomatic COVID. Also, we discuss so-called breakthrough cases, wh...

Activism After George Floyd's Murder

25 May 2021

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Today is the 1-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. His friends, family, and the community of Minneapolis will memorialize him with a gathe...

The Ceasefire In Israel And Palestine

24 May 2021

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The state of the pandemic in the US is looking brighter with infection rates dropping to where they were in June of last year, and hospitalization rat...