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🎧 ‘The Daily’: A 30-Year Plan to Transform the Courts | New York Times

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Republicans have created a pipeline of conservative lawyers to help carry out a sweeping reconfiguration of the federal judiciary.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: When We Almost Stopped Climate Change | New York Times

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The U.S. had an opportunity to solve the climate crisis in the 1980s. What went wrong?

A great history of climate change over the past 30+ years. Interesting to see a lot of the needle move under Republicans while it’s come to a dead stop now.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Why Peter Strzok Wanted to Testify | New York Times

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We look at what happened when the embattled F.B.I. agent appeared before lawmakers to explain his controversial text messages.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: The (Misunderstood) Story of NATO | New York Times

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President Trump called U.S. allies “delinquent” on military spending and attacked Germany as “captive” to Russia. We examine the source of his frustration.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Brett Kavanaugh’s Change of Heart | New York Times

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President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee once made the case for impeaching a president. He now says that was a mistake.

There’s some interesting philosophical question here about whether a sitting president should be “distracted” by lawsuits. I can maybe see the case for knucklehead misdemeanors, but for higher level crimes like collusion with foreign countries or crimes that helped get them into office in the first place? Definitely not. If we have to err on the side of caution, then prosecute, prosecute, prosecute. The president is not above the law, they’re bound to execute on it and this doesn’t get them away from prosecuting themselves.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: Trump’s Supreme Court Finalists | New York Times

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With the president expected to announce his choice to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, we look at the top candidates.

🎧 Episode 57: Domination (MEN, Part 11) | Scene on Radio

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Host John Biewen dips into the world of sports talk radio, where guys talk not just about sports but also about how to be a man in twenty-first-century America. What John finds is more complicated than he expected, with revelations both encouraging and sobering. With co-host Celeste Headlee and experts David Nylund and Terry Real.

The lie of patriarchy is dominion. The lie of patriarchy is hierarchy—that you’re above the world you’re above nature and you’re imposing your will like a doctor on a patient, or a mechanic on a car—you are above the system. This is called hubris.
—Terry Real, psychologist

Running away from your vulnerability is like running away from your rectum.
—Terry Real, psychologist [33:20]

🎧 ‘The Daily’: A New Climate Tipping Point | New York Times

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Last week, a long-awaited report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change showed that the worst consequences of global warming would occur even sooner than previously thought. Here’s the story behind the findings.

🎧 ‘The Daily’: The U.S. as a Place of Refuge | New York Times

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As large groups of Central American migrants approach the U.S. border, the Trump administration is making it more difficult for them to apply for asylum. Is the president undermining the original concept of asylum, or is he restoring it?