🎧 The Daily: Promise and Peril of the Green New Deal | New York Times

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The controversial proposal to combat global warming and economic inequality is transforming the political calculus around climate change.

Hopefully a major shift in the game theory will draw us at least to the left of center on this issue so we can get back to potentially reversing the effects of climate change. The sad part is that we likely will need something as drastic as this to make the requisite dent…

🎧 The Daily: Silicon Valley’s Military Dilemma | New York Times

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Should Big Tech partner with the Pentagon? We examine a cautionary tale.

Some great history and questions about ethics here.

I’m surprised that for it’s share of profits that Down didn’t spin off the napalm division to some defense contractor?

Of course some tech companies are already weaponizing their own products against people. What about those ethical issues.

🎧 The Daily: Part 1: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (the Mueller Report) | New York Times

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The special counsel is said to be preparing to deliver a report on the results of the Russia investigation. What happens next?

🎧 The Daily: Why the North Korea Deal Fell Apart (Again) | New York Times

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Despite the unlikely courtship between the leaders of the two countries, neither the United States nor North Korea wants to be the first to compromise.

🎧 The Daily: A Fraudulent Election in North Carolina | New York Times

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The investigation into a congressional seat narrowly won by a Republican reveals a detailed playbook for how election fraud can happen in the United States.

🎧 The Daily: What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong About Race | New York Times

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Wesley Morris joins us to talk about “Green Book,” the latest Oscar winner to focus on a white character’s moral journey in an interracial friendship.

I love Wesley Morris’s analysis here. Racial reconciliation fantasy is a great name for a rampant problem we’ve got in America. While it’s nice to try to sweep the problem under the rug, we really need to bring it out front and center and have a more honest discussion about it.

This may be one of the best podcast episodes I’ve heard in two months. I highly recommend it.

🎧 The Daily: Why Controlling 5G Could Mean Controlling the World | New York Times

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In the race to dominate the next generation of cellular networks, both the United States and China know there’s much more at stake than ultrafast internet.

Some great thought and analysis here about the coming issues with world wide communication networks.

🎧 The Daily: How New York Lost Amazon | New York Times

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Lawmakers who opposed the company’s deal are calling its collapse a political victory, but some say this messaging may come back to haunt them.

🎧 The Daily: What Happened to Lindsey Graham? | New York Times

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The South Carolina Republican was once a vehement Trump critic. Now, he’s one of the president’s most ardent supporters.

🎧 The Daily: The Democrats and Israel | New York Times

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The Democratic Party has a long history of staunchly supporting Israel, but some new lawmakers are raising questions about the future of this stance.

🎧 The Daily: Dispatches From the Border, Part 2 | New York Times

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A visit to one of the deadliest places in the United States for migrants shows that even for those who’ve made it across the border, a treacherous journey often awaits.

I’m really appreciating this series and how they’re bringing some actually reporting and storytelling about what is actually happening at the border. It’s far better than the simple pontificating we’re hearing from politicians who seem to have some broad strokes, but never quite seem to have the whole picture.

🎧 The Daily: The Story of Roger Stone and WikiLeaks | New York Times

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The special counsel’s indictment of the longtime Trump adviser establishes a direct connection between WikiLeaks and the president’s campaign.

I’m curious if there are charges the special prosecutor is holding back on to get people to flip for one final round that will come back and knock down the entire house of cards?

🎧 The Daily: One Country, Two Presidents: The Crisis in Venezuela | New York Times

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As the once-prosperous nation faces economic and political collapse, the struggle over its leadership may hinge on the military.

The big question seems to be: What will the military do and which way will the country swing in what is sure to be some serious turmoil for the coming months and years.

🎧 The Daily: ISIS Has Lost Its Land. What About Its Power? | New York Times

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The last time the extremist group was declared defeated, it returned even stronger than before.

This sounds like Trump is preemptively declaring victory when it’s patently not the case and then we’ll end up being right back in the same situation one or more years down the road.

🎧 The Daily: The Confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial | New York Times

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How an encounter between high school students and a Native American man became an explosive political moment.