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Five years after their initial discussion, we are back with Freddie DeBoer—author of The Cult of Smart and the upcoming book All in Your Head—to revisit the state of American education.In this episode, we move beyond the usual pundits' talking points to address the material and institutional realities facing schools today. From the uniform decline in literacy scores globally to the complex economics of "cost disease" in special education, we explore why most modern reform efforts are failing to meet the actual challenges of the system.Key Discussion Points:The Literacy Crisis: Why reading scores are declining internationally and why standard "reforms" often prove delusional.The Myth of Educational Intervention: Challenging the belief that schools can fully overcome socioeconomic disparities and why academic aptitude remains remarkably static over a lifetime.The Cost Disease & Bureaucracy: How the expansion of administrative apparatuses, driven by compliance mandates (like the ADA) and state oversight, has bloated costs without improving outcomes.The Special Education Dilemma: Addressing the ballooning cost of special education and the perverse incentives created by a system that requires a "diagnosis" for students to receive basic resources.The Future of the "College for All" Model: Why the assumption that every student must pursue higher education is breaking down in an economy that no longer offers a reliable industrial path for those who don't.Send us Fan Mail Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian, Drea, Free Beer 

Lara Prendergast is joined by The Spectator's political editor Tim Shipman, columnist and journalist Melanie McDonagh, and the Daily Mail's parliamentary sketchwriter Quentin Letts.This week: has Reform UK lost its magic? Ahead of the party's conference, Tim reveals its plans for the first 100 days of a Reform government – and asks whether Nigel Farage can persuade voters that his party is ready to govern after a turbulent summer.Also: what is happening in Middlesbrough? The panel discuss rising gang violence, the decline of visible policing and a generation of young men who appear increasingly indifferent to the law. Is social breakdown to blame – or has Britain simply lost its respect for authority?Plus: what can Britain learn from Norway's royals? Produced by Henry Lloyd and Oscar Edmondson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, Andy Burnham faced his first PMQs, and Nigel Farage has told Chris the UK is a "complainants' society" after questions about Reform's funding. Adam and Chris unpack Chris' first interview with Nigel Farage after he returned to parliament as the re-elected MP for Clacton on Tuesday. They discuss his response to continuing questions about the £5m he received from a crypto billionaire before becoming an MP, plus whether Andy Burnham's premiership is a threat to Reform. Farage has said the £5m was a personal gift and did not therefore require registration under the rules.And Andy Burnham has faced Kemi Badenoch in his debut appearance at PMQs. Does the new Prime Minister seem like a breath of fresh air, or is it already a return to politics as usual?You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscordGet in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480.New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Shiler Mahmoudi and Nik Sindle. The social producer was Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Harry, Connor and Firas discuss Restore's new Remigration philosophy, Reform's based turn, and whether the ‘multicultural working class' exists (it doesn't).

Chris Philp joins James Heale to discuss what the Conservatives got wrong on immigration – and how they plan to fix it. The shadow Home Secretary argues that mass immigration risks making Britain ‘ungovernable', says the last Tory government made a ‘catastrophic mistake' after 2020 and explains why he thinks Reform still lacks a credible plan for government.He also lifts the lid on his time inside the Home Office, from civil service resistance to the Rwanda scheme to the legal constraints he believes stop ministers controlling the borders.Produced Oscar Edmondson and Abigail Brierley.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts.Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hugh discusses Abdul El-Sayed, Medicare reform, the Iran conflict, and talks with Rep. Steve Womack, Jonathan Williams, Sarah Bedford, John Podhoretz, Mary Katharine Ham, Jim Talent, and Rep. Pat Harrigan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We tend to think of the 1990s when it comes to Protestantism in Russia. It was then that evangelicals descended on Russia to shine Jesus' light into the post-Soviet void. Yet, the Soviet Union, despite its best efforts, was a multiconfessional state. And though officially atheist, religious belief persisted, including among the Union's small pockets of Protestants. Like with other faiths, the state's relations with Protestants vacillated between repression, accommodation, and control. As Miriam Dobson says in her new book, The Unorthodox, things shifted after Stalin's death. By the 1960s, regulating religious life fell under the purview of the Council of Religious Affairs. Sure, the state still emphasized atheism, closed churches, and prosecuted Protestants. But its methods were more surgical and the Council relied more on policing the margins over mass repression. So what was life like for the USSR's Protestant minority? How did they practice their faith and maintain community despite pressures of family, society, and the state? And how did all of this connect to the larger Cold War context where the USSR's archenemy was a Protestant majority country? The Eurasian Knot talked to Miriam about The Unorthodox to learn more about Protestant faith and community during the Cold War. Guest:Miriam Dobson is a Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin and The Unorthodox: Soviet Protestants in Cold-War Ukraine and Russia published by Cornell University Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the transformation of British society since Brexit – a story of the weaponisation of immigration, the erosion of the NHS, and the narrowing of who counts as "British."Drawing on Liam Stanley's excellent book, Britain Alone, we examine how the anxieties that gave rise to the 2016 referendum have been magnified and entrenched in the years since. The referendum did not create the forces that produced it – it gave them permission to speak openly. Racist discourse, once hinted at, is now shouted. Social media has amplified far-right invective. And political parties – first UKIP, then the Brexit Party, then Reform – have seized upon anti-immigrant sentiment as their primary political offering.We explore the devastating human consequences of the "hostile environment" – the set of policies introduced by Theresa May as Home Secretary to make the lives of migrants "miserable, costly and precarious." The Windrush scandal, in which thousands of people who had legally lived in the UK for decades were detained, deported, or stripped of their rights, is the most extreme example. Sylvester Marshall, who moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1973, was denied cancer treatment because he could not prove his immigration status – despite having lived and worked in Britain for 44 years.The episode also examines the "nationalisation" of the NHS – not in terms of state ownership, but in terms of making the state more national in its regulation and distribution of resources. Eligibility for healthcare, housing, and other essentials of life has become based around nationality – and as defined by Britain's right, based around whiteness. The logic of these changes cannot be reduced to austerity alone; they are a political project of exclusion.Topics covered:Brexit and the mainstreaming of racist discourseThe Windrush scandal and the hostile environmentThe "nationalisation" of the NHSThe politics of austerity and punishmentPost-imperial Britishness and the racialisation of immigrationThe bipartisan embrace of anti-immigrant policiesIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us – we are migrating from Patreon to Substack. Details in the show notes.Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Support the Show & Get Exclusive ContentBecome a Patron: patreon.com/explaininghistory▸ Join the Community & Continue the ConversationFacebook Group: facebook.com/groups/ExplainingHistoryPodcastSubstack: theexplaininghistorypodcast.substack.com▸ Read Articles & Go DeeperWebsite: explaininghistory.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kemi Badenoch has kicked off the new political term with a major reshuffle of her top team. Michael and Maddie ask what the changes tell us about the direction of the Conservative party, whether Andrew Griffith can sharpen its economic offer – and whether Badenoch is already preparing for an early election.Meanwhile, Andy Burnham returns to the Commons after a relatively comfortable summer. Has the Prime Minister been governing on ‘easy mode' so far, and is his brand of politics simply the ‘cheesy side of Blairism' without the substance?Also: ahead of Reform's party conference, is Nigel Farage building a credible government-in-waiting – or is the party still fighting a battle for its soul?Produced by Henry Lloyd and Oscar Edmondson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We break down a major headline taking over the news as a Postal Service whistleblower speaks out regarding President Trump's executive order on voter rolls. Dawn and election integrity attorney Linda Kearns examine allegations that the USPS hastily built a new ballot tracking system that could end up rejecting thousands of mail-in ballots. We dive into the legal, political, and policy fallout surrounding mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, comparing the state's outdated election code to Florida's streamlined voting procedures. Linda explains the risks of voter roll lists, why drop boxes may actually be safer than standard mailboxes, and how election code reform remains a critical fight ahead of upcoming elections. Dawn and the crew react to the ongoing jury deliberations in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy trial. Tensions flare in the studio as Dawn expresses her intense frustration with the deliberating jury, demanding swift justice for the three slain children and questioning the defense's strategy. Linda provides a grounded legal perspective on the realities of the American justice system, explaining why getting twelve jurors to agree is an uphill battle, how insanity defenses work, and what a potential verdict or institutional commitment actually means for the case. Dawn shifts the focus back to finding peace amidst a heavy news cycle, highlighting the small joys of summer, the beauty of fireflies, and her trust in Natural Lawn of America for fall lawn care. To wrap up the show on a much-needed lighter note, we share a heartwarming video of a piano-playing, howling dog accompanied by a dancing toddler, reminding us all to stay grateful and enjoy a relaxing afternoon before handing the mic over to The Dom Show.

Yes, physical gold is a safe haven, but gold also attracts a lot of speculative capital, particularly the paper markets. Gold futures are among the most traded futures in the world, and there is nothing physical about them. So when there is a panic, gold tends to sell off along with everything else as liquidity dries up and everyone rushes to cash.The US dollar is actually the safe haven, except that it isn't, because you are bleeding 7 or 8% of value every year to money supply growth.I am getting so many messages at the moment asking me what to do “when the collapse comes”, as though the collapse of fiat is a foregone conclusion. I don't think it is. I think continued depreciation is more likely. Fiat could collapse, of course, but we are in a probabilities game and I'd give it perhaps a 25% probability, while continued depreciation I'd put at well over 50% likelihood.At present we have three financial storms on the horizon. Whether they actually reach us or not remains to be seen, but we should be aware of them nonetheless, so that we can be prepared if they do eventually close in.Nasty stock market correction ahead?They are, first, the fact that US markets are so leveraged to AI. You don't even need the AI bubble to pop, you just need it to deflate a little bit, and it takes the S&P500 down with it.It's not like I, and many others besides, haven't mentioned this before, but it bears mentioning again: the Magnificent Seven, which are highly AI oriented, currently account for about a third of the combined market capitalisation of the S&P's 500 companies. Ten years ago the equivalent concentration was around 15%, and that seemed like a lot.From an asset allocation perspective - particularly with so much passive investing - this is dangerous, to put it mildly. Concentration is fine when markets are going up. If you're concentrated in the right sector you make a lot of money. But when things unravel you get your backside handed to you on a plate. Diversification spreads risk. The S&P500 “should” be diversified. It isn't. Passive investing is supposed to be diversified. It isn't.But this has been the case for a long time. It hasn't mattered. It doesn't matter until it does.Then there is the fact that every mid-term election years have a tendency to deliver autumn drawdowns. According to some sources, every year. If we get a significant drawdown in the S&P500, the safehaven that is gold will sell off too.Wobbly bondsThe second financial storm - is it even on the horizon any more? - lies in the government bond market. It's worth remembering just how large the bond market is. The global value is estimated at around $145 trillion, so larger than the combined stock market which is closer to $130 trillion.You have probably seen headlines this week saying bond markets are “on fire” and that governments are “in hock to the bond market”. Government debt across the developed world - and deficits with it - have risen dramatically since Covid, and the bond markets are not so willing to finance that borrowing at the ultra-low rates of the previous decade. Investors want more yield for their risk. Can't say I blame them.That basically translates as, “if I am to lend you money for ten years, you are going to have to pay me 5% interest, maybe more. 2% is no longer enough.”As yields rise, the cost of servicing debt rises with them. Just a small increase can add tens of billions to annual interest payments.The US has the enormous advantage of issuing the world's reserve currency, but its huge structural deficits mean it is vulnerable. Japan, Britain, France and Italy are particularly at risk because they combine high debt burdens with fiscal or political problems.Higher yields mean higher interest payments, which make deficits larger, requiring governments to issue still more debt. Vicious circle time. Governments try to avoid this by issuing shorter-term debt, but that merely increases refinancing exposure. The US Treasury's increasing reliance on shorter maturities is therefore a concern.Politicians might promise to spend more, but somebody has to buy their debt. If investors want a significantly higher return, governments may find that fiscal policy is increasingly dictated by the bond market rather than by politicians.You may see that as a good thing and it probably is. Government spending has to be reined in somehow. But higher interest rates will put pressure on real estate and equities, and they increase the likelihood of defaults, which tend to snowball. See 2008 for more details.Defaults should also increase demand for gold, because there is no liability or counterparty. But that doesn't happen straight away, necessarily. The liquidity has to come out of the market first, and that means everything goes lower. Just gold doesn't go down quite as much and it turns back up first.The reaction of governments to a debt crisis will of course be to print. And that too benefits gold.Which brings us to financial storm number three on the horizon, although this one is really a subset of two.The UK. It is a standout amongst all of this. Our interest rates are already high, which means greater pressure on the government (they are the main reason sterling has held up). We have a new Prime Minister, who is currently trying to buy popularity and who seems to think that the solution to many of the UK's problems is more government spending, not less, and that will require more borrowing and higher taxes. But he has inherited a precarious fiscal position and a bond market that is already demanding a substantial return. Ten-year gilt e yields have risen above 5%, their highest level in 18 years, and longer-term borrowing costs have reached a 28-year high, with 30-year gilt yields closing down on 6%.The political situation is also awkward. The combined right-wing vote exceeds the Labour vote by some considerable distance, but it is split between the Tories, Reform and Restore. Does Burnham exploit this to call an early election? Will his backbenchers even let him if he wants to do this? Will an early election mean greater or less stability?On the other hand high rates are at least propping sterling up. I say propping up. On a purchasing power parity basis, the UK is actually cheap and sterling too. Doesn't mean it can't get cheaper. As UK nationals, we have inevitable exposure to sterling, but the prudent thing for a UK citizen to do is reduce sterling exposure. Hold non-government currencies is my advice: gold and bitcoin. I'll have more on the la tter soon.BOLD.L might be the way. Most roads lead to gold at the moment but they are rocky roads.If you live in a third world country such as the UK, I urge you to own gold or silver. The pound will be further devalued, as will the euro and dollar. The bullion dealer I use and recommend is The Pure Gold Company. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. More here.Other mattersI have turned my Britain On Sale series of seven undervalued companies that could be taken out during the current takeover frenzy into a downloadable PDF report. Here it is.There is a real opportunity here right here and now. I cannot stress that enough. The UK is cheap and being bought up.And last but not least, The Secret History of Gold is now out in paperback in the UK, so get your copy now. It has had excellent reviews and has now reached best seller status, I'm delighted to report, with the audiobook especially popular. This is a public episode. 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It's been a busy week in politics. Andy Burnham is back, delivering a barnstorming speech attacking the legacy of Thatcherism and Brexit… before promptly getting himself into a spot of bother over a Sainsbury's work-experience scheme, political donations and a rather fetching supermarket fleece. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer quits as an MP, James Cleverly quits the Shadow Cabinet to spend TWO YEARS campaigning to become Mayor of London, and Reform continues its relentless assault on reality.Marina and Jemma ask why every Reform brain fart seems to become a BBC headline, examine Robert Jenrick's latest immigration claims, and marvel at Peter Hitchens being forced to publicly deny that he thinks Rupert Lowe is the next Winston Churchill.And then, because this is The Trawl, the Trawl ladies move seamlessly from the state of the nation to men who deliberately don't shower before dates, Jemma's frustration with dating, the £450,000 Birkin bag from hell and the enduring question: how quickly can one shower before becoming a social pariah?Politics, hypocrisy, free labour, filthy rich people and filthy men. Just another day on The Trawl.Join The Trawl's Facebook BRAND NEW Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590931382660Get your tickets for The Trawl Live from https://thetrawl.tix.to/ticketsThank you for sharing and please do follow us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreonhttps://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@TheTrawl Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TheTrawlPodcastIf you've even mildly enjoyed The Trawl, you'll love the unfiltered, no-holds-barred extras from Jemma & Marina over on Patreon, including:• Exclusive episodes of The Trawl Goss – where Jemma and Marina spill backstage gossip, dive into their personal lives, and often forget the mic is on• Early access to The Trawl Meets…• Glorious ad-free episodesPlus, there's a bell-free community of over 3,300 legends sparking brilliant chat.And it's your way to support the pod which the ladies pour their hearts, souls (and occasional anxiety) into. All for your listening pleasure and reassurance that through this geopolitical s**tstorm… you're not alone.Come join the fun:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In 1978, a farmer in rural China could not sell a sack of grain above the state quota, choose an employer, or move to the nearest city without a permit.In this week's VoxDev Talk, Kaiji Chen and Tao Zha (both Emory University and Atlanta Fed) explain how China dismantled barriers like this one at a time. Gradualist reform first gave farmers the right to sell surplus grain at market prices. Small state firms were privatised 19 years later, while the largest kept state backing. This style of reform powered two distinct growth engines: first, labour moving off the land, then a wave of capital into infrastructure and property. The result: half a century of unprecedented growth -- but it also produced the debt, inequality and trade tension now working against China's growth model.The research behind this episode:Chen, Kaiji, and Tao Zha. 2025. "China's Macroeconomic Development: The Role of Gradualist Reforms." Journal of Economic Literature 63 (4): 1331-62.To cite this episode:Phillips, Tim, Kaiji Chen, and Tao Zha. 2026. "Fifty years of Chinese growth: The gradualist reform strategy explained." VoxDev Talk (podcast).About the guestsKaiji Chen is Professor of Economics at Emory University and a research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Center for Quantitative Economic Research. His research spans financial contracts, business cycles and China's macroeconomy, with recent work on housing policy, credit allocation and household consumption in China.Tao Zha is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University and executive director of the Center for Quantitative Economic Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2017. His research spans macroeconomics, financial economics and econometrics, with a long standing focus on China's economy.Research cited in this episodeThe household responsibility system. Piloted in Sichuan and Anhui from 1978 and adopted nationwide by 1980, this reform kept land collectively owned but contracted it to individual households, who could sell output above a fixed state quota at market prices. It replaced work point pay with a direct link between effort and income, and the productivity gains it released freed the rural labour surplus behind China's first wave of industrialisation.Township and village enterprises (TVEs). Rural, collectively owned firms that absorbed workers leaving agriculture through the 1980s and 1990s, often with local governments acting as guarantors for bank credit the firms could not secure alone. TVE employment grew from 28 million in 1978 to 135 million by 1997, and TVE output rose from under 6% of GDP to 26% over roughly the same period.The hukou system. China's household registration system, introduced in 1958, ties access to housing, healthcare, education and grain rations to a person's registered location, rural or urban. It made moving to a city without an urban permit practically impossible. Restrictions eased in stages from the late 1990s, and the formal rural urban distinction was removed nationwide only in 2014."Grasp the large, let go of the small." The policy, initiated in 1997, under which China privatised or allowed the bankruptcy of small and medium state owned enterprises while retaining state control of the largest, most capital intensive firms in sectors such as infrastructure, energy and real estate.WTO accession and permanent Most Favoured Nation status. China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. From 2002, permanent MFN status with the United States removed the annual threat of tariff spikes on Chinese exports, a stability that Chen and Zha's paper credits with accelerating China's shift from labour intensive exports toward electronics and other capital intensive goods.The 2009 stimulus and local government financing vehicles. In response to the global financial crisis, China launched a four trillion RMB fiscal package alongside a sharp expansion of bank lending. Much of the resulting infrastructure spending ran through local government financing vehicles, off budget entities set up to borrow for public projects; the debt they built up is now central to China's financial stability risks.Total social financing. International Monetary Fund. 2026. "People's Republic of China: 2025 Article IV Consultation." IMF Country Report No. 26/044. The IMF's broadest measure of credit in the Chinese economy, the figure Kaiji Chen cites as roughly 315% of GDP in 2025.More VoxDev Talks episodesThe Four Pests campaign and China's Great Famine, in which Shaoda Wang traces a darker chapter of Chinese economic history, the mass eradication of sparrows during the Great Leap Forward and the millions of deaths that followed.The rise and fall of China's overseas lending, in which Sebastian Horn explains how China became the developing world's largest bilateral creditor, and why that lending boom has now gone into reverse.Related reading on VoxDev.orgThe Mandarin model of growth, on how China's system of promoting local officials for delivering growth shaped decades of investment led expansion.How China became the world's factory: Trade, industrial policy, and growth, on the trade liberalisation and industrial policy that took China from export processing to global manufacturing leader.The bubble dynamics of China's housing boom, Edward Glaeser on the construction surge behind the price rises Chen and Zha describe in this episode.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune joins The Brian Kilmeade Show to discuss the ongoing U.S.-Canada trade tensions, the strategic use of tariffs, and the impact on American agricultural producers. Senator Thune also shares his concerns regarding recent Pentagon leadership shakeups, the urgent need for defense procurement reform, and the geopolitical battle for AI dominance against China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Craig and Kevin have a guest in the studio this week: Jessi Cowart, a lifelong Montgomery County resident from Oak Ridge North who is running for Texas House District 15 as a Libertarian. The seat is open because Steve Toth is running for Congress, and Jessi says that if she wins she would be the first Libertarian ever seated in the Texas House. She came across our radar after our last conversation about Flock cameras, and she has plenty to say about them. First, civil asset forfeiture, which she calls legalized theft. Under the way Texas law is written the property itself becomes the defendant rather than the person, the burden of proof is almost nonexistent, and getting your property back is incredibly difficult even when you are never convicted of anything. Reform bills get filed every single legislative session and die every single session, and she puts that down to law enforcement lobby money rather than any real disagreement, since the Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian platforms in Texas all say they want it ended. Then the cameras. Jessi announced this week that she has drafted the Texas Automatic License Plate Reader Prohibition Act, an outright ban on government use of automatic license plate readers with anti-circumvention language in it. If she is elected on November 3rd, bill filing opens November 9th, and she says this is her first order of business. Her Fourth Amendment argument is not about one license plate seen in public, it is about the aggregate: a searchable database of where you live, where you work, where you worship, and who you associate with. We also get into The Woodlands Township unanimously approving $109,000 for 30 more cameras in December, with roughly $90,000 a year in ongoing cost after that, and the separate $50 million agreement to permanently end the City of Houston's right to annex the community. The longest stretch is property taxes, and she brought the math. Use the state budget surplus, which was running $27 to $28 billion at the start of last session and does not count the rainy day fund, to buy down school district M&O tax debt. Put real spending caps on local government, because Texas has five spending limits on the state and none at all on cities, MUDs, and school districts. Cut things like the $1.5 billion committed over ten years to Hollywood filmmaking in Texas. Then shift what remains toward sales tax without raising it astronomically. She thinks elimination in five years is realistic. Kevin tells the story of buying a house from an older woman who had a 65 and over exemption, and getting handed roughly $5,000 in back taxes two years later. We close on homeowner ground: why the median age of a first time buyer is now 40, why Jessi wants more small starter homes, duplexes, and condos rather than the same single family build on every parcel, her idea for a permit clock so permitting delays stop getting priced into every new house, why developers rather than existing taxpayers should pay for new development, and Craig's 25 year old employee in downtown Conroe who lined up three roommates before he closed on his first house. Jessi Cowart is on Facebook, Instagram, and X, and her campaign site is cowartfortexas.com Every episode with full transcripts: homeownersshow.com/episodes New episodes every week. Rate and review wherever you listen. It genuinely helps. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Wellness and optimisation culture increasingly presents itself as "science-based". But citing studies, using technical language, or having scientific credentials does not guarantee that the underlying evidence is being represented accurately. In this episode, exercise science researcher Dr. Nick Tiller, discusses how science can be selectively packaged, overstated, and used to support commercially attractive health claims. It explores the difference between science communication and science commodification, why scientific scepticism is distinct from cynicism, how anecdotes and mechanistic explanations can mislead, and why a single peer-reviewed study should never be treated as definitive evidence. The conversation also looks further upstream at problems within science itself, including low statistical power, p-hacking, publication bias, questionable research practices, and academic incentives that may favour novelty and positive findings. These issues can then be amplified through media, social platforms, and the wellness industry until tentative findings become confident recommendations. Timestamps: [03:14] Interview start [06:22] The health and wellness "lie" [08:38] Optimization and the illusion of control [11:14] Science communicators vs commodifiers [14:21] Vitamin D hype case study [20:54] Spotting misinformation online [24:50] Skepticism not cynicism [28:47] Guidelines for debunking [33:46] Spotting the grift pattern [41:25] Bad science in academia [54:47] Key ideas segment (Premium-only) Episode Resources: Go to episode page Join the Sigma newsletter for free Subscribe to Sigma Nutrition Premium Enroll in the next cohort of our Applied Nutrition Literacy course Dr. Tiller's website Tiller & Phillips, 2023 – How Skepticism (not Cynicism) Can Raise Scientific Standards and Reform the Health and Wellness Industry Tiller et al., 2024 – The Nontechnical Summary: A New Initiative to Enhance the Translation of Sports Science Research and Reduce the Spread of Misinformation

How do you rebuild a life after the justice system takes 16 years from you for a crime you did not commit? Wrongful convictions represent one of the most devastating failures of the criminal justice system. An estimated 1% to 6% of incarcerated Americans are innocent, translating to roughly 20,000 to over 100,000 wrongfully convicted individuals currently serving time in U.S. prisons. According to data compiled by organizations like the Innocence Project and the National Registry of Exonerations, over 3,300 people have been exonerated since 1989, collectively losing more than 27,000 years behind bars. Jeffrey Deskovic knows that reality firsthand. At just 17 years old, Jeffrey was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of his high school classmate, Angela Correa. He spent 16 years in prison, losing much of his youth and early adulthood, before DNA evidence finally established his innocence and led to his exoneration. The DNA evidence identified Steven Cunningham as the actual perpetrator. While Jeffrey was incarcerated, Cunningham remained free and later committed another murder—an agonizing reminder that wrongful convictions can create additional victims when the real perpetrator escapes accountability. Jeffrey could have allowed those 16 stolen years to define the rest of his life. Instead, he transformed his experience into a mission. Since his exoneration, he has dedicated himself to preventing wrongful convictions, advocating for criminal justice reform, educating legal and law-enforcement professionals, and fighting to free innocent people still behind bars. He has delivered more than 100 presentations, authored more than 200 articles, participated in hundreds of media interviews, testified before lawmakers, and contributed to conversations surrounding wrongful-conviction reform and the death penalty. He also invested $1.5 million of his own compensation to establish The Deskovic Foundation, an organization dedicated to exonerating the wrongfully convicted and pursuing reforms designed to prevent future miscarriages of justice. Through its work, the Foundation has helped innocent people regain something that can never truly be replaced: their freedom. Jeffrey's pursuit of justice eventually took him somewhere particularly meaningful—the legal profession itself. After earning a B.A. in Behavioral Science and a master's degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he earned his law degree from the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, twice making the Dean's List. Today, he is a licensed attorney in New York, giving him another powerful avenue to fight directly for people who maintain their innocence. This week on Let's Have This Conversation, Jeffrey Deskovic joins me for a deeply meaningful conversation about wrongful conviction, redemption, equality, accountability, and what genuine criminal justice reform requires. We explore what happens when the institutions entrusted with delivering justice get it catastrophically wrong, the human consequences of prosecutorial and investigative failures, the reforms necessary to reduce wrongful convictions, and how Jeffrey turned unimaginable injustice into a lifelong commitment to securing justice for others. His story ultimately challenges all of us to consider a fundamental question: If justice is supposed to protect the innocent and hold the guilty accountable, what responsibility do we have to confront the system when it fails to do either?       For more information: https://www.deskovicfoundation.org/ Follow: @TheJeffreyDeskovicFoundation Watch: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0T652A1QC6N6Y3K8WSIX2VQW2I Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Setting up the stories for the week ahead… The carefree summer of announcing fun policies is over for Andy Burnham as Parliament returns with tricky questions on defence funding, prisoner release and the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields. Plus: Reshuffle time as Badenoch rearranges the deckchairs on the Torytanic. It's Reform conference week. And was the Bayeux Tapestry the first-ever comic book? Ros Taylor and Andrew Harrison take you through the stories of the week ahead.Get tomorrow's Bunker today when you back us on Patreon – www.patreon.com/bunkercastWritten and presented by Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Audio production: Simon Williams. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.www.podmasters.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talk of an election is cranked up on the eve of the Westminster Parliament returning to session. From Dame Priti Patel's shadow cabinet exit to Andy Burnham's constitutional landmines over border polls, Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson dig into a week defined by grand promises, administrative centralisation, and missing strategies. Meanwhile, BBC Scotland faces plummeting ratings, local councils battle depopulation without visa powers, and the Nordic model offers a stark, practical contrast to Britain's spiralling prison crisis. In this episode, we discuss:Tory Reshuffle & Snap Election Rumours: Dame Priti Patel and Sir Mel Stride exit as Labour eyes a potential 2027 snap election to lock in their lead over Reform.SNP Draft Agenda Stagnation: Party HQ releases a muted draft conference agenda lacking core independence strategy, but where is the will to do anything about it from SNP members?Prisons Crisis & Nordic Solutions: Lessons from Norway's 1990s prison reform, which traded punitive overcrowding for a focus on rehabilitation and leading to massive drop in the reoffending rate.Holyrood's Food Price Cap: John Swinney's proposed basic price caps face heavy retail pushback and potential clashes with Westminster's Internal Market Act.Burnham's Border Poll Blunder: The Prime Minister dismisses a Northern Ireland border poll, triggering pushback from Sinn Féin over Good Friday Agreement legislation.Iceland Rejects EU Talks: Why 53% of Icelandic voters blocked restarting EU accession talks to protect fishing rights despite existing EFTA and Schengen ties.Pacific Quay's Audience Slump: Radio Scotland's morning slot suffers a 40% listener drop as critics compare the empty BBC headquarters to a redundant call centre.Scottish Visas & Realpolitik: Business leaders push for tailored migration schemes, while SNP Westminster leader Dave Doogan courts controversy over negotiating with any party.District Heating Progress: How Aberdeen is utilizing existing gas riser routes to connect homes directly to clean district heating networks.LinksWill Burnham rewrite UK constitution and try to handcuff in the Celts?https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/02/devolution-programme-written-uk-constitution-andy-burnhamThe authorless Burnham Programme Websitehttps://theburnhamprogramme.co.ukBurnarism Consitutional Reformhttps://theburnhamprogramme.co.uk/burnham-written-constitution-devolution ★ Support this podcast ★

John Maytham is joined now by activist Monique Muller, who spent almost three weeks in Pollsmoor Prison before the firearm charges against her were withdrawn by the NPA, and who is now calling for greater accountability and reform of South Africa’s correctional facilities. Presenter John Maytham is an actor and author-turned-talk radio veteran and seasoned journalist. His show serves a round-up of local and international news coupled with the latest in business, sport, traffic and weather. The host’s eclectic interests mean the program often surprises the audience with intriguing book reviews and inspiring interviews profiling artists. A daily highlight is Rapid Fire, just after 5:30pm. CapeTalk fans call in, to stump the presenter with their general knowledge questions. Another firm favourite is the humorous Thursday crossing with award-winning journalist Rebecca Davis, called “Plan B”. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Afternoon Drive with John Maytham Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 15:00 and 18:00 (SA Time) to Afternoon Drive with John Maytham broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/BSFy4Cn or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/n8nWt4x Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You don't need a bad man to destroy a republic. You need a competent one with a practical problem and a solution that works a little too well.Gaius Marius should never have mattered. He was a nobody from a hill town southeast of Rome. He clawed his way into the Senate through military competence because his family had no name and no network. And then he faced a genuine crisis — Rome literally could not fill its legions. He fixed it. He removed the property qualification that had kept the landless poor out of military service, saved Rome from Jugurtha in North Africa, and then saved Rome again from the Germanic tribes that nearly annihilated it in 105 BC.He did what nobody else could do. And the same reform that saved Rome killed the Republic 60 years later.This is the mechanism. Not the myth. The specific chain of cause and effect that turned a manpower reform into personal military armies loyal to individual generals rather than to the state — the mechanism Sulla would use in 88 BC to march on Rome, and Caesar would use in 49 BC to finish the Republic.This is Episode 119 of The Fall of the Republic series on The Roman Pattern.Chapters:00:00 How republics actually die01:36 Where we are in the series02:28 Marius: the new man from Arpinum04:34 Rome's manpower crisis — the property qualification problem06:35 The Jugurtha War — "a city for sale"08:07 107 BC — Marius opens the ranks11:05 Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae — Rome saved from annihilation15:07 The mechanism — how soldier loyalty shifted from Rome to the general17:46 Saturninus and the first veteran land grants (103, 100 BC)18:33 Breaking the Lex Genucia — five consecutive consulships21:11 Sulla learns the trick22:17 88 BC — Sulla marches on Rome24:18 Marius flees — two ruins looking at each other25:06 Return, purges, and 17 days26:29 Money, Borders, Power — the three fault lines28:17 The pattern — load-bearing constraints30:36 Next week: SullaSources referenced in this episode:— Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum— Plutarch, Life of Marius— Appian, The Civil Wars, Book 1— Livy, Periochae 65-80— Orosius, Histories Against the Pagans— Mary Beard, SPQR— Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (1939)— H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to NeroThe Fall of the Republic series continues Monday with Sulla — the first man in Roman history to march his legions on Rome itself.Subscribe for The Roman Pattern every Monday.#Rome #MarianReforms #RomanRepublic

After six years of legal fights, we finally have a federal court ruling in Chuck's dispute with Minnesota's engineering licensing board. Chuck and Strong Towns executive director John Reuter go back to the complaint that started the case, why Chuck's temporarily lapsed license became the opening for the board's action, and how a dispute over his public advocacy turned into years of hearings and litigation. Chuck also reflects on reaching the end of a fight that has followed him for years and what the decision could mean for other engineers who have held back from speaking publicly about their profession. Additional Show Notes Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (Site) Can an Engineer Speak Out for Reform? (Article) Chuck Marohn (Substack)   This podcast is made possible by Strong Towns members. Thank you! Join fellow members discussing this episode in The Commons.

This is astonishing.Malcolm Offord is the leader of Reform in Scotland and led them to a huge result in May, tying with Scottish Labour on 17 seats. But that day had mixed feelings for him as he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It was the latest chapter in an incredible life that led him from Greenock on the west coast of Scotland, to the House of Lords via the City of London.Made a peer and a minister by Boris Johnson, Malcolm has brilliant stories about dealing with him, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. See the Political Party Live on Stage:9 November: Liz Kendall (London)21 December: Wes Streeting (London)GET TICKETS for Matt's brand new stand-up show Project Holy Moly at the Edinburgh Festival and touring nationwide in 2027:www.mattforde.comMARCH19 FAVERSHAM The Alex20 DORKING HallsAPRIL7 STOURBRIDGE Town Hall8 GLOUCESTER Guildhall9 LEICESTER Y Theatre12 SALFORD Lowry16 NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate21 EXETER Northcott Theatre24 LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre28 ALNWICK Playhouse29 BARNARD CASTLE Witham30 HULL AsylumMAY6 BIRMINGHAM The Glee Club12 COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre13 WORCESTER Huntingdon Hall14 CHORLEY Theatre18 STAMFORD Corn Exchange19 SHEFFIELD Steamworks20 SHREWSBURY Theatre Severn21 NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal23 LEEDS City Varieties Music Hall26 NORWICH Playhouse27 NORWICH PlayhouseJUNE2 SCUNTHORPE Plowright4 CANTERBURY Gulbenkian Theatre5 READING Concert Hall8 CARDIFF The Glee Club9 BATH Komedia10 MONMOUTH Savoy Theatre11 CHIPPING NORTON The Theatre15 BURY ST EDMUNDS Theatre Royal16 MILTON KEYNES The Stables18 TUNBRIDGE WELLS Trinity Theatre30 LIVERPOOL Everyman PlayhouseJULY1 CARLISLE Old Fire Station2 GLASGOW The Glee Club4 EDINBURGH Lyceum Theatre Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this powerful message, Samuel Goulet calls listeners to see revival not as a distant event, but as a personal surrender that begins now and overflows into families, workplaces, cities, and nations. Drawing from Scripture and historic moves of God. He shows how true reformation starts with repentance, renewal by the Holy Spirit, and a life reconciled to Christ—then becomes a witness that can transform culture. If you're hungry for deeper faith, renewed purpose, and a vision for what God can do through ordinary people fully yielded to Him, this episode will stir your heart and challenge you to live as part of that overflow.

 Eduardo talks about his organizing efforts on the, outskirts of Mexico City and discusses the relationship of working with a group of concerned citizens taking car of city strays to the possibility of revolution.  Check us out!To see all our episodes go to:What's Left? Website: https://whatsleftpodcast.com/iTunes: Spotify: Bitchute: YouTube:  LBRY: Telegram :Odysee:  Googleplaymusic: Rumble 

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Reform has spent the summer taking lumps out of itself, with the battles leaking into public view, and it's position in the polls slipping to around 25 percent. Just in time for conference season, James Heale is joined by Nick Tyrone, whose new book The Rise of Reform is the product of 18 months trailing the party's candidates and activists, to discuss whether Nigel Farage can get the show back on the road before the May 2027 local elections.Produced by Oscar Edmondson and Henry LloydBecome a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts.Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian Collins unpacks the latest as hundreds of police officers from across Britain have been sent to Middlesbrough amid fears of escalating gang violence. A series of suspected gang-related incidents has taken place since Saturday, when a wrong-way crash on the A66 killed two police officers and five young men. Meanwhile Reform UK has pledged to prevent people from voting if their English is not good enough to understand the electoral rules. Officials in polling stations would be told to deny someone a ballot paper if they were concerned about “their ability to understand the voting process or language”. Do you agree with Reform? Kemi Badenoch has vowed to deport every illegal immigrant, stating that Britain is “our home, not a hotel”. Writing in The Sun, the Tory leader repeated her pledge to leave the ECHR and accused Labour of putting people with “fundamentally different cultures and beliefs on our doorsteps”.Wake up with Talk Breakfast in full on YouTube, DAB+ radio, Samsung TV Plus or the Talk App on your TV from 6am every morning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Builders openly bragging about dodging tax at a trade show, Trump quietly admitting his own tariffs backfired by striking a deal to import cheaper beef right after telling ranchers he had their backs and an American food safety crisis. Jemma and Marina have a lot to talk about what with food recalls stacking up in the US. There are dodgy eggs, blueberries, cheese and lettuce, as regulators get gutted from underneath. Then, closer to home: Reform UK's baffling new housing policy. Announced by divorced Richard Tice, it prioritises married couples and quietly punishes single parents and people fleeing abusive relationships. Lee Anderson and Laila Cunningham try to defend. Plus, the one story this week that'll actually restore your faith in people, because sometimes trawlers, it's not all bad news. The Trawl ladies end on a note that will warm your cockles. Enjoy! Join The Trawl's Facebook BRAND NEW Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590931382660Get your tickets for The Trawl Live from https://thetrawl.tix.to/ticketsThank you for sharing and please do follow us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreonhttps://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@TheTrawl Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TheTrawlPodcastIf you've even mildly enjoyed The Trawl, you'll love the unfiltered, no-holds-barred extras from Jemma & Marina over on Patreon, including:• Exclusive episodes of The Trawl Goss – where Jemma and Marina spill backstage gossip, dive into their personal lives, and often forget the mic is on• Early access to The Trawl Meets…• Glorious ad-free episodesPlus, there's a bell-free community of over 3,300 legends sparking brilliant chat.And it's your way to support the pod which the ladies pour their hearts, souls (and occasional anxiety) into. All for your listening pleasure and reassurance that through this geopolitical s**tstorm… you're not alone.Come join the fun:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we take a minute to remember dear Dolly Parton (Comrade Dolly!); an extraordinary force of nature, talented musician, incredibly generous person and fierce ally, whose kindness and positivity inspired millions across the world–we've lost one of the good ones. Meanwhile, Coco gets the lowdown from Cody about his latest video being flagged for bullying (billionaire Mark Zuckerberg?!) during Meta's child privacy trial. Since we recorded this episode, Meta has settled for $17bn, agreeing major changes to its platforms including usage limits and nighttime blocks. Also, Reform is at it again, unveiling a policy to prioritise social housing for ‘British born workers' and married couples. But…you have to keep your gardens tidy? Coco & Cody discuss what sits at the heart of this latest divisive declaration. And: are we living in a Corrupted Kingdom? Robert Barrington thinks so. As the former head of Transparency International and professor of Anti-Corruption, he joins us to talk about why we're reluctant to use the ‘C' word in the UK, and what we can do to safeguard against corruption across all aspects of British society. USEFUL LINKShttps://www.transparency.org/en https://antislapp.uk/Buy Robert's Book! https://www.waterstones.com/book/corrupted-kingdom/robert-barrington/9781805223153 CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS INCOGNI: https://www.incogni.com/podsavetheuk Code: podsavetheukHEXCLAD:  https://www.hexclad.co.uk/PSTUK SHOPIFY: https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheukPod Save the UK is an Intelligence Squared production for Crooked Media.Don't forget you can get in touch! Contact us via email: podsavetheuk@crooked.com if you want to share questions, thoughts, or general musings! Like and follow us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Instagram: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk X: https://x.com/podsavetheuk

The bipartisan 2016 Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg) Amendments enacted extensive changes to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that many hoped would set the law on a new course, address its widely recognized challenges, and accelerate U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions to address public health threats. Since then, four administrations have put their mark on implementation of the amended law. The past ten years have seemed like a roller coaster of competing legal interpretations of some of the Lautenberg Amendments' most significant provisions, scientific debate and analyses, rulemakings, delays in meeting TSCA deadlines, and major milestones. To celebrate Lautenberg's ten-year anniversary, the Environmental Law Institute, the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, and B&C convened an all-day conference: TSCA Reform -- Ten Years Later. The podcast you are about to hear is the panel discussion on risk management. This panel focuses on the past, present, and future of risk management under TSCA. With all five final risk management rules in litigation, a debate is underway over whether these rules go too far or not far enough and how much risk reduction we can expect in future rules. The panel also explores what can be learned to date from the pending cases and speculate on how the courts and EPA may reshape future TSCA Section 6 rulemakings. The panel will address recurring policy and legal issues, such as the role of Section 6 in assuring workplace protection and addressing environmental releases from facilities, as well as how EPA can keep pace with TSCA's statutory deadlines for proposed and final rules. ALL MATERIALS IN THIS PODCAST ARE PROVIDED SOLELY FOR INFORMATIONAL  AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. THE MATERIALS ARE NOT INTENDED TO CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE OR THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES. ALL LEGAL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ANSWERED DIRECTLY BY A LICENSED ATTORNEY PRACTICING IN THE APPLICABLE AREA OF LAW. ©2026 Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.  All Rights Reserved

In our weekly Tick Report, we remind listeners that It may be the end of summer but don't let your guard down on ticks and authoritarians. Robert updates us on authoritarian consolidation, as the U.S. Supreme Court left in place Trump's flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional assaults on mail-in ballots. We highlight the great organizing by western Wisconsin community members and GROWW, that resulted in a judge striking down a CAFO permit from the Wisconsin DNR because it does not do enough to protect groundwater. We briefly review the new MU Law Poll, which unsurprisingly shows a tight rac for Governor. We push back on conventional punditry about the poll's findings. Then we welcome Peter Rickman, president of the MASH union, to discuss why the richest nations in the world, the G20, are coming to Milwaukee in late September. We preview a rally on September 30th where Citizen Action will join with labor and civil society organizations outside the G20 meeting to call for a new trade model that creates good-paying jobs, raises wages, enforces worker rights, strengthens family farms, protects the environment, enables A.I. accountability and otherwise puts people over profits. Speaking of authoritarians, we close the show with State Representative Amaad Rivera-Wagner who lays out the clear case against Elon Musk for violating Wisconsin's campaign finance laws, and the head-shaking decision of the LaCrosse County District Attorney to pass on prosecuting the powerful billionaire.

Is Trump's Golden Age already at risk? Todd Starnes confronts the Iran war, the rise of the DSA, and GOP strategy for the 2026 midterm elections. In this episode of The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano sits down with conservative commentator, radio host, and author Todd Starnes to discuss his book, The Golden Age: How Trump Saved America. They examine why the Republican Congress has failed to codify key Trump reforms, how the Iran war threatens the domestic agenda, why civic literacy has collapsed, and why attacks on socialism alone will not save Republicans at the ballot box. The conversation asks whether America has entered a true Golden Age or merely received one final chance to secure the Republic. What You'll Learn in This Episode: Why Congress has failed to codify Trump's agenda and protect key reforms  How the Iran war threatens domestic priorities and divides the MAGA coalition  Why the DSA platform challenges the Constitution, checks and balances, and the oath of office  How failed schools, student debt, and anti-assimilation ideas push young voters toward socialism  What Republicans must offer voters to win the 2026 midterm elections Chapters 00:00 How Trump Stopped America's Socialist Decline 05:22 Is America Really Living in Trump's Golden Age? 07:00 Faith, Founding Values, and Trump's Iran War 12:40 How the Education Crisis Fuels Democratic Socialism 17:19 The DSA Agenda, the Constitution, and the Oath of Office 21:17 Why Republicans Failed to Reform the Federal Bureaucracy 23:39 GOP Strategy for the 2026 Midterm Elections ⭐ Support the Show: If you value principled constitutional analysis, follow The P.A.S. Report on Apple Podcasts, leave a five-star rating wherever your platform allows it, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear it. #TrumpsGoldenAge #ToddStarnes #2026Midterms #DemocraticSocialists #GOPStrategy

Send us Fan MailAbout twenty years ago I was sitting in an administrative meeting at my police department. The chief had made a promise to the city council that we were going to increase our in-service training. It sounded great. Everybody around the table agreed that more training was important.Then reality hit.We didn't have enough officers to cover the street if people went to training. We couldn't pull officers off shift because there was nobody to replace them. On top of that, the city wasn't giving us any additional money, so whatever we came up with had to be done in-house and basically for free.The room got quiet while everyone tried to solve the impossible problem.Finally, one administrator spoke up and said, "Why don't we make a bunch of PowerPoint presentations about department policies? The sergeants can read them during roll call. We'll count each one as thirty minutes of in-service training, and at the end of the year we'll be able to tell the city council we met our goal."I remember sitting there thinking, Yeah...but nobody is actually going to learn anythingAnd I wasn't the only one. I could see it on everyone's faces.Before I could say anything, someone else answered the thought that was on everyone's mind."Who cares? We just have to make the city happy."That sentence has stuck with me ever since.Not because it was malicious. It wasn't. It was the product of a system that cared more about checking a box than building better police officers.And unfortunately, that's how a lot of in-service training in American law enforcement still works today. It's not about protecting the officers. It's not about protecting the community. It's about protecting the government. Because all they have to do is say they tried, but they don't have to try hard. And the reality is they don't try at all.

Phil Egan is back with Wednesday's Football Daily, as Troy Parrott makes his La Liga bow for Real Betis and plays a key role in Pablo Garcia's late winner away to Valencia.There's Champions League heartbreak for Celtic as Martin O'Neill's side blow a four-goal aggregate lead to crash out against LASK in extra time — and O'Neill admits responsibility as the financial hit bites.Plus, Nathan Collins grabs a brace as Brentford hit six in the EFL Cup, Spurs look to respond under Roberto De Zerbi, and there's the latest transfer and legal news — including City's big-money teenager and updates around Omar Marmoush and Ollie Watkins.Become a member and sign up at offtheball.com/join

Dolly Parton, singer, film star & philanthropist, has died at the age of 80.  Plus: A vaccine for melanoma fuels hope in a cure for cancer & we take a look at the crypto company linking the fortunes of Trump & Reform. With Michael Walker, Joe Stone, Saloni Dattani & Sam Bright.

This is the final week Islander VI will be on sale! Buy yours before it's gone. Carl and Luca are joined by Peter C. Barnes to discuss Reform being accidentally right-wing, the coolest thing ever, and why Labour are beating Reform.

Lee Anderson and Richard Tice fronted another Reform presser yesterday, this time on their plans for council housing, should they be elected to government. Included in the announcement was the desire to prioritise council housing for married couples with children, as well as 'British-born' citizens. To analyse this fresh distinction, Oscar Edmondson and James Heale are joined by Ameer Kotecha to go over the plans, and ask whether it is right to draw a line between the Brits who are born here, and those who are not.Produced by Henry LloydBecome a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts.Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Many pharmacy leaders focus on legislation and lobbying. Why is strategic communication on social media equally important?

Is communism having a mini revival? Marxist critiques and socialist ideas are becoming the in thing with Gen Z, while Donald Trump is harking back to the Red Scare of his youth to attack the Democrats. Is it anything more than a resurrected bogeyman for the right? Man of the left, veteran journalist and friend of the pod Paul Mason joins the panel to discuss Reds: A Global History of Communism, his sweeping new history of the movement. Plus: Andy Burnham heads to Ukraine with missile plans in hand, Reform's bullshit policy of the week and much, much more.   • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  • Buy Paul's book Reds: A Global History of Communism from our affiliate bookshop and you'll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org's fees help support independent bookshops too. ESCAPE ROUTES • Zoë has started watching award-winning medical drama The Pitt • Jonn has been watching the BBC murder mystery Ludwig • Paul went to watch Adrian Lester star as the titular character in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End • Andrew has been bingeing the late '70s British fantasy TV hit Sapphire and Steel www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Zoë Grünewald, Jonn Elledge and Paul Mason. Produced by James Liddell. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the Explaining History Podcast, we explore the life and legacy of Harold Wilson – the most successful Labour Prime Minister of the 20th century, and the man who attracted the most fevered paranoia from the British right.Wilson is often misunderstood. To the right, he was a crypto-communist, a threat to the British way of life. To some on the left, he was a betrayer of socialist ideals. The truth is more complex: Wilson was a corporatist, a believer in a managed mixed economy where private enterprise would be guided, not bullied, by the state. He wanted to break the power of the City of London, modernise British industry, and create a "producers' alliance" between manufacturing, unions, and government.This vision – modest by any standard – was met with extraordinary hostility. In the 1960s and 70s, MI5 agents plotted against him, bugged his offices, and discussed military coups. Senior civil servants sabotaged his government's plans. Newspaper barons waged campaigns of character assassination. Wilson was never a socialist, let alone a communist – but he threatened the interests of a ruling class that would not tolerate even mild reform.I draw a parallel with the current moment. The language of the British right – from the Conservative Party to Reform to various crypto-fascist fringe groups – routinely equates the basics of post-war social democracy with communism. The idea that workers should have rights, that there should be a social safety net, that there should be a public health service – these are now described as "communist ideas." This is not a new phenomenon. It is a continuation of the same paranoid tradition that sought to destroy Wilson.We also examine Wilson's attempt to create a Department of Economic Affairs to break Treasury dominance – a battle he lost, and which has echoes in Andy Burnham's current efforts to decentralise economic decision-making. The Treasury won then, and it is winning now.Topics covered:Harold Wilson as corporatistThe post-war social democratic consensusMI5 plots against WilsonThe cult of the "gentleman amateur"Wilson's "white heat of technology" speechThe Department of Economic Affairs and Treasury sabotageThe paranoia of the British rightParallels with the current momentIf you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us – we are migrating from Patreon to Substack. Details in the show notes.Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century through critical conversations and expert interviews. We connect the past to the present. If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and share.▸ Support the Show & Get Exclusive ContentBecome a Patron: patreon.com/explaininghistory▸ Join the Community & Continue the ConversationFacebook Group: facebook.com/groups/ExplainingHistoryPodcastSubstack: theexplaininghistorypodcast.substack.com▸ Read Articles & Go DeeperWebsite: explaininghistory.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Friends of the Rosary,Today, the memorial day of Saint Louis of France and Saint Joseph Calasanz, priest, we see in the Gospel (Matthew 23:23–26) how Jesus forcefully calls the Pharisees—and us—to change their hearts and behavior, and not to be trapped by the ego and its narrow concerns.When the Lord says, “Reform your life,” he means to move from that old mind and make him the center of your life.Also today, in his letter to the Thessalonians (2:1–3a, 14–17), Saint Paul says not to be shaken by rumors, fear, or confusion, but to “stand firm” in the faith. In the Gospel, Jesus warns against looking religious on the outside while neglecting mercy.Today's lesson is that God wants a clean heart, not just clean appearances. Faith is not panic, performance while missing love. It is standing firm in truth and letting mercy shape, avoiding distraction or fear.Ave Maria!Come, Holy Spirit, come!To Jesus through Mary!Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.Please give us the grace to respond with joy!+ Mikel Amigot w/ María Blanca | RosaryNetwork.com, New YorkEnhance your faith with the new Holy Rosary University app:Apple iOS | New! Android Google Play• August 25, 2026, Today's Rosary on YouTube | Daily broadcast at 7:30 pm ET

Following their recently published guest essay in The Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-Ed, “How music and the arts can reconnect an America in crisis” Giraldo and MacPherson argue that America's loneliness crisis—now widely recognized as a growing public health threat—demands urgent federal attention, with music and the arts positioned as scalable, community-based solutions to rebuild connection. To learn more about Come Together and how to get involved, visit: https://www.endsocialisolation.org/cometogether/

This week on the Trawl, the rain finally arrives and apparently that's the cue for the water companies to start dumping sewage, for the right-wing press to blame Muslims for our water shortages, and everyone to start shouting about everything.Marina and Jemma look at Reform's recent setbacks, its curious approach to free speech, Andy Burnham's surprisingly punchy trip to Ukraine, and the extraordinary media frenzy over Harry and Meghan returning to Britain. Plus, why the press seem determined to turn every issue into an immigration story, and a sobering look at the treatment of the late academic Jason Arday.And, naturally, there's a posh person who doesn't think they're posh.Join us for another trawl through the week's news catch, it's slippery, misshapen and occasionally quite rancid.Join The Trawl's Facebook BRAND NEW Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590931382660Get your tickets for The Trawl Live from https://thetrawl.tix.to/ticketsThank you for sharing and please do follow us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreonhttps://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@TheTrawl Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TheTrawlPodcastIf you've even mildly enjoyed The Trawl, you'll love the unfiltered, no-holds-barred extras from Jemma & Marina over on Patreon, including:• Exclusive episodes of The Trawl Goss – where Jemma and Marina spill backstage gossip, dive into their personal lives, and often forget the mic is on• Early access to The Trawl Meets…• Glorious ad-free episodesPlus, there's a bell-free community of over 3,300 legends sparking brilliant chat.And it's your way to support the pod which the ladies pour their hearts, souls (and occasional anxiety) into. All for your listening pleasure and reassurance that through this geopolitical s**tstorm… you're not alone.Come join the fun:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Faces of the Gulf War, we explore the life of Fahd of Saudi Arabia, from his early years as a prince in the House of Saud to becoming the king who invited coalition forces into Saudi Arabia after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the decisions that shaped the Gulf War, and the legacy he left on the Kingdom and the Middle East. For More from the 80s and 90s visit Web: the80sand90s.com    Instagram: @The80sand90sCom  YouTube: The 80s and 90s Overlooked If you enjoy this episode, don't keep it a secret, tell a friend and/or share it on social media so others can experience it as well.   Show Notes Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Fahd of Saudi Arabia" https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fahd EBSCO Research Starters: "Fahd" https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/fahd Middle East Institute: "Mission to Jeddah" (firsthand account of the August 6 meeting) https://mei.edu/publication/mission-jeddah/ PBS Wide Angle: "Who's Who: The House of Saud: King Fahd" https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/whos-who-the-house-of-saud-king-fahd-bin-abdul-aziz-al-saud/2867/ Air and Space Forces Magazine: "The Gulf War: A Chronology" https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0101chrono/ Miller Center, University of Virginia: George H.W. Bush, Address to the Nation, August 8, 1990 https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/august-8-1990-address-iraqs-invasion-kuwait Baker Institute for Public Policy: "MBS, Political Religious Authority and Reform in Saudi Arabia" https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/mbs-political-religious-authority-saudi-arabia Encyclopedia.com: "Fahd, King of Saudi Arabia" https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/culture-magazines/fahd-king-saudi-arabia Wikipedia: "Fahd of Saudi Arabia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia Wikipedia: "Osama bin Laden" (Gulf War section) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

Today, is the Burnham bounce real? And, does it tell us anything about the new prime minister's popularity long term?Adam presents Newscast live on 5live rounding up the political week with James Heale of the Spectator, Emma Burnell of Labour List and Luke Tryl of More in Common. What does Sue Gray think went wrong inside Starmer's number 10? How much should we read into Reform's recent infighting? And, did the public find the emergency alarm annoying?You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscordGet in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480.New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Miranda Slade and Anna Harris . The social producer was . The technical producer was . The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

It continues – thankfully – to be an interesting summer: there's devolution news, Reform taking lumps out of each other and Sue Gray has broken her silence.But first, Andy Burnham is shifting the machinery of government north, promising to put growth at the heart of his new Manchester operation. Will moving power out of Whitehall actually make a difference?Elsewhere, tensions inside Reform spill into the open as Zia Yusuf takes aim at Shippers over his latest Spectator column.Oscar Edmondson, Tim Shipman and James Heale discuss.Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find out more.For more Spectator podcasts, go to spectator.co.uk/podcasts.Contact us: podcast@spectator.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joseph Sternberg addresses the looming "year of doom" in 2032, when the Social Security trust fund is projected to run out. Without reform, benefits could be slashed by 22% to match current payroll tax revenues, creating a massive political crisis. Sternberg explores potential remedies such as means testing for high-earners like Elon Musk or raising the payroll tax cap, though he warns these could impact broader economic growth. He highlights the generational fairness issue of asking younger workers to fund benefits that baby boomers were unprepared to pay for themselves. The discussion also covers the rise of Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who broadcasts far-left economic views to a younger audience. While Piker is photogenic and compelling, Sternberg describes him as a "popularizer" rather than a deep thinker. Piker's pugnacious approach serves as a bellwether for whether radical progressive ideas can succeed in general elections. (5)