Best With Emily P Freeman Podcasts (2025)

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Lawfare Daily: The End of USAID, with Nicholas Kristof 37:31

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Since Jan. 20, 84% of U.S. Agency for International Development grants and contracts have been terminated and 93% of agency staff have been fired. On July 1, the State Department absorbed the remaining staff and grants. On Lawfare Daily, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Krist…

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Microsoft Is Gutting the Video Game Industry | Tech Won't Save Us 55:09

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Paris Marx is joined by Nathan Grayson to discuss the latest round of Microsoft layoffs and how the company’s ambition to remake the video game industry around its streaming service has had significant consequences. Nathan Grayson is a co-founder of Aftermath and author of Stream Big: The Triumphs and Turmoils of Twitch and the Stars Behind the Scr…

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Rational Security: The “Altered State” Edition 1:18:05

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: “With Arms Wide Open.” After years of open skepticism toward Ukraine (and uncharacteristic deference to Russia), it seems President Trump may have turned a page. His rhetoric has grown c…

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Lawfare Daily: Reparations for Russia's Aggression Against Ukraine with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi and Patrick Pearsall 1:13:36

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Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko and Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sit down with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Executive Director of the Register of Damage for Ukraine at the Council of Europe and a former legal advisor of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and Patrick W. Pearsall, an international arbitration and disputes partner …

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Musk’s Third Party—Plus, the Birthright Citizenship Class Action | Start Making Sense 41:52

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There’s trouble in Trump world: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is launching a Third Party to challenge Trump’s Republicans in the midterms and maybe in 2028. Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, explains why Musk will fail. Also: Trump’s executive order abolishing birthright citizenship – guaranteed by the 14th Am…

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The History of America’s Entrepreneurial Work Ethic | American Prestige 58:26

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Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, rise ‘n grind, and find your calling as we welcome historian Erik Baker to the program to talk about his book Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. The group explores the Protestant work ethic and Jeffersonian yeoman farmer, influential figures like Henry Ford and Frederick W…

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How to Journal Using One Word (Best of) 17:31

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This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on April 6, 2021. If you want to incorporate journaling into your daily rhythm but don’t know where to begin, here's how to use just one word to get started. Listen in. Episode 49: Collaborate Episode 172: Make These Two Lists Now Managing Oneself by …

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Lawfare Daily: David Noll on Civil Contempt Against a Defiant Executive 1:11:00

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Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor and Research Director at Lawfare, sits down with David Noll, a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, to discuss his new Lawfare Research Report, “Civil Contempt Against a Defiant Executive.” They talk about the widespread assumption that the judiciary is powerless if the executive branch chooses to defy court order…

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The Roots of Trump’s Foreign Policy Instability | The Time of Monsters With Jeet Heer 41:35

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Donald Trump’s foreign policy has been as unstable as the man himself, shifting quickly from pushes for restraint to escalating wars in the Middle East. This volatility is a function not just of Trump’s personality but the contradictions and competing factions that are gathered under the term America First, as well as the continued power of the for…

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Greatest Hits Rerun: Emily Belle Freeman on Collaborative Faith: How to Come Together as Christians and Why It Matters (Ep 58) 43:23

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This episode first aired as Episode 58 and quickly became a listener favorite. Emily Belle Freeman’s conversation about faith, connection, and building community across different Christian backgrounds continues to resonate deeply, which is why we’re bringing it back as part of our Greatest Hits series. If you missed it the first time (or just need …

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 11 1:47:14

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In a live conversation on July 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. AFGE, which allows for the mass terminations of federal employees, what happened in the multiple hearings in the criminal and civil cases invol…

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Lawfare Archive: Julian Mortenson on 'The Executive Power' 50:40

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From April 12, 2019: Julian Mortenson, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is the author of a remarkable new article entitled "Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative," forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review and available on SSRN. Recently, Benjamin Wittes spoke with the professor about the article, which Mortenson h…

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Nadine on And So She Left podcast 57:23

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About Nadine: Nadine Kenney Johnstone is an award-winning author, podcast host, and writing coach. After fifteen years as a writing professor, she founded WriteWELL workshops and retreats for women writers. She interviews today’s top female authors on her podcast, Heart of the Story. Her infertility memoir, Of This Much I'm Sure, was named book of …

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Lawfare Archive: Juliette Kayyem on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Crisis Management 41:56

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From April 9, 2024: In the early morning on March 26, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed, resulting in the death of six of the eight individuals conducting maintenance on the bridge. The incident has disrupted commuter traffic and the transport of hazardous materials, and it has ha…

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Houthis Resume Red Sea Attacks, New IDF Strikes in Lebanon, Deadly Kenya Protests | American Prestige 48:33

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Remember that today is the last day to order our limited edition “Robo Washington Crossing the Delaware” poster! Paid subscribers get a 50% discount! AP’s retirement account is entirely tied to copper, so we’re not sure how long we have to do this. In this week’s news: Yemen’s Houthi/Ansar Allah fighters have resumed attacks on commercial ships in …

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Lawfare Daily: Bribery and the Second Trump Administration with John Keller 58:43

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John Keller, now a partner at Walden, Macht, Haran, & Williams, channeled his experience as the former chief of the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice to talk about bribery with James Pearce, Lawfare Legal Fellow. After explaining the basics of bribery law and whether a current or former president could face a bribery prosecution…

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Lawfare Daily, Bonus Edition: Unpacking the July 7 Hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia 39:02

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On July 8, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down for a bonus edition of Lawfare Live with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia's July 7 hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland. To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also s…

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Scaling Laws: Ethan Mollick: Navigating the Uncertainty of AI Development 1:06:21

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Ethan Mollick, Professor of Management and author of the “One Useful Thing” Substack, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, and Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at Minnesota Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to analyze the latest research in AI adoption,…

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How the US Weaponizes Technology in the Middle East | Tech Won't Save Us 53:32

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Paris Marx is joined by Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States uses its control of key technologies to shift global power dynamics, and how that specifically plays out in the Middle East. Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and author of the forthcoming book Extractive Capitalism. Advertising Inquiries: ht…

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Rational Security: The “Game Changers” Edition 1:15:30

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This week, Scott sat down with fellow Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Alan Rozenshtein to talk through the week’s big national security news, including: “One Bill to rule them all, One Bill to find them, One Bill to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.” Republicans in Congress narrowly enacted President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” l…

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Lawfare Daily: The Double Black Box: Ashley Deeks on National Security AI 55:44

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Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Ashley Deeks, the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, to discuss her new book, “The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability.” They talk about the core metaphor of th…

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Trump v. L.A.—Plus, Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ | Start Making Sense 45:46

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Trump’s ICE is attacking undocumented people in LA County because there are a lot of them -- maybe a million, out of a total of 3.3 million Latinos, and also because LA is one of the most Democratic counties in the country. And LA has a big and militant alliance of immigrants rights groups that are fighting Trump. Harold Meyerson will explain the d…

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The Human Cost of Economic Sanctions | American Prestige 51:22

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⁠Get your limited edition "Robo Washington" poster now⁠⁠! Economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) ⁠Mark Weisbrot⁠ joins the show to talk about economic sanctions and how they affect people’s lives. They discuss the effect of sanctions on migration flows, how the PR about them targeting governments and not civ…

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How to Find Relief from Information Overload (Best of) 23:13

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This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on August 22, 2023. If we're going to be on the internet, because we are, how can we stay sane and remain soul minimalists in the midst of the constant stream of information? That's today's question. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: "Ou…

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Lawfare Daily: Michael Feinberg on Leaving the FBI 53:22

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Until late May, Michael Feinberg was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent focused on China. All that changed one weekend, when the Deputy FBI Director found out that he was still friends with a former FBI official who had been fired years ago. In his first interview following his essay, “Goodbye to All That,” in Lawfare last week. Feinberg sat do…

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How Jeff Bezos Betrayed the Legacy of The Washington Post | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer 37:26

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Writing in The Nation, Pamela Alma Weymouth drew a contrast between Kay Graham, her late grandmother who was publisher of The Washington Post when it fought Richard Nixon’s administration on The Pentagon Papers and Watergate, with the current owner of the newspaper, Jeff Bezos. Unlike Graham, Bezos has been all too willing to bend the knee to a cor…

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Lawfare Daily: The Offensive Cyber Industry and U.S.-China Relations with Winnona Bernsen 40:19

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Winnona Bernsen, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and founder of DistrictCon, joins Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman to discuss her recently released report "Crash (Exploit) and Burn: Securing the Offensive Cyber Supply Chain to Counter China in Cyberspace." They discuss the offensive cyber industry…

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Greatest Hits Rerun: Finding Direction with Spencer Taggart: Getting God’s Answers to Your Questions (Ep 27) 53:05

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This episode originally aired as Episode 27, and it’s one of our all-time most-loved conversations. We’re bringing it back as part of our Greatest Hits series because Spencer’s insights on hearing God’s answers and finding direction are just as powerful today as they were then. Serial entrepreneur, family man and follower of God are a few ways Corr…

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 5 1:40:22

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In a live conversation on July 3, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss updates in the civil and criminal cases of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a D.C. district court judge's injunction against the Trump administration’s invasion proclamatio…

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Realistic Wellness for Busy Women (NKJ on The Branding Business School Podcast) 51:54

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206 On this encore episode, Nadine was a guest on The Branding Business School Podcast. Here's the description from the TBBS podcast page: This enlightening conversation with the extraordinary Nadine Kenney Johnstone, takes you on a journey through her life's narrative, from overcoming academic hurdles to flourishing as an award-winning author and …

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Lawfare Archive: Itsiq Benizri on the EU AI Act 43:54

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From February 16, 2024: The EU has finally agreed to its AI Act. Despite the political agreement reached in December 2023, some nations maintained some reservations about the text, making it uncertain whether there was a final agreement or not. They recently reached an agreement on the technical text, moving the process closer to a successful concl…

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DRC-Rwanda Peace Deal, PKK Disarmament, US Airstrikes in Somalia | American Prestige 42:26

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Our news roundups are sometimes big, but never beautiful. This week: the PKK to begin its disarmament in Turkey (1:17); Iran suspends its cooperation with the IAEA (4:30), but remains open to negotiations with the US (6:53); the debate continues on how far the war set back Iran’s nuclear program (9:18); in Gaza, a new ceasefire push (12:24) while j…

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Grief, Healing, and Sacred Medicine with Dingle Spence 57:44

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What if grief could be navigated not by numbing, but by awakening? In this episode, Dr. Dingle Spence—Jamaican physician, oncologist, and pioneer in palliative care—shares her journey into the world of plant-based medicine. She explores how grief often opens the door to transformation, and why psychedelics offer tools for living with sorrow while r…

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Lawfare Archive: Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda 49:42

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From November 7, 2023: You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is a national security issue, at least in the short term. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Rey…

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The Geopolitical Fight Against Huawei | Tech Won't Save Us 54:05

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Paris Marx is joined by Yangyang Cheng to discuss how Huawei became one of the most powerful companies in China and how current geopolitical narratives distract from the issues at the heart of surveillance capitalism in the US and China. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Advertising …

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Lawfare Daily: Teun Janssen on Ukraine and a Big Europe 51:41

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Teun Jansenn is a staff member at the European Parliament who works on issues of EU expansion and support for Ukraine. He joined Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about the prospects of Europe's stepping up for Ukraine as the United States backs away. He also talked about why EU enlargement is essential to getting EU governance under control …

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Lawfare Daily: Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration 43:10

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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviews Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College and Columbia University, to discuss the Trump administration's handling of the U.S. military. Cohn discusses the firings of senior military officials, military parades, and the use of the U.S. military at the U.S-…

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How Mamdani Won—Plus, Harvard v. Trump | Start Making Sense 45:07

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The surprise victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic mayor primary over a well-funded establishment candidate shows that progressive politics, when pursued with discipline, vision and vigor, can win broad support. Bhaskar Sukara, President of The Nation and author of The Socialist Manifesto, has our analysis. Al…

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The Continued Assault on Gaza and the West Bank | American Prestige 1:03:05

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Derek welcomes back to the show Dalia Hatuqa, a journalist specializing in Israeli/Palestinian affairs and regional Middle East issues, to talk about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. They recap what has been happening to Palestinians in Gaza while the world was distracted by Israel’s war with Iran, discuss the lost generations of Gazan chil…

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Is it Time to Quit My Job? (Best of) 16:16

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This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on April 13, 2021. When it comes to the decisions we make in our lifetime, questions about our job and vocation top the list as the ones that can cause the most decision fatigue. For 15 minutes, let’s consider the question beneath the question and see…

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Lawfare Daily: Prosecuting the Sahel's War Influencers with Lindsay Freeman 43:38

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On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Lindsay Freeman, Director of Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, to discuss her recent Lawfare article, “War Crimes for Fun and Profit.” They talk about how and why so-called war influencers linked to private military companies such …

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 27 1:51:09

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In a live conversation on June 27, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship case, the whistleblower complaint about Emil Bove’s actions as deputy attorne…

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325: Confidence, Body Image, and Doing It Scared with Sarah Nicole Landry aka The Birds Papaya 1:00:22

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Sarah Nicole Landry, aka The Birds Papaya, is a writer, speaker, podcast host, model, and digital creator who has built a powerful community around body confidence, self-acceptance, and living authentically. She shares unfiltered moments that help women feel seen in their changing bodies and everyday lives. In this episode, Corrine and Sarah talk a…

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Our Fifty States of Disunion and Who Could Secede | The Nation Podcast 28:56

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The term “the nation”—as it refers to the country—has a relatively recent history in American political rhetoric. Until the Civil War, politicians more commonly used “the Union” or “the Republic.” That changed with Abraham Lincoln, who referenced “the nation” five times in his 1863 Gettysburg Address. Two years later, in July 1865, the first issue …

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Lawfare Archive: Steve Vladeck on Emergency Powers and Coronavirus 54:35

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From March 19, 2020: What can the president do in a national emergency? What limits what the president can do? What authorizes the president to do all those things he can do in a national emergency? Is the president abusing, misusing, using appropriately, or under-using emergency powers during the coronavirus crisis? And what are the logical end po…

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The Never Trump Crowd Still Loves Mid-East Wars | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer 53:47

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Over the last decade, centrist Democrats have diligent courted Never Trump Republicans, hoping that this cohort could help create a new consensus politics to oppose the MAGA coalition. From the start, this strategy seemed flawed: after all, this faction is very small and also carries a lot of baggage. In particular, neo-conservatives such as Willia…

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Summer Roadtrip: Sabbatical Adventures #6 2:22

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205 Nadine is taking a semi-sabbatical this year to study, try new things, & travel, and she's sharing her adventures with you in a podcast series that will air monthly throughout the year. In this 6th episode, she shares the highlights, challenges, and takeaways from her June area of interest: roadtripping. Covered in this episode: Why she travele…