Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
It’s Friday and a ridiculously busy news day. South Florida is still reeling from yesterday’s collapse of a high rise apartment building on Miami Beach. 159 people are missing and prospects for finding anyone alive in the rubble are almost non-existent. Derek Chauvin was sentenced for the murder of George Floyd. The Supreme Court announced…
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It’s a busy Thursday. As usual, Howie Klein is here, and we’ll discuss the developments today on an infrastructure deal, the House Judiciary Committee mark ups on the anti-trust package of bills, congressional candidate bingo and more. But we’ll start the show with Manuel Oliver. His son Joaquin was killed in Feb 2018 during the…
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The Supreme Court handed down four decisions today as they soldier on to the end of the term next week. (There are still 8 cases to opine on. The next announcements will come Friday.) Last week we got the good news that, for the third time, the Supreme Court did not overturn the ACA. That…
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Sorry for the cynicism in the title of today’s show, but fuck Sinema and Manchin, as they are killing us. It’s Tuesday, so Laffy is here, and we’ve got a lot of news to cover today. Most notably, today the Senate will vote to open debate on the For the People Act which will be…
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My guest today is George Packer – journalist, novelist, author, playwright. He writes regularly for The Atlantic, and just published a new book, “Last Best Hope: America In Crisis and Renewal”. In it, he suggests we are in a state of a cold civil war between four factions who share virtually no overlap: Free America,…
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