The government shutdown continues, leaving thousands without necessary government services and as many as one million government employees furloughed. Also, an interview with the Prison Yoga Project of New York.
The NSA is making sophisticated graphs of your social interactions, and dating a feminist: is it necessary for a good relationship?
Ayesha Siddiqi on the Kimmel and Kanye controversy, and some non-spoiler-y thoughts on the end of Breaking Bad about masculinity, late capitalism, and the suburbs.
Welcome to Radio Dispatch Live! On tonight’s show, Alexis Goldstein and Mike Konczal join us to discuss who’s got all our money and why they won’t give it back, the state of financial reform, and what will happen if Ted Cruz shuts down the government. …
An NPR producer is detained while crossing the border from Canada to the US, a terrorism case in New York fails in its entrapment appeal, and listener mail about beans.
Al Shabaab forces kill nearly 70 people in a mall in Nairobi, the New York Times discovered Bill de Blasio used to be against apartheid, and a bunch of listener mail.
Re-thinking the working and playing relationships between adults and kids, watching two film strips from decades ago, and listener mail on Breaking Bad.
Starbucks requests that customers not bring guns into the coffee shop, Tom Friedman sees someone with pink hair and writes some words about it, and listener mail on Breaking Bad.
The second anniversary of Occupy, a new report details the FBI’s increased domestic surveillance following 9/11, and listener mail.
The US government continues to hold around 60 detainees at the prison at Bagram in Afghanistan, and some pushback listener mail.
Alex Abdo of the ACLU on the most recent NSA disclosures, Molly’s piece in Rolling Stone about the criminalization of students, and Putin is in the NYT op-ed pages.
Bill de Blasio comes in first in the New York City Democratic primary, President Obama’s speech on Syria, and we want to come speak at your college.
Rania Khalek on the non-violent elements that make up resistance in Syria, George Zimmerman’s soon-to-be-ex-wife calls 911 on him, and catching up on listener mail.