Sign up
An external list from lists.opml.org.
https://lists.opml.org/daveblogroll.xml

Embed this list

Copy this code and paste it into your website’s HTML to show this list there.

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

Looted treasure and offshore accounts

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/looted-treasure-and-offshore-accounts/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

Cambodia wants its religious artifacts returned. Dozens tied to an indicted collector remain in prominent museums. The Pandora Papers expose his reliance on offshore secrecy. Plus, U.S. lawmakers respond to revelations in the Pandora Papers.

Read more:

Cambodia wants its religious artifacts returned. Dozens tied to an indicted collector remain in the Met and other prominent museums. The Pandora Papers expose his reliance on offshore secrecy, as Peter Whoriskey reports. 

Although it’s only been a few days since the Pandora Papers published, there has already been a wave of reaction around the world, including in the United States. Will Fitzgibbon, a senior reporter with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, reports that lawmakers are calling for a crackdown on financial “enablers.”

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

The State of the Pandemic

The coronavirus seems to be in retreat in the United States, with the number of cases across the country down about 25 percent compared with a couple of weeks ago. Hospitalizations and deaths are also falling. So, what stage are we in with the pandemic? And how will developm...

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

Putin, a shop cleaner and a Monte Carlo mystery

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/putin-a-shop-cleaner-and-a-monte-carlo-mystery/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

Secret money, swanky real estate and a Monte Carlo mystery: Pandora Papers documents tie a woman allegedly in a secret, years-long relationship with Putin to a luxury Monaco apartment.  Read more:  There’s little about the humble background of Svetlana Krivonogik...

Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio

Olympia Yarger: Entrepreneur and Maggot Evangelist

Olympia Yarger filled a knowledge gap in my brain: the beauty of maggots. I never fully appreciated maggots, particularly of the black soldier fly, until I interviewed her. We also chatted about her husband's military career and the challenges of being a military family with a touching story about one of their family dogs.

Olympia is helping reshape waste management as the founder and current CEO of Goterra, located in Australia. Her drive towards more efficient farming and reducing food waste has led to a new kind of insect farming using autonomous robotics.

She is a determined, resilient, and larvae-loving-leader in the fight to develop a circular relationship between nature, technology, and food consumption. Something new this week on Remarkable People podcast!

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

The Facebook Whistle-Blower Testifies

The Senate testimony of Frances Haugen on Tuesday was an eagerly awaited event. Last month, Ms. Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, leaked internal company documents to The Wall Street Journal that exposed the social media giant’s inner workings. How will Ms. Haugen’s...

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

King Abdullah’s secret splurges

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/king-abdullahs-secret-splurges/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

While billions of dollars in American aid poured into Jordan over the past decade, a secret stream of money was flowing in the opposite direction as the country’s ruler, King Abdullah II, spent millions on extravagant homes in the United States. Read more:  In the pas...

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

The Most Important Supreme Court Term in Decades

The latest term of the U.S. Supreme Court will include blockbuster cases on two of the most contentious topics in American life: abortion and gun rights. The cases come at a time when the court has a majority of Republican appointees and as it battles accusations of politici...

That Trippi Show
Audio

Ralph Neas on Advocating for Civil Rights

blueduck.media/

Ralph Neas, prominent civil rights leader, joins Joe and Alex this week to discuss the power of coalition and strength in united numbers, specifically in human, constitutional, and civil rights. Ralph shares his insight on how the GOP could "turn back the clock" many de...

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

A tax haven in America’s heartland

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/a-tax-haven-in-americas-heartland/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

The United States has long condemned secretive offshore tax havens where the rich and powerful hide their money. But a burgeoning American trust industry now shelters the assets of wealthy foreigners by promising even greater secrecy and protection. That same secrecy has ins...

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

What’s Behind the Ivermectin Frenzy?

Ivermectin is a drug that emerged in the 1970s, used mainly for deworming horses and other livestock. But during the pandemic, it has been falsely lauded in some corners as a kind of miracle cure for the coronavirus. What is fueling the demand for a drug that the medical est...

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

The Sunday Read: ‘I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane?’

Jon Mooallem, the author of today’s Sunday Read, had a bad pandemic. “I began having my own personal hard time,” he writes. “The details aren’t important. Let’s just say, I felt as if I were moldering in place.” Then, The New York Times Magazine offered him the opportunity t...

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

The anti-vax wellness influencers

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/the-antivax-wellness-influencers/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

How wellness influencers are fueling the anti-vaccine movement. 

Read more:

For many people, the term “misinformation” conjures up images of conspiracy-theorist chat rooms and Russian bots. But as Ashley Fetters Maloy reports, an alarming amount of misinformation about the coronavirus is coming from wellness influencers. 

Today on Post Reports, the social media influencers questioning the wisdom of vaccination –– and how their messaging is increasing the threat of the virus mutating and keeping the pandemic raging.

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

‘They Don’t Understand That We’re Real People’

This episode contains strong language. A month ago, Texas adopted a divisive law which effectively banned abortions in the state. Despite a number of legal challenges, the law has survived and is having an impact across state lines.  Trust Women is abortion clinic in Ok...

That Trippi Show
Audio

Matthew Dowd with Big News: Lt. Gov. Run, Future of Democracy in Texas

blueduck.media/

On this week's episode of That Trippi Show, we make history. Our first repeat guest has big news: he's running for Lt. Governor in Texas! Matthew Dowd -- a former Republican, by the way -- has big plans to change the course of Texas' legislative powers. Democracy is the only way to stop the autocratic GOP, and the Democratic party is the vehicle we need to use to achieve it.
Support Matthew's run here: https://www.dowdtexas.com/
Follow him on Twitter here https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd?s=20Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy



Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

On the death of species

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/on-the-death-of-species/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed taking 23 animals and plants off the endangered-species list — because none can be found in the wild. What this tells us about climate change, and things to come. Read more: The ivory-billed woodpecker is officially extin...

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

The Democrats Who Might Block Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

The first year of a Congress is usually the best time for a president to put forward any sort of ambitious policy. For President Biden, whose control of Congress is fragile, the urgency is particularly intense. But now members of his own party are threatening to block one bi...

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

Can military leaders answer for Afghanistan?

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/can-military-leaders-answer-for-afghanistan/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

This week in Congress, top military officials are testifying on what went wrong in the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Will anyone in the government be held accountable? 


Read more:


Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie are on Capitol Hill testifying in front of the Senate and House Armed Services committees on the fall of Kabul and the disastrous U.S. exit from Afghanistan. 


As lawmakers press for answers, Alex Horton reports on whether this hearing will result in accountability for the years of government missteps in handling the end of America’s longest war.


Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio

Chris Messina: Tech Pioneer and Inventor of the Hashtag

Tech and innovation lovers - this one's for you! Listen in as Guy Kawasaki interviews Chris Messina, inventor of the hashtag and star of The Social Dilemma, about being the number one Hunter on Product Hunt and how he feels about open source technology. So many interesting nuggets!

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
Audio • The New York Times

Controlling Britney Spears

Britney Spears is one of the biggest celebrities on the planet — she makes millions of dollars performing, selling perfumes and appearing on television. At the same time, however, her life is heavily controlled by a conservatorship, which she has been living under for 13 yea...

Post Reports
Audio • The Washington Post

Sex-trafficked — and jailed

washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/sextrafficked--and-jailed/?tid=aud_rsslink&utm_source=podcasts&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=post-reports

For years, allegations that R. Kelly was abusing young women and girls swirled. This week, the singer was found guilty of sex trafficking in federal court. But not all child sex-trafficking victims get justice — instead, many of them are arrested. Read more: Jessica Contre...