Brexit

Theresa May’s Brexit Strategy Suffers Last Minute Defeat

Prime Minister May’s decision to postpone a parliamentary vote spells further uncertainty for the global economy.

WhatCyntoiaBrown’s Case Reveals About Juvenile Justice in America

Cyntoia Brown was a 16-year-old trafficking victim when she shot and killed a man who solicited her for sex. She must serve 51 years in prison for her crime. Is that justice?

46 Cambodians are Set to be Deported from California. Will Governor Jerry Brown Intervene?

Cambodians have been deported under every administration since 2003, but there’s been an uptick under the Trump Administration.

Guests:

Gillian Tett

Andrew Marshall

Marsha Levick

Jeree Thomas

Anoop Prasad

Katya Cengel

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Few issues hit more of an emotional chord, or an emotional nerve than those around borders and belonging, immigration and identity. Bringing it home in this third of a three-episode series on these issues, host Mary Kay Magistad visits the lands of her ancestors — Ireland and Germany — and explores the ways in which they are wrestling with these issues — and have wrestled with them in the past.

Britain long ruled the waves, and many of its citizens have now voted for it to control its own borders, and make its own decisions, free of EU control. Is this about sovereignty, or identity, or something else entirely? It’s complicated, and often not in the ways you’d expect.

People have been moving around, and borders have been shifting around, for as long as there have been people. Who gets to say who belongs, and who doesn’t? Chandran Kukathas, who heads the London School of Economics’ department of government, argues that a free society should tolerate difference, and (relatively) open borders, and quit fearing Muslims as a group.

September 01, 2016:

1. For Some Immigrants, Nothing’s Changed After Trump’s Whirlwind Visit to Mexico (12 min)

2. Obamacare Exchanges Stumble (6 min)

3. An Army Veteran Defends Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest (7 min)

4. Post-Brexit, Hip-Hop Artist Akala Uses Music to Speak Truth to Power (8 min)

When big things happen, there’s nothing like sitting down with smart friends over a beer (or coffee, or whatever), and kicking around ideas about what it all means, and where it’s all going. In this episode, host Mary Kay Magistad checks in with old friends in Dublin, London and Berlin, to see how Brexit looks from where they sit, and how it might affect their lives.

June 24, 2016: 

1. Brexit: ‘An Unnecessary Act of Self-Harm’ (13 min)

2. Tie SCOTUS Ruling on Immigration Raises Questions on Executive Authority (6 min)

3. Films to Catch and Skip at the Box Office This Weekend (4 min)

4. Daniel Radcliffe Plays Dead Survival Tool in ‘Swiss Army Man’ (5 min)

5. America’s Student Debt Crisis: A Bubble About to Burst (7 min)

6. The Creative Process of DJ Shadow (10 min)