We begin with a bribery for pardons scandal that has emerged from court documents just as Trump is musing about preemptively pardoning himself and his children and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Jennifer Taub, an expert on white-collar crime who is a professor of law at Western New England University Law School and is the author of Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime, joins us. We speculate who might be named in the heavily-redacted court documents with so many possibilities in this corrupt White House run by a bunch of grifters overseeing an administration Trump has filled with grifters in an open season of trading public office for personal gain.
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What Are We Cheering For?
Every holiday, every weekend, every so-called American ritual came with a side of football. The game would be on, and we were supposed to care. I didn’t. Not really. Not until I almost did. For a brief stretch, when my dad worked with the Clippers during the Lob City era, I started to believe. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan — it felt like swagger, like culture, like something to belong to. Then the trades came, the team got gutted, and the curtain dropped. It wasn’t family. It wasn’t culture. It was business. That moment stuck. The more I watched, the more the wires showed: how ritual gets packaged, sold, and weaponized. How meaning becomes merchandise. How attention becomes empire.
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When AI Replaced Our Comics
When AI replaced hand-drawn comics in our newsroom, I saw more than ugly art — I saw the erosion of what makes journalism worth doing.
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Farewell to Sister Assumpta Oturu, Champion of African Voices
Celebrating the life and legacy of Sister Assumpta Oturu, who amplified African stories and built bridges across continents through decades of fearless broadcasting.
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Cary Harrison Explains The Truth Behind The Mar-a-Lago Raid
What would George Washington say? Secretly flying 35 filing cabinet drawers-worth of Pentagon secrets to your private hotel for favor-swaps was the straw to make all Presidents now raidable. Will this affect a future Trump 2024 run? What about Hunter and Hillary?
