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We speak with longtime trade policy expert Lori Wallach about President Donald Trump’s move to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China — the three largest trading partners of the United States. It has sent global stocks tumbling and raised fears of more inflation. Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on most imports from Canada and Mexico and an additional 10% on goods from China, set to take effect Tuesday. Energy resources from Canada will carry a lower 10% tariff. Canada and Mexico have vowed to enforce retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., ... continua

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Paris, 1791. Marie Antoinette is held captive in the Tuileries. She begins a correspondence with Axel de Fersen, a young count she met nearly twenty years earlier at a ball. Their exchanges are cordial, political...and censored. Were they lovers? Were they plotting a royal rescue? The rumors are endless, but no one can say for sure. Until now. This fascinating documentary follows the team of chemists, cryptographers and historians who through amazing new scientific techniques and hours of careful study have finally managed to fully decipher the letters between the ... continua

Global condemnation is mounting after Israel bombed Qatar’s capital Doha, attempting to take out senior Hamas leaders who had gathered to consider a U.S. proposal for a Gaza ceasefire. Hamas leadership survived the strike, which killed six. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, who has reported extensively on Gaza ceasefire negotiations and is one of the few Western journalists to be in regular contact with senior members of Hamas. He reacts to Tuesday’s unprecedented strike.
“The very Palestinians who are trying to negotiate some form of ... continua

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"A conversation between writer John Banville and Valerie Miles"
As part of the “Writing the Prado/Escribir el Prado” project –the International Literary Residency sponsored by the Loewe Foundation at the Museo del Prado– this public event allows us to listen to the current resident writer in person. Following the stays of John Coetzee, Chloe Aridjis and Olga Tokarczuk, Irish writer John Banville is visiting us this autumn. He will discuss some of the intellectual commitments of his own work with Valerie Milles, editor of Granta in Spanish.
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La creación del dinero artificial, según la necesidad de las personas, como crear dinero.

President Donald Trump is pushing Republican senators to back his “big, beautiful bill,” which includes new funding to carry out his mass deportation agenda by hiring additional ICE officers and adding detention space. ICE has already signed new agreements with jails around the country for additional capacity, and confirmed nine deaths in custody since Trump took office. “It really feels like a paradigm-shifting moment,” says Detention Watch Network executive director Silky Shah. “People are being packed into overcrowded cells. People are not getting medical ... continua

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L'intrigo si sviluppa tra le mura di una prestigiosa università americana di medicina. Non tutti i suoi frequentatori sono, a quanto pare, irreprensibili; almeno uno ha la coscienza sporca, visto che uno dopo l'altro si succedono implacabilmente efferati delitti.

We speak with foreign policy analyst Matt Duss about increasingly fraught relations between the United States and Ukraine, which have undergone a seismic shift under the second Trump administration. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday and is expected to sign an agreement giving the U.S. access to his country’s rare earth minerals, which are key components in mobile phones and other advanced technology. It’s unclear what, if anything, Ukraine will get in return, even as Trump pushes Kyiv to reach a ... continua

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Texas. 1848. Le famiglie messicane vengono costrette ad abbandonare le loro terre dai sassoni che vengono a colonizzare questo stato spopolato. Due famiglie messicane, gli Iturralde e i Villareal, vedono la loro pacifica esistenza infranta quando si rifiutano di vendere i loro ranch ai Mackenzie, una famiglia irlandese che non si fermerà davanti a nulla per ottenere ciò che vogliono. E ciò che vogliono, si trova in profondità in questa terra estesa e fertile... il petrolio.

President Trump has given yet more power to Elon Musk, who is now leading the effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created in response to the 2008 financial crisis, the CFPB helps enforce consumer financial laws for mortgages, credit cards and other financial products. We speak to a former CFPB staffer, Julie Margetta Morgan, who says the consumer watchdog has helped recover $21 billion lost to financial fraud and abuse in its decade-plus of existence. She says that Musk, the world’s richest man and a promoter of cryptocurrency, is ... continua

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