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Mehrsa Baradaran’s book recommendations from the Ezra Klein Show

On his episode of The Ezra Klein Show, Ta-Nehisi Coates said that in order to convince him that white supremacy was over in America, we’d have to fix the 20-to-1 racial wealth gap. That disparity in wealth between black and white Americans is the subject of the third episode of Vox’s new Netflix show, Explained….

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Opinion | How Dostoyevsky Predicted the ‘True Crime’ Craze

Like many of today’s true crime authors, filmmakers and podcast hosts, Dostoyevsky wrote about crime (in both his fiction and journalism) as a way to uncover the lapses and deficiencies, as he perceived them, in the legal code. Unlike contemporary consumers of true crime, who find themselves in the middle of a larger national conversation…

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PODCAST #104: Baseball on the Bubble – Black and Gold Banneret (blog)

Black and Gold Banneret (blog) PODCAST #104: Baseball on the BubbleBlack and Gold Banneret (blog)On this edition of the Black & Gold Banneret Podcast, Jeff, Eric and Brian recap UCF Baseball’s 0-2 performance in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, and share why they think UCF’s chances of getting into the NCAA Tournament are better than ……

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The 4 best new movie podcasts to listen to right now

Few discussion topics lend themselves as well to the podcast format as movies. The inherent, closed-off nature of movies — you spend two hours or so in the dark and get told a hopefully complete story — means that a podcast discussing them can pretty readily switch topics from week to week while still staying…

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WDIV podcast, ‘Shattered,’ investigates Skelton brothers’ 2010…

“Shattered,” a podcast from WDIV-TV and Graham Media Group, investigates the shocking 2010 disappearance of the Skelton brothers from their home in Morenci, Michigan. John Skelton, the boys’ father, claims he gave the boys away to a shadowy underground group. Police believe a far darker version of events, and John Skelton remains locked up in a…

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UNC Football Recruiting Podcast: Don Heads to Baltimore

Inside Carolina’s recruiting coverage is on the road this weekend. Don Callahan is in Baltimore, Md., for this weekend’s Under Armour Camp, which will have a good number of UNC targets for both the 2019 & 2020 classes. While the weather may not cooperate, Callahan will be getting as much video footage as possible…

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Alia Shawkat on Queery

The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast…

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Podcast recommendations: 11 of the best episodes to make you smarter

If last Saturday was for the royal wedding, this Saturday (and the two days that follow) are for travel, sun, and barbecues — part of the admittedly non-intuitive way Americans remember fallen soldiers. Memorial Day is upon us, and with it, the annual tradition for many of playing catch-up at home or traveling elsewhere to…

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PODCAST: Can bears and people coexist peacefully? (Ep. 30)

Listen to the episode in the player below, or through Apple podcasts or Google Play. Orlando Sentinel Conversations Episode 30: Orlando Sentinel reporter Steve Hudak talks with Mike Orlando from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission about efforts to ensure people and bears coexist peacefully. They discuss bears in SUVs, bluff charges, the impact of…

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Westworld 2: Ranking the Best and Worst Characters, Halfway Through

After five new episodes of “Westworld,” here’s where the core characters stand, how they’ve changed, and even more in the Very Good Television Podcast. [Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 2 through Episode 5, “Akane No Mai.”] The maze is no more, but “Westworld” viewers are halfway through the new game…

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