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Critics -- including President Obama -- say short-term, high-interest loans are predatory,

trapping borrowers in a cycle of debt. But some economists see them as a useful financial

instrument for people who need them. As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau promotes new

regulation, we ask: who's right?

It facilitates crime, bribery, and tax evasion – and yet some governments (including ours) are printing more cash than ever. Other countries, meanwhile, are ditching cash entirely. And if Star Trek is right, we won’t have money of any sort in the 24th century.

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Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isnt lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you.

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A lot of full-time jobs in the modern economy simply don't pay a living wage. And even those

jobs may be obliterated by new technologies. What's to be done so that financially vulnerable

people aren't just crushed? It may finally be time for an idea that economists have promoted

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Could a lack of sleep help explain why some people get much sicker than others?

To you, it’s just a ride-sharing app that gets you where you’re going. But to an economist, Uber is a massive repository of moment-by-moment data that is helping answer some of the field’s most elusive questions.

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Augmented reality apps like Pokemon Go allow developers to overlay a story onto the real world. Game designer Kellian Adams Pletcher tells us how this technology is going to change the way we interact with our environment.

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Infidelity has kept Savage's marriage exciting and fun, and he's not afraid to talk about it. But there are things even the bluntest sex columnist feels uncomfortable discussing.


Occasional infidelity adds excitement to Dan Savage's marriage. He's not afraid of talking about that, he told me. What he doesn’t like discussing is money. Namely, how his husband Terry likes spending it: on shoes, clothes, and records he may never listen to. It’s what they fight about most.

Dan and Terry have been together for nearly twenty years. They married in 2005 in Canada. Dan told me that if you’re in a committed relationship, you should consider this: cheating happens. Studies differ on the rate of cheating, but after writing a sex advice column for decades, he wants us to confront the fact that infidelity touches more monogamous relationships than we like to admit. And sometimes, he says, being with other people is what keeps couples together. It's worked for his marriage.


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It’s an interview with the actor and comedian Aziz Ansari. We talked shortly after he published a book called Modern Romance and shortly before the release of his excellent Netflix series Master of None. In fact, as you’ll hear, the show didn’t even have a title yet. Hope you enjoy listening to Ansari as much as I enjoyed talking to him.

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Orange is the New Black's Diane Guerrero has been on her own since she was 14, when her parents were deported. What followed were years of financial and emotional struggle.


Diane Guerrero was just 14 years old when she came home to an empty apartment. Her parents had been taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and would soon be deported to their native Colombia. My family unit essentially died that day, she says.

Now 29, Diane has recurring roles two successful television shows. She plays inmate Maritza Ramos on Orange is the New Black and smart aleck Lina on Jane the Virgin. But this success is new to Diane. Most of her teens and twenties were spent working any job she could get her hands on, dodging loan collectors, and keeping her family drama a secret. You would never know that I was going through such sadness, she says, I made sure that nobody would find me out.

Keeping everything bottled up only worked for so long. In her junior year of college, she started to drink heavily and cut herself. I used that as a coping mechanism, Diane reflects, or a way to self-sabotage myself. As her life and relationships started to fall apart around her, Diane finally found a positive outlet in acting classes. And seeing a therapist didn't hurt.

Diane's own life is stable now, but her family is still in a precarious place. Her parents are still unable to enter the U.S., even as visitors. And they separated shortly after they were deported. Dealing with their split has been an ongoing element of Diane's emotional recovery. It definitely affected my relationships and how I dealt with people, she acknowledges, and what I considered to be love or forever.

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The video is a quick overview of the sections or Articles of the US Constitution. Students will learn about Article I and it's establishing the powers and structure of the US Legislative Branch known as Congress. Article II establishes and outlines the Executive Branch headed up by the President of the United States. Article III established the Judicial Branch headed by the US Supreme Court. Article IV discusses the relationship between the Federal Government and state governments known as federalism. Article V establishes how to create amendments to the Constitution. Article VI is known as the Supremacy Clause which establishes that federal law is more powerful than state law. Article VII outlines the way the US Constitution was ratified.

Mr. Raymond’s Civics E.O.C. Academy was designed for students taking the Florida Civics End-of-Course (EOC) Exam. However, as many states are implementing Civics Exams, these videos will work for all students of Civics, US Government, and US History. Currently students have to pass a civics state exam in order to graduate in Idaho, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arizona, North Dakota, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. These videos look at all of the civics benchmarks that will be tested on most state civics exams.

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Mr. Pahl talks to his Civics students at Bartlett High School about how our Constitution prevents Donald Trump or any person from becoming a dictator. The Constitution enshrines individual freedom, and popular sovreignty.

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Howard Schultz wasn't born into business. A Brooklyn boy whose father worked menial jobs to support the family, Schultz thought his way out would be through sport. That is, however, until he broke his jaw on the football field at 18 (an injury from which Schultz is still recovering). For the next three years, he made cold calls, a job he hated but which ultimately taught him about how to sell himself. He soon connected those selling chops with a small Seattle coffee roastery called Starbucks. He hoped to expand the chain to 100 stores; Starbucks now has 25,000 locations across the globe. Howard Schultz—who has been at the helm as CEO for most of the company's history—tells host Alec Baldwin that at the core of that success is a desire to build the kind of socially enlightened, employee-focused business that his father was never able to work for.

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Lawrence Wright on Religion, ISIS, and Scientology\


Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Most recently, filmmaker Alex Gibney directed an HBO documentary based on Wright's reporting in Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Unbelief.

Much of Wright's work is about how religious belief animates personal action and political conflict. He has documented the Jonestown massacre, explored allegations of Satan worship, profiled brimstone-tinged gospel preachers, and, of course, tracked the histories of al-Qaeda and the Church of Scientology.

Regarding the latter, he isn't necessarily sympathetic to the Church's claims, but he understands its appeal. People don't go into it because it's a cult, they go into it because they're looking for something, says Wright. It's like going into therapy; people do benefit from it.

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The Internet might have killed the music industry, and that quaint little neighborhood bookstore. But writer Michael Wolff says television is safe, at least for now.The Internet might have killed the music industry, and that quaint little neighborhood bookstore. But writer Michael Wolff says television is safe, at least for now.

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In which Craig Benzine teaches you about the US Governments Separation of powers and the system of checks and balances. In theory, the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Brach are designed to keep each other in check, and to keep any branch from becoming too powerful. In reality, the system was designed to keep the president from becoming some kind of autocrat. For the most part, it has worked. Craig will call in the clones to explain which powers belong to which branches, and to reveal some secret perks that the Supreme Court justices enjoy.

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Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In truth, Eric Nelson argues in THE ROYALIST REVOLUTION, the founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. That same position drove the granting of far more power to the US president than any British monarch had wielded for almost 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy; on the other, monarchy without kings.

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our psychological immune system lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned.

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Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, likes to say that most Americans are libertarians but don’t know it yet. So why can’t Libertarians (and other third parties) gain more political traction?

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The minority party has more power than one might think. Here are four crucial checks and balances Democrats have in their pocket.

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IN 2017, WE’LL HAVE A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, HOUSE, AND SENATE

A COMPLETE REVERSAL FROM ‘08, WHEN DEMOCRATS RAN D.C.

SO...WHAT CHECKS AND BALANCES EXIST FOR THE MINORITY PARTY?

1. THE FILIBUSTER
SENATORS ENDLESSLY SPEAK TO DELAY OR PREVENT A VOTE

2. THE “POWER OF THE PURSE”
THE PRESIDENT CAN GIVE EXECUTIVE ORDERS

BUT CONGRESS CONTROLS THE MONEY

(EXAMPLE: TRUMP ORDERS “BUILD THE WALL”, CONGRESS VOTES TO DEFUND IT)

3. THE CONSTITUTION
EXECUTIVE ORDERS, LAWS, AND BILLS CAN BE CHALLENGED IN COURT

4. CHECKS & BALANCES DOWN THE LINE
SEPARATION OF POWERS EXTENDS TO FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

EXAMPLE: STATES LIKE CA HAVE DECLARED THEY’LL BE “SANCTUARY STATES” AND PROTECT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM MASS DEPORTATION ORDERS

SIMILARLY, THERE’S ADMINISTRATIVE SEPARATION OF POWERS

THE PRESIDENT AND HIS APPOINTEES HAVE TO WORK WITH
THOUSANDS OF PROFESSIONAL, POLITICALLY-INSULATED OFFICIALS WHO ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED, AND PROFESSIONALLY MOTIVATED, TO CHALLENGE POLICIES THEY FIND UNREASONABLE, UNLAWFUL, OR UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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With the Republican and Democratic candidates standing to win people’s votes for November’s elections in the US, the Green Party has warned of “election fraud” in the country, which it says includes unfair ballot access laws to prevent independent candidates from taking part in the election process. Scott McLarty, the Green Party’s media coordinator, has said that the “democratic nomination process was rigged.” Is this the best US democracy can do in 2016? For Jill Stein & Gary Johnson, the respective 3rd party candidates, & their supporters, the 2-party dictatorship is unfair. Add to that the support corporate America bestows upon both parties. That & more in this debate.

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Sam Harris speaks with Shadi Hamid about the power of religious belief, the failure of the Left, Islamist democracy, free speech, profiling, white nationalism, Obama’s foreign policy and other topics.

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We sometimes say the president is the most powerful man in the world, but this isn't really the case. The president of the United States of America must work within a system of checks and balances that is intentionally inefficient and forces compromise so that no one person can take too much power. George Edwards, professor of political science, explains the limits of the president's power. A president's promises on the campaign trail often get deflated after they get into office because they have to contend with congress. Party politics often makes it difficult or impossible to compromise, as senator Lindsey Graham found out the hard way when he got trampled by an elephant.

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Two nights ago, during the final presidential debate, the subject of the economy was covered. Since both candidates are interventionists, the prospects for the U.S. economy don't look good no matter who happens to win. Ron Paul debunks the latest debate myths on today's edition of Myth-Busters.

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In which John examines the complex and tangled question of the gender wage gap, and looks at some of the reasons why women who work full time are paid less than men who work full time.

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This is an excellent overview of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution. All credit goes to the chaps that produced this simple yet outstanding summation in a presentation that all can follow.
Past Australian Prime Ministers and Governments have stopped the teaching in schools of the Constitution and thus have denied all of their right to correct government when they er in law.
It is to be remembered that this Constitution is current law in the UK and as such can only be altered and or repealed by the pommy government. This can be noted by the first 8 sections of the constitution whereby the poms remind us is section 8:
After the passing of this Act the Colonial Boundaries Act, 1893, shall not apply to any colony which becomes a State of the Commonwealth; but the Commonwealth shall be taken to be a self-governing colony for the purposes of that Act.

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