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Essay und DiskursDer neue Reaktionär - Curtis Yarvin und die Versuchung der smarten TyranneiCurtis Yarvin träumt vom Ende der Demokratie und einem amerikanischen Autokraten. Seine autoritären Ideen treffen den Nerv einer erschöpften Zeit und begeistern rechte Eliten wie Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel oder US-Vizepräsident J.D. Vance. Von Ava Kofman www.deutschlandfunk.de, Essay und Diskurs
2025-09-2829 min
The Sunday Long Read Podcast“Proximity is power” : Max Blau on mixing investigative and feature writing (Live at UGA)Sunday Long Read co-founder Jacob Feldman talks with ProPublica’s Max Blau in a wide-ranging conversation about his piece “I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network, the art of combining investigative and feature reporting and what it was like to see his story adapted for a stage performance. This episode was recorded in July live at the University of Georgia, in partnership with the school’s Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction.
This episode was hosted by Jacob Feldman and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. The Sunday Long Read Pod...
2025-09-261h 10
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “How Many Constitutional Crises Can We Fit Into One Episode?” EditionThis week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Chris Mirasola, to focus on the week’s big domestic news, including:“Drama Majors, Meet Major Drama.” In the glittering city of Los Angeles, the Trump administration has taken the dramatic step of calling up the California National Guard and deploying them alongside active duty Marines to secure federal personnel and facilities, specifically against protestors demonstrating against the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies. Is this the beginning of a broader threat to the constitutional order, as some of Trump’s critics sa...
2025-06-111h 17
The Lawfare PodcastRational Security: The “How Many Constitutional Crises Can We Fit Into One Episode?” EditionThis week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Chris Mirasola, to focus on the week’s big domestic news, including:“Drama Majors, Meet Major Drama.” In the glittering city of Los Angeles, the Trump administration has taken the dramatic step of calling up the California National Guard and deploying them alongside active duty Marines to secure federal personnel and facilities, specifically against protestors demonstrating against the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies. Is this the beginning of a broader threat to the constitutional order, as some of Trump’s critics sa...
2025-06-111h 17
Rational SecurityThe “How Many Constitutional Crises Can We Fit Into One Episode?” EditionThis week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Chris Mirasola, to focus on the week’s big domestic news, including:“Drama Majors, Meet Major Drama.” In the glittering city of Los Angeles, the Trump administration has taken the dramatic step of calling up the California National Guard and deploying them alongside active duty Marines to secure federal personnel and facilities, specifically against protestors demonstrating against the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies. Is this the beginning of a broader threat to the constitutional order, as some of Trump’s critics sa...
2025-06-111h 17
The Political Scene | The New YorkerThe Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be KingThe New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her recent Profile of the iconoclastic right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin. They discuss Yarvin’s desire to end American democracy by installing a monarch, whether his provocations can be seen as trolling, and how his writings have found a receptive audience among conservative politicians and the tech élite. “Obviously, Yarvin’s influence on the right is great, and maybe can’t be overstated,” Kofman says. “But, at the same time, a lot of these ideas he’s getting from having conversations with powerful people in Silicon Valley and with powerful p...
2025-06-0538 min
Respecting ReligionThe Supreme Court is back … and so are weTo kick off season 6 of Respecting Religion, Amanda Tyler and Holly Hollman take stock of the Supreme Court. There is no religion case on the docket – yet – for this term, but there are several cases that do impact religion. They review the most important things we saw out of last year's term – from the "Trump docket" to the abortion cases – and they talk about how the Rahimi decision about a gun regulation illustrates the trouble with the Court's new "history and tradition" test. Plus, this is the last episode before the release of Amanda's book How to End Christian National...
2024-10-1742 min
Apple News TodayWhy presidential candidates are all over your podcast feedsUSA Today has live updates on how Florida is starting to pick up the pieces after Hurricane Milton. And USA Today explores the phenomenon that largely spared Tampa Bay from a feared catastrophic storm surge.
Journalist Paola Ramos joins Apple News In Conversation to explain the recent shift to the right among Latino voters.
ProPublica’s Ava Kofman investigates the pair of billionaire preachers who built the most powerful political machine in Texas.
The BBC is following the Israeli airstrikes that hit two residential buildings in Lebanon Thursday night. The strikes are being call...
2024-10-1113 min
The Daily Beast PodcastMelania Trump: ‘What Does My Body My Choice Really Mean?’The New Abnormal hosts flame Melania Trump over her defense of abortion. Plus! ProPublica investigative reporter Ava Kofman and Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) in Washington, D.C., take listeners on an in-depth look at the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States and its effect on the right-wing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-10-0629 min
James and Ashley Stay at HomeBooks galore: the best book recommendations of 2023Our most popular episode of the year is back! James has gathered the best 'What Are You Reading?' segments from 2023 into a comprehensive summary of book recommendations from our guests. We discuss a huge variety of books, including thriller, mystery, memoir, rom com, literature, essays, poetry, nonfiction, plays and audiobooks. We also delve into reading habits. Do you read several books at a time, or restrict yourself to one? Do you finish most books you pick up, or allow yourself to quit? And so much more. This episode features Hilton Koppe, Sanchana Venkatesh, Lee...
2023-12-121h 22
Hear Me Now PodcastCan hospice be saved?An online transcript is available��At the end of last year, The New Yorker and ProPublica documented fraud and mistreatment in some for-profit hospices across the country. The expos�� shouted something that has been whispered for a long while in circles concerned with the care of the dying: hospice needs saving.Begun as a visionary mission run by charities, hospice care has morphed into a 22 billion dollar industry where margin trumps mission. On today's program, host Se��n Collins discusses the state of hospice, its future, and ways to preserve quality of care when caring...
2023-08-2448 min
Tech Won't Save UsHow Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself w/ Moira WeigelParis Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss the third-party sellers who supply many of the goods sold through Amazon, how the company’s policy decisions reshape small businesses to act like mini-Amazons, and what that means for regulatory responses.Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic Magazine. Her most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff. Follow Moira on Twitter at...
2023-04-061h 08
GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine PodcastIs Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph ShegaIn November of 2022, Ava Kofman published a piece in the New Yorker titled "How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle." Some viewed this piece as an affront to the amazing work hospice does for those approaching the end of their lives by cherry picking stories of a few bad actors to paint hospice is a bad light. For others, this piece, while painful to read, gave voice to what they have been feeling over the last decade - hospice has in some ways lost its way in a quest of promoting profit over care. On today's podcast, live f...
2023-03-2451 min
What Next | Daily News and AnalysisHospice for ProfitSince the 1980s, hospice has been covered by Medicare, and it’s come to be an expected part of the healthcare that millions of Americans receive at the end of their lives. But beneath the pamphlets of patients living out their days in comfort lies an uglier reality: a cottage industry that frequently misappropriates taxpayer dollars in the name of profit.Guest: Ava Kofman, investigative reporter for ProPublica.If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on an...
2023-01-1732 min
TCN TalksAmericans’ Views on the US Healthcare System, Aging and End of Life CareIn this podcast, our first of 2023, Chris interviews Tom Koutsoumpas, President and CEO of Capital Caring Health & CEO of the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI) and Carole Fisher, President of the NPHI. Recently, ProPublica and The New Yorker published an article by Ava Kofman titled, “How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle.” This article put hospice in the news quite a bit toward the end of 2022 and unfortunately it did not differentiate the very real variances between for-profit hospices, which are the hospices the article was highlighting, and nonprofit community-based mission focused hospices like N...
2023-01-1227 min
What the Health? From KFF Health NewsMedicaid MachinationsThe lame-duck Congress has returned to Washington with a long health care to-do list and only a little time.Meanwhile, some of the states that have not yet expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act are rethinking those decisions.Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more.Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Fred Clasen-Kelly, who reported and wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature, about a mysterio...
2022-12-0143 min
This Is Hell!Toxic air and America's sacrifice zones / Ava KofmanJournalist Ava Kofman on the ProPublica report "Poison in the Air," co-written with Lylla Younes, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, with additional reporting by Maya Miller and photography by Kathleen Flynn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air
2021-12-071h 17This Is Hell!Toxic air and America's sacrifice zones / Ava KofmanJournalist Ava Kofman on the ProPublica report "Poison in the Air," co-written with Lylla Younes, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, with additional reporting by Maya Miller and photography by Kathleen Flynn.
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air
2021-12-071h 17
Medic2Medic PodcastMichael DiazEpisode 236 is Michael Diaz. Michael is an EMT for AMR in Los Angles County and was featured in an article titled "The Broken Front Line", by Ava Kofman from ProPublica.The article takes us inside the ambulance during the height of the pandemic and Michael shares his experiences. Michael was in film school before discovering EMS. He is a Lead Training Officer and union president of IAEP R12-077. We discuss his path into EMS, this first encounter with a Covid patient, the article, and being president of the union during the pandemic.
2021-06-1929 minTech Won't Save UsThe Frictionless World of Silicon Valley w/ Anna WienerParis Marx is joined by Anna Wiener to discuss her journey into the tech industry, how Silicon Valley’s desire for a “frictionless” world is affecting culture, and why it’s important to analyze Substack’s claims about the future of journalism.Anna Wiener is the author of “Uncanny Valley” (available in paperback on Bookshop) and a contributing writer at the New Yorker. Follow Anna on Twitter as @annawiener.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better wor...
2021-01-0750 min
LibriVox 5th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3 by VARIAva Kofman, from The Intercept, on LinkNYC kiosks from Nov 5, 2018Mark interviews Ava Kofman, journalist at The Intercept, on LinkNYC kiosks.
Tomaš Dvo?ák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack
- "Mark's intro"
- "Interview with Ava Kofman from The Intercept"
- "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368"
The Pink Tiles - "Internet" - #1 Fan (LP)
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/82248
2018-11-061h 05