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About Sparta

Beyond The Big 10

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Michigan State basketball fan or just love college hoops? About Sparta is the podcast for you. Tune in as the hosts, Travis Walton and Raymar Morgan will discuss what's happening on campus and the world of Michigan State Basketball.
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Cost of Glory

Alex Petkas

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The most influential biographies ever written, admired by leaders, creators, soldiers, and thinkers for nearly 2,000 years: Plutarch’s Parallel lives. Essential listening for anyone striving after greatness. Alex Petkas, former professor of ancient philosophy and history, revives and dramatically retells these unforgettable stories for modern audiences. The subjects are statesmen, generals, orators, and founders; pious and profane, stoics and hedonists. The stakes bear on the future of Weste ...
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Spirit Sherpa

Kelle Sparta

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UPDATE! We were just listed as #3 on Feedspot's lists of top Metaphysical and Shamanic podcasts. Angels, crystals, and tarot cards, Oh My! Sit with transformational shaman and spiritual coach, Kelle Sparta, as she shares her 50 years of experience in the spiritual world. Each podcast is the equivalent of a 2-hour class, so come prepared to take a lot of notes. Our listeners have said that they sometimes have to listen 2 or 3 times to get all the juicy goodness out of the episodes. If you're ...
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Embark on an epic journey through ancient Greece with history enthusiast Scott Emmons as your guide. From the Mycenaean warrior kings to the flowering of the Greek city-state, from the astonishing victories over the Persian invaders to the catastrophic power struggle between Athens and Sparta, each episode brings the past to life with vivid detail and compelling narrative. Along the way, there will be side trips to explore fascinating aspects of Greek culture, from art and literature to ever ...
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Spirit Guides

Kelle Sparta

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Spirit Guides is a transformative podcast dedicated to guiding business owners and executives through the nuances of spiritual and personal growth. It aims to serve as a vital resource for those looking to deepen their understanding of spirituality beyond traditional frameworks and integrate it into various aspects of daily life.
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Presenting a chronological history of the ancient Spartan peoples. Beginning with their earliest mentions in the epics of Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, right through to the collapse of Spartan dominance in the 4th century BCE.
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HITM uses character focused storytelling to convey the ideas of the past that have shaped us today. We dive into wars and politics to see how the values of nations and their populations have reacted to the world around them. This is social evolution and biography wrapped in storytelling. This is History in the Making. HITM is currently in Season 1. Season 1 covers much of the classical age of Greece including the “invention” of democracy, the Persian Wars, politics of Pericles and Themistocl ...
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the events since the 2016 election taught us anything, it's that tuning out is not an option. Legal journalists Liz Dye and Andrew Torrez break down the week's most important courtroom stories, so you can keep on top of this crazy news cycle. Whether it's Texas giving two middle fingers to the Supreme Court, or Donald Trump in all the courts ...
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Kefi Life

Kiki Vale

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Flourish and feel alive in mind, body and soul - the Greek way! Join radio personality Kiki Vale on Kefi Life, a podcast that will enlighten listeners to discover ways to prosper in life and seize moments. The energy and essence of our episodes is to lead you to a life where all is well - Ola Kala!
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Black Girl Brunch

Black Girl Brunch

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Tune in as the best friend duo, Iman and Sabria, talk their trash about celebrities, culture, health, dating, politics and navigating through life as black girls. Join them to find out who's in the Sunken Place each week and for their Common Sense Sis conversation, where they spit some truth on an array of subjects. So pull up a seat to the most guilt-free brunch around!
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Small Town News

Small Town News

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Welcome to Small Town News, located at the intersection of hardcore journalism and jelly-filled comedy. Each episode we read articles from small town newspapers from around the United States and use them to inspire improv stories. We've got fireworks filled with rattlesnakes. We've got a parade of painfully bad accents. We've got no idea what states border Michigan. But no matter where the story ends, it's all 100% true. Promise. Check our sources. Seriously.
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Welcome to Chronicles of Ancient Greece, the podcast where we dive into the fascinating, bloody, and unpredictable world of the Mediterranean. From the rise and fall of city-states to the gods and heroes who shaped the world, we explore both the myths and real events that defined the Western world, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great, or the rise of great philosophers. Ready for epic drama? Tune in! Follow on Bluesky:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/historypodcaster.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠ ...
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Keen On America

Andrew Keen

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Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known technology and politics broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he ...
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History with Jackson

History with Jackson

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Join Historian Jackson van Uden as he brings up-to-date historical research and stories from historians, researchers and authors to you in an accessible and digestible way every Sunday! If you want to get in touch with History with Jackson email: [email protected] To support History with Jackson to carry on creating content subscribe to History with Jackson+ on Apple Podcasts or become a supporter on Buy Me A Coffee: https://bmc.link/HistorywJackson To catch up on everything t ...
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Ithaca Bound

Ithacabound.com

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Ithaca Bound was a podcast hosted by Andrew Schiestel that explored history and mythology in the Mediterranean Basin. From March 22, 2021 to January 21, 2022, 188 episodes were published.
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The podcast from Chiro.London, hosted by founder Craig McLean. We meet chiropractors or people of influence who have an interesting life journey to share, always intertwined with a Chiro link. We started by chatting to the whole Chiro.London team of chiropractors and along the way we expanded to include some of the past Chiro London team, international chiropractors of influence, health focused London businesses or people (yoga, Pilates, gyms, PTs, psychotherapists) and simply some cool peop ...
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Ghost Buddies

Tatum & Lily

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Hey everyone! Welcome to Ghost Buddies! This podcast is two friends (Tatum and Lily) digging into paranormal adventures. Each episode is a new location across the U.S.A. We hope you enjoy it!
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Hour Haunting

Hour Haunting

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Best friends Rebeccia, Jo-Anna, and Ang explore spooky and haunted places and tell their raw, unfiltered stories about their experiences. We have a new segment where we also expose the haunting of our past dating experiences.
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Trojan War: The Podcast is a serialized telling, in contemporary language, of the myriad stories from Greek mythology that together comprise the greatest epic of Western culture: the story of the Trojan War. All the great characters from Homer’s Iliad are here – Achilles, Helen of Troy, Odysseus, the Olympian Gods – and all the famous moments from the story – the Trojan Horse, The Judgement of Paris and Achilles Heel. Episode after episode, Jeff Wright, the storyteller, delivers a conversati ...
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AFC DONScast | European Farewell, Celtic Heartbreak & Festive Dons Round-Up Thursday nights under the lights, a sold-out Red Army abroad, and another dramatic weekend for the Dons. In this week’s AFC DONScast, we reflect on the end of Aberdeen’s European journey in Prague as the Dons bow out of the UEFA Conference League after a tough test against …
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Our Conference League campaign comes to an end in Prague with another disappointing result - Gary & Gavin are here to look back at that one and ahead to our meeting with Celtic on Sunday. Become a paid subscriber over at abzfootballpodcast.com Follow us on our social media channels:- Twitter - @AbzPodcast Facebook - @ABZFootballPodcast Instagram - …
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In this WTR Small-Cap Spotlight, host Tim Gerdeman and WTR’s James Kisner sit down with Sparta Commercial Services (OTCQB: SRCO) CEO Tony Havens and WeDev Group CEO Eduardo Filho to unpack Sparta’s pivot from powersports/municipal leasing into fintech and private credit. The conversation centers on Agoge, a trade-finance platform that automates onb…
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Back in 2018, the New York Times reporters Katie Benner and Erica L. Green exposed the disturbing reality of the T.M. Landry college prep school in rural Louisiana. Celebrated as a “miracle” institution that successfully sent underprivileged black students to elite colleges, Benner and Green uncovered a miserable school that doctored college applic…
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Why Internet Spells Are Dangerous! The Hidden Karma & Blowback No One Talks About In this episode of Spirit Sherpa, your hosts delve into the intricacies of casting magic, specifically focusing on the consequences and ethical considerations of performing truth spells sourced from the internet. Key Topics Include: The importance of intention Uninten…
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WTF will happen in 2026? Over the last week, we’ve been running a series of interviews about the promise and peril of the new year. And in this new weekly magazine-style KEEN ON AMERICA show, we feature highlights of conversations with Charles Kupchan, Julia Hobsbawm, Keith Teare, Jason Pack, Jim Goldgeier, Chris Schroeder and Soli Ozel. And I end …
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We had recorded the full episode with all 3 of us back in the hotseat to look at the defeat to Falkirk & talk about Tuesday at Ibrox before "BREAKING NEWS" took hold and we look back, quickly, at the news that Jimmy Thelin had left the Club on Sunday evening. Become a paid subscriber over at abzfootballpodcast.com Follow us on our social media chan…
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2026 promises to be a year of peril and risk and the US attack on Venezuela is only just the beginning. Lingering conflicts in Ukraine, civil unrest in Iran and the US authoritarian turn combined with off the charts corruption of Trump regime makes the prospect of 2026 one to be treated with alarm. In this FRDH podcast, recorded as the news of the …
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Uncover the fascinating life of Margaret Beaufort, a woman who navigated power struggles and shaped the Tudor dynasty. Join us as Nicola Tallis shares insights from her book 'Uncrowned Queen.' 📚✨ Grab tickets and learn more about the Katharine of Aragon Festival which is running from the 24th of January to the 1st of February 2026 here https://pete…
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If Darwin’s evolutionary theories couldn’t kill America’s faith in God, then what could? That’s the message in Daniel K. William’s new book, The Search for a Rational Faith. Americans, Williams argues, have always sought to combine scientific knowledge with Christian apologetics. From the Founding Puritans to John Adams, Harriet Beecher and Martin …
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Hold onto your collars. The AI-generated crisis of work is here, and the storm will concentrate on white-collar workers from the professional economy. According to Julia Hobsbawm, founder of Workathon.io, these workers are about to experience the dismal reality of blue-collar redundancy. 50% of the US workforce will be freelance by 2030, some exper…
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Happy New Year everyone! As the final show of 2025 and first for 2026, we turned the tables and had me interviewed by the formidable David Masciotra. As you will see, my reading of 2025 is more optimistic than many of my guests. And my sense about 2026 is that it will be a happier year for America than 2025 (which isn’t saying much). As I explain t…
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Send us a text In modern English, a “tyrant” is someone who rules oppressively. To the ancient Greeks, the word tyrannoscould just refer to a king, but more specifically it meant an autocrat who had come to power by overthrowing an existing regime. The 7th and 6th centuries BCE saw the rise of many Greek tyrants who capitalized on class tensions an…
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212: The Healing Intelligence of Music A moving conversation with Greek Classical Composer and Pianist Eugenia Manolidou shines the light on how music is a living force for healing, memory and emotional regulation. Kiki and Eugenia Today's Lexi: Φεγγάρι – Fengári – Moon In Today’s Episode: The Buzz for Longevity: Paths to Renewal Series continues t…
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We live in transitional times. "The old is dead and the new cannot be born—this is the time of monsters," Antonio Gramsci famously wrote. But today, as the West declines and the East rises, these may equally be times for middle powers like Turkey. That, at least, is the view from Istanbul of the Turkish commentator Soli Özel, who sees an opportunit…
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In this special double edition of the AFC DONScast, we wrap up 2025 with a look back at the festive fixtures and a review of a rollercoaster year for Aberdeen. We dissect the frustration at Pittodrie as the Dons were held to a 1–1 draw by Dundee United in Graeme Shinnie’s 400th appearance, and the disappointment at Easter Road where a controversial…
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Our final league game of 2025 at Easter Road reviewed - to quote one John Cena - the time is now. Thanks Jimmy for your efforts and for delivering us the Scottish Cup in May but this ship has now sailed. Gary & Gav ruminate over the latest poor showing by Aberdeen and ponder if our board have the testicular fortitude required to make a critical dec…
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For Jason Pack, presenter of the Disorder podcast, the person of the year for 2025 was the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney. But for 2026, Pack predicts, the person of the year will be a resurrected Jeffrey Epstein (or, at least, the Epstein scandal). Orderers vs Disorderers: the dialectic driving our age of upheaval. The Canadian Prime Ministe…
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Send us a text Coins did what speeches couldn’t: they moved power across seas. We follow the rise of Greek silver as it financed fleets, paid jurors and rowers, and turned owls and gods into portable propaganda. Along the way, we pull apart the messy mechanics—clashing standards, missing denominations, and the birth of bankers who priced trust at s…
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According to the German Marshall Fund chair Chris Schroeder, China both goes to bed and wakes up thinking of China rather than America. How does the Washington DC based Schroeder know? Because, unlike almost all Americans, he actually made the effort of visiting China this year and seeing this vast and paradoxical country for himself. “Curiosity ha…
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A final home game of 2025 and it took on the shape and form of much of the fare that the Pittodrie faithful have witnessed during this calendar year as we huffed and puffed to a 1-1 draw with Jim Goodwin's anti-football Dundee United. Gav & Gary are here to look back at that one and ahead to our final game of the year as we travel to Leith to take …
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That was the year in tech. When nothing and yet everything happened. A year betwixt and between, simultaneously revolutionary and uneventful. That's the ironic conclusion Keith Teare and I reach about Silicon Valley in 2025. It's as if the AI revolution is changing the world without us fully noticing. AI has become electricity—ubiquitous and essent…
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Owen Emmerson, and Kate McCaffrey join Jackson van Uden they unravel the fascinating tales of Anne Boleyn and Katharine of Aragon, two iconic figures locked in history's eternal conflict. Discover their stories, their strength, and their legacy. 🏰✨ #TudorHistory #AnneBoleyn #KatharineOfAragon #HistoryUnveiled" Grab tickets and learn more about the …
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For all the talk of abundance, what’s really abundant these days are the morbid symptoms of a dying international system. According to Georgetown’s Charles Kupchan, these symptoms include the endless wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Trump’s frenetic demolition-man act, and the rise not just of China but of India and Turkey. As the Pax Americana of the pos…
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Lots of headlines today about "peace" negotiations in Ukraine. But does Putin really want to end the war — and is Trump able and willing to broker a real peace? According to the longtime Russia watcher Jim Goldgeier, Putin isn't interested in ending the war on anything other than complete Russian control over Ukraine. Putin, Goldgeier bleakly concl…
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What’s the data behind the data? According to data scientist Andrea Jones-Rooy, America-by-the-numbers doesn’t always add up to a pretty picture. Take, for example, the political divisions in American society, the fabled ideological cleavages that have supposedly splintered America into warring tribes. “We don’t really disagree,” Jones-Rooy says ab…
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Did 2025 mark the formal end of the neoliberal age? Gary Gerstle, author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, has already written neoliberalism’s official obituary, so he’s quite comfortable with a post neoliberal world. But Trump 2.0, Gerstle suggests, marks the formal beginning of America’s place in this new cracked, jagged and leaderles…
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Gary Marcus claims to just be an AI “realist”. Some would describe the controversial AI sceptic otherwise. But whatever his moniker, Marcus’ warnings about AI have been eerily accurate. In fact, 2025 could be described as the year scripted by Gary Marcus in 2024. He warned us about the limitations of LLMs, the bubbly economics of Sam Altman’s OpenA…
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We come full circle, discussing the most important cases of the year and what we expect to happen in 2026. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is home with his family. The Epstein files are out … sort of. Lindsey Halligan is out … again, sort of. And the Alien Enemies Act case that started it all, J.G.G. v. Trump, comes roaring back to life. Links: US v. Abrego G…
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Could Trump woo the upcoming 2026 World Cup and subvert the world’s most beloved sport for his own ugly ends? Not according to Simon Kuper, the Anglo-Dutch-French football writer whose adventures at the last nine World Cups are documented in his upcoming book World Cup Fever. Mussolini failed to control the 1934 World Cup in Italy, Kuper reminds us…
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Holiday Break Announcement: No New Episodes for Two Weeks In this brief holiday message, Kelle announces that there will be no new podcast episodes for the last two weeks of December. This break is to give her husband, who manages all the editing, some much-needed time off after dedicating himself to the task of post-op recovery nurse for two month…
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When you need a win to get your floundering managerial career up and running, who best to provide you with a cherished present of 3 points at Christmas time? Yes, the Dandy Dons - that's who! Gary, Gavin & Graham are back to peek from behind the sofa at our defeat at Celtic Park on Sunday before looking ahead to the visit of Dundee United to Pittod…
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What comes after neoliberalism? According to Branko Milanovic, the World Bank’s former lead research economist, it’s capitalism with a nationalist face. In his new book, The Great Global Transformation, Milanovic argues that globalization of the neoliberal age has been replaced by state-centric Chinese and American capitalism. Greed still drives th…
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30 years after the Dayton Agreement ended the war in Bosnia are there lessons for ending the war in Ukraine? In this far-reaching and deeply personal podcast FRDH host Michael Goldfarb and documentary filmmaker Fiona Lloyd-Davies who has been reporting on and off from Bosnia since the start of the war in 1992, look back at the conflict, the diploma…
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🚗💨 Ever wondered what it’s like to be part of a Formula One exhibition? Join us as we dive into the behind-the-scenes magic of the F175 live exhibition at Silverstone Museum! From project management to showcasing iconic cars, it’s all about celebrating 75 years of racing history! To keep up to date with Silverstone Museum head to their website If y…
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The 2025 Trump was supposed to be a more refined version of the 2017 original. But according to National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn, Trump 2.0 has fizzled into Trump 0.2. 2025 will be remembered, Heilbrunn argues, as the beginning of the end of Trump’s authoritarian aspirations. MAGA has fractured, the administration is incompetent, and Trump …
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Whither America? For the Canadian writer Stephen Marche, that’s no longer the question. America in 2025, for Marche, has already withered. The Toronto-based author of The Next Civil War argues that the future has already arrived in the United States. And it’s a violent, regressive future - which is only going to get more dismal in 2026. That’s the …
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Liz and Andrew discuss the state of legal journalism. Trump is attacking the judiciary in the media — sometimes both at once. How is covering Trump different this time around? And what gives us hope for journalism and democracy? Plus: what’s going on in the trial of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan? Links: AllRiseNews.com US v. Dugan https://www.courtl…
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The best fiction seems real, the best non-fiction books read like fiction. That, at least, is Bethanne Patrick’s take on the best books of 2025. Selecting her favorite four fiction and four non-fiction books, the LA Times book critic suggests that all eight of these books brilliantly blur the line between fact and fiction. Take, for example, Murder…
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In the final episode of the year, the team breaks down the key macro and geopolitical drivers shaping Q1 2026 and what they mean for the physical barrel. They cut through Venezuela and Ukraine headlines, softening economic signals, and growing oversupply concerns, before moving product by product: distillates enter Q1 on a tighter footing, naphtha …
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In this episode of the WTR Small-Cap Spotlight podcast, Bill Alessi, Founder & CEO and Chris Chumas, Chief Strategy Officer, of Alpha Modus Corp (NASDAQ: AMOD), discusses how the company is transforming in-store retail through its patented AI-driven technology ecosystem designed to enhance real-time shopper engagement and monetization. The conversa…
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