Under President Franklin Roosevelt the RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) provided the financial underpinning of the New Deal. Jesse Jones was the brains behind the operation. As head of the RFC he was the most powerful fiscal officer since Alexander Hamilton….More>>
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BBC In Our Time
The Guardian- ‘We don’t have another country to run to’: Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site
- Mozambique says five citizens killed in ‘xenophobic attacks’ in South Africa
- People ‘panicking’ as Ghana passes sweeping law criminalising LGBTQ+ activity
- UK will not have to pay Rwanda £100m over failed asylum scheme, court rules
- Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study
- Trump administration proposes 25% tariffs on Brazil despite US trade surplus
- Cricket Canada suspended over allegations of gang-linked corruption
- Musket balls and a burnt hull: evidence of real pirates of the Caribbean found in Bahamas
- Mexico City police teargas teachers’ protest 10 days before World Cup
- Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives
Talking Points Memo- SCOTUS Cobbles Together Excuse to Let Alabama Discriminate Against Black Voters in New Order
- Running on ‘Prairie Populism,’ Turek Wins Primary as Iowa Dems Reach for US Senate Seat
- Republican Who Has Mysteriously Gone Missing From Congress Gets a Dem Challenger
- Dems to Warn Trump He Has Run Afoul of War Powers Act With Absurd Claim That Iran War Has Been ‘Terminated’
- Drip, Drip, Drip: Grand Jury Misconduct Edition
- Tariff Refunds Are Going Well. Trump’s DOJ Wants to Make Them Harder.
- Will We NEVER Learn the Lessons of Trump?
- Trump Makes Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence
- Long, Weird California Governor Primary Comes to a Close After Surprise Becerra Surge
- DOJ Trumpets That It Will ‘Abide by’ Slush Fund Court Order After GOP Balks At Funding ICE, Ballroom
The Intercept- Adam Hamawy, Doctor Who Volunteered in Gaza, Poised to Become Pro-Palestine Rep. From New Jersey
- The Pentagon Is Running an AI Propaganda Mill Targeting Latin America
- Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI
- New York Comptroller’s Trip to Israel Raised Ethical Concerns, State Commission Said
- A Gay Palestinian Fled to Israel’s “Safe Haven.” Israel Tried to Exploit Him for Intelligence.
- Richard Glossip on Life After Decades on Death Row
- The Los Angeles Left Is at War With Itself Over the Mayor’s Race
- ICE Pepper-Sprayed, Beat Detainees for Protesting “Horrific Conditions” in Delaney Hall Jail
- After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.
- The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest
France24- French Open: Alexander Zverev reaches semis as grand slam dream lives on
- Colombia presidential frontrunner vows closer US ties after Trump endorsement
- US military says it intercepted Iranian missile and drone attacks in Gulf
- Middle East war live: US military says it intercepted Iranian missile and drone attacks
- Zverev reaches French Open semi-finals as Mensik ends Fonseca run
- Trump to speak at rescheduled White House correspondents' dinner
- Russia 'trying to prevent Armenia's diversification of connectivity', expert says
- Two killed in Kenya protests over US Ebola centre
- 2026 World Cup: Are US stadiums unprepared? Viral Senegal ball bounce clip sparks pitch fears
- Football violence is about 'excitement' and 'proving one's masculinity', expert says
Media Matters For America- Fox News' Byron York says Bill Pulte as DNI “seems like a pretty poor choice”
- Sean Hannity on CBS News: “There’s only one way to clean it up and that’s to clean house”
- Fox stands behind Trump policies that are hurting America's tourism industry
- Greg Bovino: "Immigration and remigration, mass deportations, are the number one issue for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our society, our values, our customs, our beliefs"
- Right-wing media are using an IPCC climate scenario revision to attack climate science and climate policy
- Ben Shapiro praises Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss and says that CBS should fire Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes
- Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec celebrate the appointment of Bill Pulte as DNI, saying he will "start digging in on the domestic side of terrorism"
- Raleigh ABC11 covers economic frustration: "At a certain point you're going to have to break, buckle down, and start putting money away just because of what's going on with the economy"
- On The Weeknight, Angelo Carusone discusses the conservative takeover of media infrastructure
- Megyn Kelly and Shawn Ryan discuss Trump administration’s “total betrayal” of the MAHA agenda
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