Category: Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

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A weekend with Neil Tyson- Questforum special

In conversation with Amy Harmon, the two–time Pulitzer Prize–winning national correspondent for The New York Times, covering the intersection of science and society. In celebration of Tyson’s new book, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,” the duo will discuss his illustrious career as a science communicator and the...

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The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing- Augie Picado(week end listening)

We’ve heard a lot of rhetoric lately suggesting that countries like the US are losing valuable manufacturing jobs to lower-cost markets like China, Mexico and Vietnam — and that protectionism is the best way forward. But those jobs haven’t disappeared for the reasons you may think, says border...

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Populism and the Fate of the West -RSA(Quest Sunday special)

When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power, and for citizens to look upon one another with suspicion, incomprehension and mistrust. But as mainstream technocrats are purged, and populists fall on their own...