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Demographic change taking place in realtime and all this can fuel political backlash as liberal "new york times" columnist michelle goldberg pointed out in a recent essay called has the left gone wrong? they have come to believe the language of social justice left is needlessly alienating she wrote the broader left got to let go of the illusion there exists voters waiting to be roused by a radical message. that means progressives got to go into elections with the electorate they have. one that i...

Cohost of nprs monoxide poisoning, daily economics podcast, the indicator, shes also a correspondent for planet money. stacy, good to have you on the show. youve been reporting on something economists call "the money illusion". tell us more about what you found. >> thank you so much for having me. the money illusion basically is that, the illusion of having more money. your paycheck gets bigger, theres a larger number in your bank account, but that money is buying less. so its the illusion of ha...

They were an effort to create the illusion of contested state results in order to trigger the second part of the plan, to give mike pence an excuse to reject the electors. stop the certification and keep donald trump in power. were still waiting to find out what, if anything, the january six committee that congressman raskin sits on is going to do about it. that raskin another members say they are now looking at the fixer difficulties and thats not at all, just last week the former trump campaig...

And you know it is not true, but not true is not the same as lie. i mean, we need to be a bit more subtle about our distinctions than that. if you go to the cinema and immerse yourself in a fantastically gripping film, youre not under any illusion, you know, that its real. or at least you may be under an illusion for that moment, but youre certainly not committed to that forever, that thought, you dont believe it. you imagine it or you get involved in the fiction. so, i think thats... i mean, it...

They have no illusion about what they face. for some, brave words are mixed with tears. >> we will fight, we will share an f that god decides who will die. but we will defend our country. >> its a world turned upside down for many here. this underground bunker was built during the cold war to protect family from the nuclear attack but now hes getting it ready to protect his family from the russians. the change is not easy to process. >> i still cannot imagine ukraine fighting russia. but i guess...

Department. we got to figure this out and help those health and human services will not be able to figure this out on their own. >> laura: they want to shut down, call it disinformation. he was one of the biggest critics of the great barrington declaration. >> dr. bhattacharya: he wants to use the department of justice but he wants to criminalized scientific debate. stick about that for a moment. i think people who are competent in their ideas are not afraid of discussion and debate. what you ha...

To fauci calling me a fringe scientist and calling for takedown. it seems like a pat other than, they marginalize other scientists to create illusion of consensus that doesnt exist in the scientific community. they want to look like they are in charge of a scientist consensus, but in order to do that, they need to involve scientist necessary discussion and debate. their modus oreandius, is to deplatform people. they did this with the lockdowns, with the lab leak and early treatment, as well. it ...

Thank you for all that. appreciate the latest from that, josh. lets go to another shipment of u.s. military cargo to keep in this same vein of discussion. it has arrived in kyiv today as thousands of russian troops are massed on ukraines border. matt bradley is joining us from ukraine once again. you have to wonder how the folks there, matt, are preparing and even reacting to these latest headlines, though i know you say in some parts along the border, its been a constant state of stress and p...

Understands that this is the dangerfor ukraine. now, nobody has any illusion that this is the dangerfor has any illusion that this is the danger for the european and global security, because putin can at the same time attack the baltic states, attack poland, using ukraine as an instrument for blackmailing the whole world. and with this situation, everybody understands that in the west and in ukrainian security, they invest in their own security. and i have one proposalfor all own security. and i...

Ones living, i happy to be raised in a small town in rural montana, which limits what im exposed to. parochialism is different. it is a choice to be narrow. it is a decision to block from view the complexity of the world and narrow ones sphere of concern, so when we refuse to expose our children to certain literatures, were choosing narrowness. were choosing a kind of parochialism that provides a kind of false comfort, a false sense of safety, an illusion, a fantasy about how we should understan...