It’s November 2nd. This day in 1977, Jimmy Carter signed legislation to raise the minimum wage to $3.35.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the relatively short history of the minimum wage in this country — one in which the rate was increased fairly regularly, until a generation ago.
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The Highs And Lows Of Latin American Diplomacy [Some Sunday Context]
This past week we discussed the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba, 1961. Today, another episode about JFK' in the very same time period -- when he hosted a couple hundred Latin American diplomats to lay out his vision for the “Alliance for Progress,” an ambitious plan to support democra ... Show More
16m 48s
Apr 23
Bay of Pigs: Lessons Not-Learned (Part Two)
We continue our conversation about the Bay of Pigs invasion with a look at how it all went wrong on the two days of combat in Cuba. Plus, the long-term lessons for JFK, the CIA, and US foreign policy.Join our America250 newsletter community! Subscribe for free to get the latest n ... Show More
27m 59s
Apr 21
Bay of Pigs: A Well-Planned Fiasco (Part One)
For the sixteenth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go, for the first time to the Cold War. It’s April 1961, and the US is concerned about Cuba’s new leftist leader, Fidel Castro. The US has a new leader of its own, JFK, who adopts - and adapts - a plan from Eisenh ... Show More
36m 26s
Oct 2021
Primer: Microworking for the Weekend
<p>We're back! This week, we speak with Phil Jones, author of <em>Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism</em>, a new book from Verso Books. Jones is also a researcher for the think tank Autonomy.</p>
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39m 1s
Aug 2023
Repudiados por Franco y odiados por el Reich - Ep.1 (Españoles en campo de concentración nazis)
El retrato político de los reos que arribaron a Francia a partir de 1938 nos muestra a antiguos combatientes del Ejército Popular y a miles de sindicalistas. El doctor en Historia Gaspar Celaya, experto en el exilio, confirma que hubo anarcosindicalistas de la CNT, trotskistas de ... Show More
16m 11s
Aug 2021
235-Korean Folklore: Ghost Story
<p>Three stories from Korean folklore! On the first, a boy loves collecting stories, but no one really taught him proper story care, so they went the way of so many carnival goldfish. On the second, a young man protests his unfair (and kind of murdery) working conditions...by tur ... Show More
43m 44s
Apr 2021
The Law is a Tutu (with Dahlia Lithwick)
On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “The Law is a Tutu,” Preet answers listener questions about whether government officials listen to his podcast, the debate around cameras in the courtroom, and his favorite legal films.
Then, Preet interviews Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor ... Show More
59m 6s