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Day: December 30, 2024
Imagine standing on a street corner and trying to decide whether someone has a severe, moderate or mild substance use disorder, whether their medical condition is serious and likely to deteriorate, or whether their personal safety is so compromised that they are likely to die if they are not detained. Such weighty decisions are usually the domain of trained medical professionals, but starting …
How’s this for irony? Never in American political history has the business class – or more accurately, one noisy part of it – jumped so enthusiastically on to a presidential bandwagon. But never has a president needed them less. Trump’s core Maga vote is strongly anti-globalisation. This year his campaign acquired the support of wealthy supporters …
Former president Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old. In today’s episode, two books examine Carter’s career in the White House and beyond. First, NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Kai Bird about The Outlier, a biography that argues that Carter’s deregulation of several industries, his social legislation and his foreign policy made his one-term presidency exceptionally productive. Then, a conversation from the vault between NPR’s Eric Westervelt and Carter himself about his memoir, A Full Life.To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR’s book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookoftheday