The speaker ouster and its cost to our democracy
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Business in the U.S. House of Representatives has come to a standstill after Kevin McCarthy was removed as speaker Tuesday. Fallout has been messy, to say the least. We’ll get into what this historic moment could mean for the health of our democracy. Plus, some jobs are more at risk of being automated by AI than others. And NASA astronauts on the Artemis III mission will head to the moon in style, with a little help from Prada.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “Playbook PM: Jordan and Scalise make their moves” from Politico
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- “Vote to oust McCarthy as speaker is a warning sign for democracy, scholars say” from The Washington Post
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- “ChatGPT provided better customer service than his staff. He fired them.” from The Washington Post
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- “Malaria vaccine big advance against major child killer” from BBC News
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- “Prada to Help Design Spacesuits for NASA Moon Mission” from The Wall Street Journal
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