After interviewing an economist, a therapist, a trainer, a physician, and other experts about how to get through the corona virus crisis, a comedian was definitely in order.
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The Provincetown Independent began publishing less than a year ago, in response to a national trend which saw all but two of the Cape’s local newspapers gobbled up and gutted by large corporations. They were doing just fine until the pandemic hit. Here’s what happened.
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Sam Shem is the Harvard-trained intern who back in 1978 wrote House of God, the wildly influential novel that changed medical education forever. He’s back with a sequel exposing the ways nonprofit healthcare systems, insurance companies, Big Pharma, and hedge funds are working in tandem to destroy hospitals now.
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Trevor Moawad is a mental conditioning coach to elite performers. His techniques have been embraced by Seattle QB Russell Wilson, coach Nick Saban, and countless athletes in the NBA, MLB, and the NCAA. Oddly enough, their struggles to achieve are a lot like ours.
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Tufts prof Eitan Hersh describes a political hobbyist as someone who is addicted to political websites; goes to a big demo once a year; and donates five dollars whenever they get a desperate email from MoveOn.org. But he also tells us how to amass real political power.
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Let’s face it, most progressives view Trump supporters as racist, misogynistic, gun-toting, knuckleheads while they see liberals as sneering elitist snobs. In her new book, Erica Etelson proposes a way to get beyond our contempt.
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We all know about the battle between Democrats and Republicans. But on college campuses liberals and progressives are tearing each other apart in squabbles about identity, privilege, and the ‘crimes’ of expressing disagreeable opinions. Skidmore Professor Robert Boyers says we’re creating a generation that is terrified of opposing ideas.
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Every President from Reagan to Trump has made sure migrants were hunted down and thrown in prison. Immigration lawyer Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez tells us how this policy has become an economic windfall and a winning campaign strategy as well as generating wildly successful companies whose stocks may have found their way into your pension plan.
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From human trafficking to vetting a john; from the results of legalized prostitution in Rhode Island to Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s initiative to decriminalize sex work, a former prostitute/activist joins Ira to talk about making the world’s oldest profession legal.
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