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Recently journalist and writer David Roberts, who hosts the podcast Volts, had on an interesting guest to talk about misinformation. The guest, Samuel Bragg, and David discussed how the lack of trust in information and truth producing institutions has led to more tribalism and social identity leading to beliefs rather than “truth”. And because we
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Carter Lavin to discuss his new book If You Want to Win You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy. We discuss the mess and practice of politics, how we have more power than we think as advocates, and how we can get
In an unsealed lawsuit by the FTC that was dropped by the Trump Administration, evidence was revealed that PepsiCo has been conspiring with WalMart to keep the price of Pepsi’s soft drinks lower at the big box store for the last ten years. Stacy Mitchell of ILSR shared this on Bluesky. Why does this matter
