Podcast 3/26/2016: News Rundown and College Tuition

In this episode, we run through a news-packed week including Brussels, Obama in Cuba and Argentina, the real reason behind the "War on Drugs", North Carolina striving to be a shittier state, racist twitter bots, voter suppression in Arizona and more.  We then dive deep into the practical and philosophical reasons for cheap college.

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Notes:

• Timeline of the riots in Gujarat http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/world/asia/modi-gujarat-riots-timeline.html?_r=0#/#time287_8514
• A history of the Tamil Tigers:  http://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2008/11/2008112019115851343.html
• North Carolina did ban using climate change data.  More evidence that we should put birth control in their water. http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-bans-latest-science-rising-sea-level/story?id=16913782
• The Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell (Republican) was in charge of the polling places in by far the most ethnically diverse and most populous part of Arizona.  I implore my fellow Bernie supporters not to engage in ridiculous conspiracy theories about how this was Hillary Clinton's evil plan.  Clinton conspiring with Arizona Republicans is pretty far fetched for me.  Also, you can place  a lot of blame on the Supreme Court overturning parts of the Voting Rights Act, more reason why the "Bernie or Bust" movement is idiotic and counter-productive. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/arizona-hearing-latinos-demand-answers-primary-voting-problems-n547131
• Steve Jobs was a terrible person.  Apart from the deplorable near slave labor conditions overseas in Apple's contractors, he engaged in collusion to keep the wages of software engineers down.  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/technology/engineers-allege-hiring-collusion-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0
• Cost of the University of Vermont's proposed new hockey arena:  $65 million  http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/sports/college/2014/11/14/uvm-gaining-ground-new-arena/19053135/ 
• Estimated in-state cost of attending University of Vermont for 2016-2017:  $31,960 ($15,096 in tuition alone) http://www.uvm.edu/~stdfinsv/?Page=tuition-fees.html&SM=tuitionsubmenu.html
• Ben Bernanke's surprisingly good and surprisingly subversive Baccalaureate speech to Princeton http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20130602a.htm#f1

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