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Nobody's In Charge
by Ash Splawinski
Nobody's in charge and that's not an accident. Neither is what happens when somebody finally is. Each episode digs into one story about regulatory gaps, power struggles, and who ends up paying for them in the end.
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It's Lake Ontario, btw
After the trade talks between Canada and the U.S. collapsed, President Trump signed an order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America. Google Maps changed it for US users only. MapQuest refused and promptly became the #1 free app in the US App Store for it. A YouGov poll found that most Americans disagree with the change, including most Republicans. But the numbers differ depending on whether those Republicans are MAGA or not.In this episode, I talk through what a U.S. President actually has authority to do to a Great Lake, how shared resources are governed, and more with political scientist Vanita Clare.
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Quebec, Explained To Americans
A Canada-U.S. trade deal just collapsed over French-language labelling rules. To understand why this happened, you need to a few decades of context. This episode contents a separatism explainer, a very snarky Pierre Trudeau, and multiple firebombed coffee shops.
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The Interview That Wasn't
I was invited onto a radio show to talk about prediction markets. Then I got stood up. Here's everything I wanted to say about prediction markets... and then some!
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