05/11/2021 - Bigger and Better Buffets

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and political scientist Carrie Nordlund share their take on the news. On this episode: the politics of Facebook's 'Supreme Court'; new voter restriction laws in the US and the Republican Party's continued flirtation with authoritarianism; why suspending vaccine patents won't actually help the world to make more vaccines; America's declining birthrate and other revelations from the US Census; the Covid spike in India; the UK Conservative Party's continued dominance over Labour and what it can teach progressives in the US; is Scottish independence on the horizon? You can listen to Mark Blyth of the Watson Institute's other podcast 'Trending Globally' here: [https://soundcloud.com/watsoninstitute/earth-day-special-whats-missing-from-the-climate-discussion] You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJhD9bxK1noGUn5kFysZdXsUoxuTo8I-/view?usp=sharing]