Industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Reading everybody. Welcome to politics and prose. Im bradley graham, a coowner of the bookstore along with my wife lissa muscatine. While theres certainly been a lot of news this week, much of it of course about the start of Donald Trumps trial in the senate, but some important things have been happening in russia as well, particularly an announcement by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins on plans to relinquish the presidency, or not, in a few years. We are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa, who is the moscow correspondent for the new yorker. Yorker. Hes been covering russia for much of the past decade, and his new book between two fires offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on, above all,
[background sounds]. [background. [background sounds]. Thank you for coming and welcome to our Health Equity roundtable with Pete Buttigiege. We are here at nicholtown missionary baptist church. And we are so happy that all of you are here today. Health equity in healthcare is a major issue. Throughout South Carolina but in the africanamerican communities and we have, and esteemed panel. The discussion here today with Pete Buttigiege in regards to Health Equity with the African American community if he and when he becomes the president of the united states. Will go around our panel and ask everyone to take 30 seconds to a minute to introduce themselves, who they are and why theyre here. We would like to start with this young lady on the end and we will work our way around. My name is alicia, im healthcare from professional. Im in healthcare executive, i have lived in various areas of the country and have relocated here. Im undergoing a lot of change, and strong interest with my family
Alanna feldman who joined us this morning, its my pleasure to introduce and welcome before us today ambassador william taylor, junior. Ambassador, within the world of foreignpolicy and National Security, is very well known and his reputation long preceded him. Ive had the pleasure of working and knowing ambassador taylor, my friend bill for a good 30 years. And one of the benefits of a very difficult situation that our country faces a few months ago and this bill taylor faced, given his subpoena and testimony, led to the fact that the nation at large got to see a magnificent servant. And thats why we are bringing him here today. Because he has served the country superbly across his career. He graduated from west point, he was the Cadet Company commander. He served in vietnam, he stayed an extra six months. Served in vietnam for 18 months when he could have left after 12. He served in a Rifle Company and then commanded, served in a rifle platoon and then commanded a company. He received
Enormously exciting era, advances in genetics and neuroscience are giving us new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human societies, policies, and economies. We are like physicists, i like to say at the outset of the 19th century poised at a moment in history that would produce faradays in md is in the coming years. People need and dalton ought to be excited and in our case i think we both are but a lot of social scientists arent. Why . Because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of an orthodoxy that is scared stiff of biology. At the moment it takes the form of three widely and loudly proclaimed truths, gender is a social construct, race is a social construct, class is a function of privilege. I have stated those tenants very boldly. If you go to a University Campus and chat privately with faculty members Whose Research touches on these issues you will find many of them have a much more nuanced view than that
Of the retail trader, the little guy, could be causing more volatility in the market and talk about getting real. One top angel says the beaten down resale retailer, the real real, could be about to make a comeback. Hell be here to explain why hes so bullish. Power lunch starts right now stocks are selling off. Right now, the dow down b about 300 points nasdaq down nearly 2 . Major indices on track for their worst week in february take a look at gold. Lots of eyeballs on this one today. The precious metal is on a wild ride up 8 already this year and near ly 2 today. 16. 49. The defensive tone is evident in todays market. Those momentum names that trade is is unwind names like b facebook and amazon down around 2 the Semiconductor Stocks are also getting hurt today. New lows for a basket of Energy Stocks including exxon, marathon oil and noble energy a political unrest in libya easing there afore oil is given back some gains, plus energy estimates for the First Quarter continue to fall w