May 23, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was called to Capitol Hill to defend the Trump administration's agenda this week. Former Secretary of State John Kerry joins the show to discuss. Author Laura Bates to discuss her new book "The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution Is Reinventing Misogyny." Biochemist David Liu on the Trump administration's cuts to scientific research.
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Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts
S2025 E7235 - 18m 5s
For decades the United States has been at the forefront of medical research. But now the Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in funding for universities, hospitals, and other scientific institutions that carry out that research. David Liu is a biochemist and biologist who developed two exceptionally precise gene-editing tools that offer new hope for untreatable cancers.
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