{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F0390fb5d-608d-4d16-8d9b-dce54b689d29","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"05/11/2021 - Bigger and Better Buffets\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/0390fb5d-608d-4d16-8d9b-dce54b689d29\"></iframe>","title":"05/11/2021 - Bigger and Better Buffets","description":"Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown University's Watson Institute, and political scientist Carrie Nordlund share their take on the news.\n\nOn 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?\n\nYou 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]\n\nYou can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dJhD9bxK1noGUn5kFysZdXsUoxuTo8I-/view?usp=sharing]","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/d9b1ce33-e4fe-4572-9121-499912537296/artworks-y7izo5t2n3c5nprl-mmmvlg-t3000x3000.jpg"}