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It’s been about a year and a half since ChatGPT hit the scene and changed the world of education, leaving teachers scrambling to adjust lesson plans and grading policies. Currently, only a handful of states are providing guidance on how AI should be used in the classroom. Just five have official policies, with about a dozen more in the works. Bree Dusseault at the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University has been following all this.

You can’t understand the modern Republican Party without understanding the complete collapse of trust in mainstream institutions that has taken place among its voters over the last half-century.

In 1964, 73 percent of Republicans said they trusted the federal government to do the right thing always or most of the time. Today, that number is down to 9 percent. And it’s not just government. Pew found that only 35 percent of Republicans trust national news and 61 percent think public schools are having a negative effect on the country. Many of the issues animating the modern right — from fights over school curriculums and learning loss to media bias and Covid vaccines — are connected to this deep distrust.

Mary Katharine Ham is a journalist and conservative commentator who has appeared on CNN, Fox News and ABC News. In Katharine Ham’s view, America’s institutions have “earned” her party’s rampant distrust. Across her writings, she has leveled scathing critiques of numerous mainstream institutions, from the media to the C.D.C. and universities, arguing that these institutions have consistently failed to serve ordinary Americans. So this is a conversation that explores Katharine Ham’s critique in order to understand the distrust at the heart of the Republican Party.

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“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Coalition of the Distrustful” by Michelle Goldberg

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Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

The Right by Matthew Continetti

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What’s it like to be a child today? Anoosh Chakelian, Rachel Cunliffe and Zoë Grünewald discuss the New Statesman's recent interview with Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner for England – who is tasked with protecting and promoting the rights of children – and how government and tech companies are failing young people.

We hear about what it’s like to grow up online and the rise in pupil absences since the pandemic, as well as De Souza’s work on fighting online harms and why her biggest challenge remains the tech giants.

The team also consider the political response to the mental health crisis in schools, the migrant children who have gone missing from hotels run by the Home Office, and why the Illegal Migration Bill could embolden human traffickers.

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Oops! How did nearly $2 million worth of nickel owned by JPMorgan Chase turn out to be just bags of rocks? We’ll give you the TL;DR on commodity trading and tell JPMorgan’s tale of woe. And, the House passed a piece of GOP-backed legislation that’s in line with many conservative politicians’ push to limit what can be taught and read in schools. While the bill won’t make it through a Democratic Senate, it could still be used as a political tool. Plus, a round of Half Full/Half Empty with a surprise guest host!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “JPMorgan’s Mystery ‘Nickel’ Rocks: The Hunt for Clues Begins With a Kick” from Bloomberg

• • “JPMorgan Had Some Fake Nickel” from Bloomberg

• • “Parents Bill of Rights: 5 things to know about the House GOP’s legislation” from The Hill

• • “House passes the GOP’s Parents Bill of Rights measure opposed by Biden” from NBC News

• • “Twitter claims ‘legacy’ blue checkmarks will start to disappear on April Fools’ Day” The Verge

• • Moderna will charge around $130 for its COVID vaccine — and Congress isn’t too happy

• • “Subway’s Footlong Pass is back as more restaurants test subscriptions” from Axios

• • “These New Yorkers Hate the New ‘We ❤️ NYC’ Logo” from The New York Times

• • “WGA Would Allow Artificial Intelligence in Scriptwriting, as Long as Writers Maintain Credit” from Variety

• • “Our Film Critic on Why He’s Done With the Movies” from The Daily

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Democrats howl as Republicans move to protect children from radical gender and race theory; we examine the tragic story of Jazz Jennings, the Left’s poster child for transgender theory; and TikTok’s CEO gets grilled on the Hill.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we may finally have the answer to the great UFO mystery, and for the Biden Administration, it's the most humiliating answer imaginable. Also, more shocking footage of the aftermath from the Ohio train derailment. But Pete Buttigieg says it's nothing to worry about because trains derail all the time. John Fetterman is hospitalized again. Concern grows that AI chatbots might become sentient and takeover the planet. And Chelsea Handler fires back at her terribly sexist and patriarchal critics, such as myself. 

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C’mon, man! The economy is great! Inflation doesn’t exist! And Ukraine is only a few more trillion away from winning the war. Pinkie swear! 

We all know Uncle Joe is full of hot air. But is it enough hot air to fill a Chinese spy balloon?

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Krystal, Saagar, & friends cover BLM fraud accusations, the teacher shortage, Stacey Abrams campaign, AOC comments, Dems dark money, & more! 

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