Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Trump's parallels with Nixon, and the growing fight against Trump's travel ban
After President Trump ordered to bar people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US, some travelers were detained at airports over the weekend. Silicon Valley is also worried about how this will affect their workers, may who are foreign-born and rely on H-1B visas. Also, might Trump be repeating some of Richard Nixon’s mistakes?
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenPhoto courtesy; Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a hangar at Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona December 16, 2015. (Gage Skidmore)
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In 1973, President Nixon fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. As a result the attorney general and the deputy attorney general resigned.
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The head of an immigration lawyers group sheds some light on who was detained at airports, and what’s next for them.
Read the story9 minSilicon Valley slams Trump's travel ban
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Many of the companies now at the center of Silicon Valley didn’t exist 10 years ago. We learn how Uber and AirBnB started, and why this generation of tech CEOs is different.
Read the story14 minCan Sony Pictures survive a $1 billion loss?
The 93-year-old Culver City studio is reducing its estimated value by nearly a billion dollars. In a letter to employees, company leaders said that’s partly because of “dramatic shifts in the home entertainment space.”
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