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Informed Dissent for August 15, 2026: The Odyssey and a Teal Handgun
Informed Dissent
A weekly news podcast: Dispatches from the gender culture war with Cori Cohn, Jamie Reed and Lauren Leggieri.
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The Weekly News Roundup: August 14, 2026
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Democratic think tank rethinks sports, Congress looks into the DAR's membership fight, HHS ends an “affirming” foster mandate, the U.K.’s EHRC Single Sex Code update, and Hurray for women’s tennis!
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Informed Dissent for July 25 2026 with James Esses
The Weekly News Roundup: July 24, 2026
An Ohio Democrat breaks with her party’s activist wing, Oregon emerges as a gender medicine outlier, and a Maine debate becomes a viral liability
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The Weekly News Roundup: July 17, 2026
NPR and HHS clash over a hospital funding rule, WPATH loses ground with the FTC, New Hampshire overrides its own supreme court, and the HRC suspends hospital scores