This week, The Daily examined how power operates across American institutions—from Trump's aggressive reshaping of federal agencies to Elon Musk's orchestration of a historic IPO, and from a town's deliberate efforts to reverse school integration to internal fractures at CBS News over editorial independence. The episodes reveal a pattern of individuals and movements working to remake the systems around them, whether through executive action, market engineering, or institutional pressure. Meanwhile, the podcast also turned outward to global crises and culture, covering the intractable Ebola outbreak, a potential AI regulation framework, and the World Cup's commercial machinery.
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