Jun 17, 2020

Hollywood is back to work, but TV and movies won’t look the same

Cast members of "The Bold and the Beautiful" at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2017. The soap opera will resume filming but keep the cast socially distanced. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images

Plus: Racism in tech, unemployment in the U.K. and the difference between the debt and the deficit.

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Race and Economy

Tech companies update language to avoid offensive terms

by Kimberly Adams

Jun 17, 2020

Big tech firms are moving away from coding language that carries racial connotations.

Tech companies are moving away from terms that could be considered racially insensitive, such as "master" and "slave."

Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images

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COVID-19

A soap opera leads the way into post-lockdown Hollywood

by Jasmine Garsd

Jun 17, 2020

CBS's "The Bold and the Beautiful" is restarting filming with on-set health guidelines in place.

Cast members of "The Bold and the Beautiful" at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2017. The soap opera will resume filming but keep the cast socially distanced.

Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images

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COVID-19

Chickens come home to roost for new baby chick owners

by Carlos Morales

Jun 17, 2020

Hatcheries across the country saw a surge in orders when the lockdown began. The chickens came first, then the eggs.

Douglas Friedman was stuck at home because of shelter-in-place orders, so he decided to raise chickens with a neighbor.

Carlos Morales/Marfa Public Radio

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Kai Explains

What's behind the national debt?

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal

Jun 17, 2020

We look into how the government borrows money and what it means in the long run.

Then-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in 2016. The national debt has since passed $26 trillion.

Alex Wong/Getty Images

COVID-19

As COVID-19 lockdown eases, Britain faces an unfamiliar threat: mass unemployment

by Stephen Beard

Jun 17, 2020

Laid-off workers try to come to terms with a grueling new reality in what was once Europe’s most vibrant labor market.

A million jobs have been lost in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic as people stayed home and practiced social distancing.

Mike Hewitt/Getty Images

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Shelf Life

How Japan's superfans taught the world to love pop culture

by Matt Alt

Jun 17, 2020

Author Matt Alt describes how Japan's pop culture, and its superfans, shaped sensibilities the world over.

A shop in New York celebrates Hello Kitty's 45th birthday in 2019. Japanese pop culture is known far and wide.

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images

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U.S. criticizes WTO for big disparities in tariffs

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Jun 17, 2020

The Trump administration is denouncing the fact that the tax levels vary greatly between members of the global trade body.

An East China Sea container ship in the Port of Oakland in 2018. China's economy has grown 900% since 2001, causing a tariff imbalance.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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Music from the episode

Let's Love Crown City Rockers

Perfect Circle Nujabes

First Choice Oddisee

Brave New World The Foreign Exchange

Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There (From "Persona 5") [For Flute & Piano Duet] Shoji Meguro, daigoro789

Always Something DJ Mitsu The Beats

Latitude -remix (feat. Five Deez) Nujabes, Five Deez

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Daisy Palacios Senior Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer

Sean McHenry Associate Producer

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