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The idea that manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas or across borders to other countries is a frequent explanation from both Republicans and Democrats about why the American middle class has been hollowed out.

But it's a convenient half-truth. The other side we don't talk about is the other kind of offshoring, from the shores of the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Grant talks to Middlebury College Associate Professor Gary Winslett, whose new article for the Washington Post is all about this other offshoring and why we should be talking more about it. Their conversation is a deep dive into why manufacturing left the Midwest for the South, how the new talk of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance mindset fits into all this, and whether the leaders of both parties are just too old to see a way forward.

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The Trump administration ramps up its attacks on higher education, specifically Harvard and foreign students.

But what does it mean to lose the tens of thousands of foreign students who attend American universities every year?

Grant breaks down how we got here, what the White House is doing, and how it will affect all of us.

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The 2024 election report card, or autopsy, depending on how you want to talk about it, for Democrats is out, and it is a failing grade almost across the board.

Democrats lost with practically every kind of voter from almost every walk of life except young, college-educated women. Grant breaks down what this new report tells us about where voters are and where the Democratic party is heading if nothing changes.

Then there's more bad news for Democrats as a separate poll finds people think of the Democratic party as weak, corrupt, and too liberal, while the party grapples with who is going to emerge as its next leader.

It will be a rocky 524 days to the next midterm election if you vote blue.

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Two weeks after Donald Trump announced he was going to lower drug prices from anywhere from 30% to 90%, there still haven't been any deals made.

But more than that, what he wants to do, something called Most Favored Nation status, is bad policy, especially when it comes to drug prices.

Grant is joined by Yale Economist Jason Abaluck to talk about why Trump's plan to lower drug prices won't lower them, might raise prices, could stifle medical innovation at home and abroad, and what that means for your next prescription.

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House Republicans pass Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," and there are some serious consequences hurtling toward Americans.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, while giving multi-millionaires huge tax breaks, sending the national debt and deficit skyrocketing.

Grant breaks it all down and talks about why the timeline of the vote, which literally put members of Congress to sleep, and the timeline of the new budget should make you ask, What are they trying to hide?

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The US Supreme Court hands the Trump Administration a big win by allowing it to end Temporary Protected status for 350,000 Venezuelans in the US.

It's a crucial part of more than a dozen immigrant communities across the country, impacting more than 800,000 people with TPS and their families.

The thing is, Venezuelan Americans voted for Trump in large numbers, campaigned for him, and supported his policies. So why end this program that's so popular with them?

Grant talks about why the Administration wants to do this, what it has to do with other Supreme Court cases, and what it means for us citizens and non-citizens, no matter your status.

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Former President Joe Biden announces he has advanced and aggressive prostate cancer. It's a devastating diagnosis, though one doctors say is treatable, despite his age.

The diagnosis is raising new questions about Biden's health during the end of his presidency and during his abandoned presidential campaign, especially as the Democratic party is in the middle of a brewing civil war over where the party needs to head next.

The former president's health announcement has also become a convenient cover for Republicans as they work to gut Medicaid and Medicare while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans.

Grant talks about all the reasons the Biden story is news but why it's not the most important health story out there right now.

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Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the Department of Justice has been equal parts reviled and remade by the White House. Much, if not most, of that damage has been done to the FBI and the department's civil rights initiatives that for the last half century have made sure schools are safe for kids, our workplaces were free from discrimination, that our votes mattered and we could vote, and that corporations follow the law.

But those things have been gutted and in some cases, shut down in all but name.

In this week's interview, Grant talks to Stacey Young. Young is a former DOJ lawyer of 18 years who left the department in January. Since then, she started the group The Justice Connection, which aims to help former DOJ employees fight back against an administration that's been weaponized against them.

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