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This week Erin and Radha regroup while Loren takes a much-deserved vacation.\\xa0They do a quick review on COVID-19 with the good (100 days no new cases in New Zealand), the bad (cases in Brazil, India, and the United States continue to grow), and the ugly (long-term economic consequences in the United States, India, and Brazil). They also dig into the recent explosion and protests in Lebanon and then go deep on the recent executive order impacting TikTok and WeChat.\\xa0After reminding us that Afghanistan is still a thing, they talk about the lack of accurate and comprehensive briefings for POTUS and the mayhem that ensues,\\xa0including quotes (and misquotes) by Robert O\'brien (yes, he\'s the national security advisor!). To calm us all down, they then talk about pop culture from baseball movies (The Rookie, Bull Durham) to Arthurian legend-ish TV shows (Cursed).

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Links

• Abbie Cheeseman, \\u201cProtesters in Beirut, Still Reeling from Massive Explosion, Cash with Police,\\u201d NBC News, August 09, 2020
• Elian Peltier, \\u201cHow to Help Lebanon After Beirut Explosion,\\u201d New York Times, August 05, 2020
• Dennis Wagner and George Petras, \\u201cMassive Explosion Rocks Beirut: Before and After Images Show Extensive Damage,\\u201d USA Today, August 06, 2020
• Nick Perry, \\u201cNew Zealand Marks 100^th Day with No New Reported Cases of Coronavirus,\\u201d ABC7NY, August 09, 2020
• Derek Hawkins, Marisa Iati, and Jacqueline Dupree, \\u201cUS Coronavirus Infections Surpass 5 Million,\\u201d Washington Post, August 09, 2020
• \\u201cCoronavirus: Brazil Passes 100,000 Deaths as Outbreak Shows No Sign of Easing,\\u201d BBC, August 09, 2020
• \\u201cRecord 64,399 New Covid-19 Cases; 861 Deaths in India,\\u201d Times of India, August 09, 2020
• Elaine Chen, \\u201cDrugmakers Race to Build Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Chains,\\u201d Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2020
• Michael Crescione, \\u201cEurope Sees Rise in Covid-19 After Reopening,\\u201d Healthline, August 06, 2020
• Swati Bhat, \\u201cIndia to Halt 101 Military Imports in Push for Defense Self-Reliance: Minister,\\u201d Reuters, August 09, 2020
• Ryan Browne and Jamie Crawford, \\u201cEsper Says US Troop Levels in Afghanistan to Go Below 5,000 by End of November,\\u201d CNN, August 09, 2020
• Brad Heath, \\u201cEsper: US Will Cut Troop Levels in Afghanistan to Less Than 5,000,\\u201d Reuters, August 08, 2020
• Jim Sciutto, \\u201cTrump Advisers Hesitated to Give Military Options and Warned Adversaries Over Fears He Might Start a War,\\u201d CNN, August 06, 2020
• Justine Coleman, \\u201cTrump Advisers Were Wary of Talking Military Options Over Fears He\\u2019d Accidentally Start War,\\u201d The Hill, August 06, 2020
• Philip Bump, \\u201cTrump Actually Doesn\\u2019t Appear to Understand How Bad the Pandemic Is,\\u201d Washington Post, August 04, 2020
• Geoffrey Gertz, \\u201cWhy is the Trump Administration Banning TikTok and WeChat?\\u201d Brookings, August 07, 2020
• Robert Chesney, \\u201cBanning TikTok and WeChat: Another Primer,\\u201d Lawfare, August 07, 2020
• Chaim Gartenberg, \\u201cApple\\u2019s Chinese Business Could be Devastated by Trump\\u2019s WeChat Ban,\\u201d The Verge, August 08, 2020
• \\u201cTrump Targets WeChat and TikTok, in Sharp Escalation with China,\\u201d New York Times, August 06, 2020