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This week on the VICE Podcast Reihan Salam sits down Nigerian-American journalist Dayo Olopade, to discuss her new book, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the VICE podcast Reihan Salam sits down with Melissa Gira Grant, an independent journalist who has been writing and reporting on the sex industry for the past ten years. Grant recently authored a book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, in which she calls for an overhaul in the way we think about sex work. Today, she chats with us about the history, the myths, and the criticisms of the sex industry and shares her perspective on how sex work is primarily about economic activity, and those who perform sexual labor shouldn't be criminalized or treated any differently than any other laborers trying to survive in our treacherous economic system. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robyn Doolittle is the author of Crazy Town--a new book chronicling the absurd political messiness that the city of Toronto has endured at the hands of their crack smoking mayor: Rob Ford. As one of three journalists to have seen the infamous crack video, Robyn has covered the Rob Ford story extensively for the Toronto Star; so we had our VICE Canada Managing Editor Patrick McGuire sit down with her to review the past few years of Toronto politics. From Rob's nearly constant gaffes and presumably drug-addled soundbites, to whether or not he can win the 2014 election, to Canada's restrictive freedom of information laws... it's a comprehensive chat. Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Anya Kamenetz, a Schwartz fellow at New America, journalist, and author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and the forthcoming The Test. Reihan has an in-depth discussion with Anya about the current state of higher education in America.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the VICE podcast, Reihan Salam moderates a debate regarding the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA documents to journalists about the NSA surveillance programs, the first of which were revealed last June in the Guardian.The guests today are Fred Kaplan, "War Stories" columnist for Slate and Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, who also serves as Snowden's chief legal advisor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with Jerry Brito, one of the leading experts on Bitcoin. Jerry is a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center and director of its Technology Policy Program. His research focuses on internet policy, copyright, and the regulatory process. Jerry was kind enough to walk us through the world of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency that now has a few imitators.Watch more VICE Podcasts here: http://bit.ly/VICE-PodcastsCheck out the VICE podcast on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/vice-media/id634513189?mt=2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.