3 chapters across the catalog
Alaska Mail-in Ballot Challenges and Dog Sled Logistics
NPR reports on the potential disenfranchisement of rural Alaskan and Native voters if the Supreme Court strikes down laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots. The report highlights the extreme logistics of voting in remote villages, which rely on dog sleds, snow machines, and bush planes to transport ballots across vast distances.
Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motsveld in Washington. The talks ended in a "fundamental disagreement," with Denmark refusing to sell the territory. Trump continues to cite a Danish intelligence report warning of Chinese military goals in the Arctic as justification for a US takeover.
One of the hosts recounts a personal experience dog mushing in Lapland, Finland. The anecdote describes the surprising speed of the huskies and the challenge of standing on the sled while shouting commands in Finnish.
