Best of Lost Debate End of Year Special

George Santos [4:30]

Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction. (The New York Times, 12/19/22)
N.Y. Rep.-elect George Santos is being investigated for lying about his past (AP, 12/29/22)
Democrats call for probe into GOP congressman-elect’s biography (The Washington Post, 12/19/22)
Opinion: What Kevin McCarthy’s silence about George Santos reveals (CNN, 1/1/23)
How a Perfectly Normal New York Suburb Elected a Con Man (The Atlantic, 12/28/22)
Santos campaign finances show dozens of expenses just below FEC’s threshold to keep receipts (CNN, 12/21/22)
Here’s a list of NY Rep.-elect George Santos’ lies, deceptions and fabrications (The Gothamist, 12/29/22)
Scrutiny turns to George Santos’s campaign funding (The Hill, 12/31/22)
Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years (The Washington Post, 1/24/21)
The false and misleading claims President Biden made during his first 100 days in office (The Washington Post, 4/26/21)
What Happens to George Santos Now? (Slate, 12/27/22)
House Democrats calling on Santos to resign over resume lies silent on Biden’s long history of fabrications (Fox News, 12/29/22)
What Can the House Do to Address George Santos’s Falsehoods? (The New York Times, 12/29/22)
Inside McCarthy’s struggle to lock down the House speakership (CNN, 1/2/23)
We’ve Never Seen Congressional Resignations Like This Before (FiveThirtyEight, 1/29/18)

The Homeownership Society [25:15]

The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake (The Atlantic, 12/20)
Homeownership for All Is a Dying Dream (Wall Street Journal, 9/16)
Home Not-So-Sweet Home (New York Times, 6/23/2008)
Housebound: Why homeownership may be bad for America (The Atlantic, 12/2007)
A ‘Forgotten History’ Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America (NPR, 5/3/2017)

Snow Days [44:15]

Is Remote Learning Burying Snow Days? It Depends on Where You Live (The 74, 12/31/22)
I Will Teach You To Be Rich (Ramit Sethi)
The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)