10.8 | The ads already know

Thu » Is your phone listening? Maybe. But advertisers have other ways of knowing what you want.

Also: A new school-choice law has even some of its opponents figuring out how to make it work. Washington reverses course on power-plant emissions, while Mary Reichard asks Dennis Prager collaborator Joel Alperson where our sense of right and wrong comes from. Plus: a construction crew hires a kitten, and Daniel Suhr says the scariest thing about AI is losing the race.

EP 3504 · Thu Oct 8, 2026

☀️ Today’s stories

› Thursday morning news

› School choice: If you can’t beat it

› EPA regulations: Same law, different rules

› Targeted advertising: They already know

› Kicker: The new hire

› Feature: An inherited certainty

› Daniel Suhr: The other ticking clock

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