Texas Standard for November 17, 2016
Oreos, Netflix, New Balance, Amazon: Consumer boycotts as a proxy for the ballot box. But who’s buying it – and do they work? Also: He campaigned to repeal and replace Obamacare – but what would Trumpcare mean for Texans? We’ll look at the range of possibilities. Plus: The changing of the guard in Washington could leave a few holes in Texas politics. Who will fill the seats, and how? Also: Did he really sell his soul to the devil? As San Antonio prepares to celebrate an iconic bluesman, a few myths get broken along the way. And the robots are coming: Whose jobs will they take? Those stories and a whole lot more, today on the Texas Standard:

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