Post Reports

Republicans’ radical about-face on bailouts

19 Mar 2020

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Phil Rucker on how Republicans are throwing out the political playbook by supporting a massive bailout for the economy. Chris Rowland on the search fo...

Trump’s economic Hail Mary

18 Mar 2020

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Jeff Stein explains Trump’s plan to bail out companies hit hard by the coronavirus. Tony Romm on whether Silicon Valley and the White House could us...

Social distancing may be our only hope

17 Mar 2020

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Lena Sun clears up what “social distancing” means and why it’s important. William Wan explains why it’ll probably take months — not weeks —...

Will the coronavirus derail the Democratic primary?

16 Mar 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Elise Viebeck explains how the coronavirus could impact the presidential election. Andrew Freedman on why the coronavirus won’...

What went wrong with coronavirus testing in the U.S.

13 Mar 2020

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Neena Satija explains what went wrong with coronavirus testing in the United States. And Brady Dennis on the effect the outbreak is having on carbon e...

Trump's Europe travel ban causes confusion

12 Mar 2020

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Katie Zezima explains the new U.S. travel restrictions from Europe. Peter Whoriskey and Abha Bhattarai report on how paid sick leave, or lack thereof,...

Coronavirus is sparing children. No one knows why.

11 Mar 2020

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The WHO has declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. On today’s Post Reports, William Wan says the virus is sparing kids — and understanding wh...

Can we quarantine the economy?

10 Mar 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Chico Harlan with a dispatch from Italy after a country-wide lockdown goes into effect. Heather Long answers your questions abo...

The irony of Trump’s casual attitude toward coronavirus

09 Mar 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Toluse Olorunnipa on how the coronavirus is testing President Trump’s leadership. Susannah George and Missy Ryan on how Afgha...

The fight for the soul of America’s political parties

06 Mar 2020

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Political reporter Dan Balz on the ebb and flow of the two political parties and how much power they actually have. And Jada Yuan on whether celebrity...

And then there were two

05 Mar 2020

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Annie Linskey and Amber Phillips consider the end of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign and what it means for the delegates she won. Aaron Blake expla...

So ... Biden?

04 Mar 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Philip Bump talks through the Super Tuesday results and the narrowing field of Democratic candidates. Heather Long explains the...

Abortion in the age of a conservative Supreme Court

03 Mar 2020

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Caroline Kitchener on the abortion restriction being tested at the Supreme Court. William Wan on how the coronavirus epidemic could play out. And an i...

Super Tuesday, in 16 dispatches.

02 Mar 2020

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On Super Tuesday, more states hold contests to pick a presidential nominee, more voters have a chance to go to the polls and more delegates are allott...

Your questions about coronavirus, answered

28 Feb 2020

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Health reporters Lena H. Sun and Lenny Bernstein answer your questions about the coronavirus. Marian Liu talks about the discrimination Asian American...

What millennial voters care about in 2020

27 Feb 2020

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Eugene Scott describes the impact young voters may have on the presidential election. Drew Harwell on the psychological toll of Web-connected cameras....

The ‘radical feminists’ working against trans rights

26 Feb 2020

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Abha Bhattarai unpacks Walmart’s “Great Workplace” program, and why it means layoffs for workers. Samantha Schmidt on a strain of feminism that ...

Reparations, rebranded

25 Feb 2020

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Matt Viser and Lenny Bernstein on how an old field of candidates changes the norms around the presidency. Tracy Jan looks into Rep. James Clyburn’s ...

Mayors back Bloomberg’s bid

24 Feb 2020

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Fenit Nirappil asks why D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser supports Michael Bloomberg, even as he gets slammed by critics on race and gender issues. Joanna S...

Shopping under the influence

21 Feb 2020

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Shane Harris talks about the lingering threat of Russian election interference and how the administration is responding. Abha Bhattarai on a new gimmi...

Kids are using Trump’s words to bully their classmates

20 Feb 2020

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Michael Scherer on the heated Nevada Democratic debate. And John Woodrow Cox andHannah Natanson talk about how President Trump’s rhetoric has affect...

ICE is using therapy notes to deport young immigrants

19 Feb 2020

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Hannah Dreier on how Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses therapists’ notes to keep young immigrants detained. Damian Paletta discusses how the ...

The profane ‘wit and wisdom’ of Mike Bloomberg

18 Feb 2020

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Political investigative reporter Michael Kranish on Mike Bloomberg’s long history of alleged sexism and profanity. And Travis DeShong describes a ne...

The loves and scandals of President Harding

17 Feb 2020

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Steamy love letters. Jazz. Scandal. Psychics. Newspapers. The Hope Diamond.In this Presidents’ Day special from Post Reports, we revisit an episode ...

How a non-binary teen claimed their identity

14 Feb 2020

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Tara Bahrampour on what coming of age looks like for a non-binary teen. And, revisiting the wisdom of George Washington with historian Doris Kearns Go...

Coronavirus: An epidemic of misinformation

13 Feb 2020

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Kim Bellware on how disinformation about the coronavirus is spreading online. Danielle Paquette on the drawdown of Firestone’s factories in Liberia,...

The politicization of the Justice Department

12 Feb 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Matt Zapotosky reports on the fight for independence within the Justice Department after Attorney General William P. Barr inter...

The CIA’s ‘coup of the century’

11 Feb 2020

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Greg Miller on how governments all over the world got played by the CIA. Simon Denyer and Lenny Bernstein on the increasingly desperate situation aboa...

What Trump’s company charges the Secret Service

10 Feb 2020

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Eugene Scott weighs the stakes of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. David Fahrenthold reports on what Trump’s companies are charging the government...

‘Unshackled and unleashed’: Trump, post-acquittal

07 Feb 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Philip Rucker describes what the presidency could look like post-impeachment. And ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards, Sarah Has...

The race to find a cure for the coronavirus

06 Feb 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Anna Fifield describes the eerie emptiness that has taken hold across China under the threat of the coronavirus. David Lynch re...

Iowa and the future of election technology

05 Feb 2020

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Today on Post Reports: Tony Romm on the makers of the app that set back the results of the Iowa caucuses. Samantha Schmidt describes how sex education...

Inside the chaos of the Iowa caucuses

04 Feb 2020

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Today on Post Reports, Jenna Johnson explains the result delays at the Iowa caucuses. Juliet Eilperin fills us in on the many environmental policy cha...

The new targets of Trump’s travel ban

03 Feb 2020

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Today on Post Reports, national reporter Abigail Hauslohner outlines the expansion of President Trump’s travel ban. Beth Reinhard looks into how pre...

How do caucuses work, anyway?

01 Feb 2020

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Kayla Epstein explains the chaotic, confusing, bizarre process that is the Iowa caucuses. And political reporter Aaron Blake tells us how the GOP succ...

Is the White House ready for the new coronavirus?

31 Jan 2020

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Lena Sun and Yasmeen Abutaleb explain the dangers of the coronavirus outbreak. Amber Phillips talks about that moment with Rand Paul. And Michelle Ye ...

Majority of black Americans call Trump 'racist'

30 Jan 2020

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Aaron Blake says the debate over whether to call witnesses still hangs over the impeachment trial. Vanessa Williams reports on why 8 in 10 black Ameri...

Who’s paying for Trump’s lawyers?

28 Jan 2020

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As the president’s impeachment defense rests, Ann Marimow explains who is paying for his lawyers. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro tells The Pos...

The Bolton question hangs over impeachment trial

28 Jan 2020

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Today on Post Reports, political reporter Aaron Blake breaks down President Trump’s impeachment defense. Kyle Swenson explains the cluster of HIV ca...

What reparations mean to one American family

24 Jan 2020

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Today on Post Reports, business reporter Tracy Jan tells the story of one family for whom reparations mean more than money. Geoff Edgers explains the ...

‘Hello MBS.’ How the world’s richest man was hacked.

24 Jan 2020

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Amber Phillips tells us about the latest antics by the world’s greatest deliberative body: One senator read a book Thursday while one doodled throug...

Can Democrats keep impeachment spicy?

23 Jan 2020

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Amber Phillips on the opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial. Anna Fifield and Lena Sun on the rapidly spreading coronavirus. And David Fah...

The rules of engagement

22 Jan 2020

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Aaron Blake explains Tuesday’s Senate debate on the rules for Trump’s impeachment trial. Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig on their new book “A Ve...

A crumbling bridge and restorative justice

20 Jan 2020

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Robert Samuels on the opportunity black activists see in a city’s crumbling highway section. And DeNeen L. Brown tells the surprising story of how M...

The politics of hair for black women

17 Jan 2020

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s video about her battle with alopecia has renewed conversations around the politics of hair. Jena McGregor outlines the growin...

Trump, Giuliani and a guy called Lev

16 Jan 2020

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The Senate gavels in for the impeachment trial. Paul Sonne unpacks the latest evidence implicating President Trump in the Ukraine scandal. Drew Harwel...

What’s next in impeachment

15 Jan 2020

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Rosalind S. Helderman explains what’s happening with impeachment — and the new documents made public by House Democrats. Robert Costa on Bernie Sa...

A campaign with unlimited money

14 Jan 2020

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Michael Scherer on Mike Bloomberg’s campaign strategy. Shane Harris explains the administration’s conflicting rationales for the strike on Iran’...

Women in the workforce: ‘I’m back, baby!’

13 Jan 2020

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Rachel Siegel reports women outnumber men in the U.S. workforce for just the second time. Moriah Balingit on how a book-burning at Georgia Southern ig...

Selective memory: The U.S. and Iran

10 Jan 2020

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Jason Rezaian contextualizes the current relationship between the United States and Iran and describes what leaders can illuminate from the past about...

Australia burning

09 Jan 2020

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Kate Shuttleworth and Sarah Kaplan on the wildfires ravaging Australia. Colby Itkowitz breaks down how President Trump has reshaped the most important...

Trump: ‘Iran appears to be standing down’

08 Jan 2020

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Ishaan Tharoor unpacks the White House response to attacks from Iran. Paul Kane reports from the chambers of the least deliberative Senate in modern h...

Impeachment trial? What impeachment trial?

07 Jan 2020

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Mike DeBonis explains the impeachment trial’s delay. Liz Sly unravels the fraught history of U.S.-Iraq relations. And Kayla Epstein assuages young p...

Inside the plan to kill Soleimani

06 Jan 2020

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Shane Harris explains how Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shaped the decision to kill a top Iranian military commander. Phil Rucker describes President...

What Iran’s ‘severe revenge’ vow means for the U.S.

03 Jan 2020

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Missy Ryan examines the fallout of a U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Plus, Sebastian Smee describes the stunnin...

What’s in and out for 2020

02 Jan 2020

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The Washington Post’s annual guide to what’s out from 2019 and what’s in for 2020. And, how gender bias in science also affects lab rats.

Black women on race and genre

31 Dec 2019

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Martine Powers talks with N.K. Jemisin, Jasmine Guillory and Lauren Wilkinson about challenging narrow perceptions of race in literary genres. And Bil...

A tale of two billionaires: Trump and Bloomberg

30 Dec 2019

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Michael Kranish dives into the tumultuous relationship between President Trump and Mike Bloomberg. Plus: Robin Givhan remembers a bombastic legend of ...

How the ’60s’ most disastrous concert turned deadly

27 Dec 2019

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Altamont 1969 was meant to be the Woodstock of the West. Eyewitnesses recount how this free concert turned into a deadly disaster.

How the ’60s’ most disastrous concert came to be

26 Dec 2019

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It was meant to be the Woodstock of the West, but it was chaos. How the free rock concert in Altamont, Calif., 50 years ago came to be.

Fashion in the age of climate change

24 Dec 2019

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Robin Givhan considers whether it’s possible to dress fashionably and ethically. Caitlin Gibson and Monica Hesse take a day to watch every film adap...

The rise of the ‘zombie mall’

23 Dec 2019

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Abha Bhattarai explains why most shopping malls are on the decline — and why a few are thriving. Maggie Penman on making sobriety hip. Plus, Lauren ...

What sex trafficking in the U.S. actually looks like

20 Dec 2019

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Jessica Contrera unpacks a legal case challenging how courts understand sexual violence. And Moriah Balingit describes the plight of educators using t...

What comes next in impeachment

19 Dec 2019

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Amber Phillips previews the Senate’s impeachment trial next month. Griff Witte on why red states are choosing to welcome more refugees. And Sarah Ha...

The impeachment of President Trump

19 Dec 2019

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Mike DeBonis, Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane take the temperature of Capitol Hill. And Aaron Blake breaks down the partisan debate that led to the impeac...

Voices from the war in Afghanistan

17 Dec 2019

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People who experienced the war in Afghanistan respond to uncovered documents and secret audio recordings. Juliet Eilperin on the drilling effort divid...

The racial reckoning of Pete Buttigieg

16 Dec 2019

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William Booth on what Boris Johnson’s sweeping majority means for Brexit. Robert Samuels on Pete Buttigieg’s often clumsy attempts to understand t...

Selling treatments to incurable diseases

13 Dec 2019

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Rhonda Colvin on the Judiciary Committee vote to advance impeachment articles. Laurie McGinley and William Wan explain how clinics are profiting by se...

Who’s losing out in the automated economy? Women.

12 Dec 2019

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Heather Long on how older women are being left behind in the new automated economy. Reed Albergotti investigates unwanted sexual behavior on iPhone ch...

The fight over the FBI’s Russia probe

11 Dec 2019

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Matt Zapotosky on the fight over the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Kevin Sieff on the cycle of debt for migrants. Plus, Lena Felton exp...

The Democrats’ case against President Trump

10 Dec 2019

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Aaron Blake explains House Democrats’ articles of impeachment. Darryl Fears on the disease threatening Florida’s citrus crop. And Hawken Miller on...

The Afghanistan Papers

09 Dec 2019

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After a three-year legal battle, The Post obtains hundreds of records of candid interviews assessing the war in Afghanistan and its failures.Read the ...

The fight for a gender-neutral Spanish

06 Dec 2019

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Samantha Schmidt talks to the Argentine teens promoting a more inclusive Spanish. And Kevin Sieff reports from a squalid tent city in Matamoros, Mexic...

Can Boris Johnson keep his seat?

05 Dec 2019

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William Booth lays out the factors shaping Britain’s upcoming general election. Ovetta Wiggins on the legal and media battle that won five prison ex...

The NBA star courting Congress on Turkey

04 Dec 2019

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Shane Harris interprets the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report. Jacob Bogage explains why lawmakers are lining up to back NBA player ...

How the Mueller investigation led Giuliani to Ukraine

03 Dec 2019

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Rosalind S. Helderman traces the origin of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s involvement in Ukraine. Eugene Scott on the end of Sen. Kamala Harris’s president...

The human cost of food delivery in China

02 Dec 2019

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Mike DeBonis unpacks the White House’s strategy as the impeachment inquiry unfolds. Gerry Shih describes the human toll of the food delivery industr...

How a black activist managed to take over a neo-Nazi group

29 Nov 2019

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Katie Mettler unpacks the complicated life of black activist James Stern and how he came to take control of Jeff Schoep’s neo-Nazi National Socialis...

What’s stalling the self-driving car revolution

27 Nov 2019

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Faiz Siddiqui explains the engineering challenge behind training self-driving cars. Madhulika Sikka shares the story of an author and filmmaker excava...

Trump touts law freeing inmates. But the Justice Department wants them behind bars.

26 Nov 2019

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Neena Satija on the tensions underlying a major piece of criminal justice legislation. Amber Phillips outlines what comes next in the impeachment proc...

How crib bumpers have paralyzed a U.S. consumer regulation agency

25 Nov 2019

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Michael Scherer with a look into how Mike Bloomberg’s wealth could influence the 2020 race. Todd Frankel reports on an agency struggling with an int...

They escaped China’s crackdown. Now, they wait.

22 Nov 2019

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Emily Rauhala tracks the plight of a Uighur family that escaped internment in western China. And Michael Ruane describes a newly digitized wealth of r...

Two weeks. Seven hearings. Now what?

21 Nov 2019

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Shane Harris recaps the second week of public impeachment hearings. Jay Greene examines the vast counterfeit-product market on Amazon.

A race to stand out before Democratic field thins

21 Nov 2019

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Political reporters Michael Scherer, Annie Linskey and Cleve Wootson break down key moments from Wednesday’s Democratic primary debate in Atlanta.

‘Was there a "quid pro quo"? … The answer is yes.’

20 Nov 2019

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Shane Harris unpacks Ambassador Gordon Sondland’s public testimony. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on where he sees the party goin...

The call that sparked the whistleblower complaint

19 Nov 2019

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Shane Harris and Lisa Rein share what another day of public impeachment hearings revealed. Mary Beth Sheridan connects the political crises unfolding ...

The free-for-all over Medicare-for-all

18 Nov 2019

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Jeff Stein describes how Medicare-for-all would work. Rachel Siegel explains what President Trump’s trade war is doing to lobster fishing towns in M...

As Yovanovitch testifies, Trump attacks her on Twitter

15 Nov 2019

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Shane Harris on how Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony prompted accusations of witness intimidation. Elahe Izadi describes how comedian Jenny Slate works...

Late to the party: Even more Democrats enter the race for 2020

14 Nov 2019

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Matt Viser on late entries into the 2020 race. Neena Satija investigates the policies that ensnared child migrants in a bureaucratic nightmare. And au...

The public impeachment inquiry hearings: Day One

13 Nov 2019

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Shane Harris explains what we learned on the first day of the impeachment inquiry’s public phase. Shibani Mahtani on a flashpoint in Hong Kong.

America’s new ‘progressive prosecutors’ are getting pushback

12 Nov 2019

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Mark Berman on the reality facing “progressive prosecutors.” Amber Phillips looks into Wednesday’s key witnesses: William B. Taylor and George K...

The impeachment inquiry finally goes public

11 Nov 2019

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Paul Kane previews the next stage of the impeachment inquiry. Annie Gowen on the ongoing mental health crisis facing America’s farmers. Plus, Laura ...

How Pete Buttigieg plans to diversify his base

08 Nov 2019

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg lays out his plan to capture broader appeal. And Tara Bahrampour on a 94-year-old woman who wanted to leave lif...

The future of a drug company blamed for helping fuel the opioid crisis

07 Nov 2019

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Chris Rowland explains why one of the companies accused of fueling the opioid epidemic is declaring bankruptcy. Griff Witte looks at why Republican le...

What Tuesday’s election results could mean for 2020

06 Nov 2019

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Robert Costa with the major takeaways from Tuesday’s elections. Abby Ohlheiser explains how a tracking app is transforming parent-child relationship...

The Texas teenagers who allegedly smuggled immigrants across the southern border

05 Nov 2019

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Karoun Demirjian on what we’ve learned from the impeachment inquiry transcripts released this week. Maria Sacchetti on the role U.S. citizens play i...

Guns in the gym: The NRA’s charity arm raffles off weapons in American schools

04 Nov 2019

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Beth Reinhard on why the NRA is raffling off guns in American schools. Jason Rezaian examines Iran’s history of hostage-taking. And Joel Achenbach c...

Restoring Afghanistan’s lost era of film

01 Nov 2019

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Siobhán O’Grady visits the archivists restoring film reels hidden during the Taliban era. And Peter Finn explains how an adventure-seeking socialit...

The Canadian islands crumbling into the sea

31 Oct 2019

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Brady Dennis examines the effect of climate change on Canadian islands. Karen DeYoung clarifies the complicated U.S.-Turkey relationship. Maura Judkis...

A California utility that cut off power to curb wildfires may have caused them

31 Oct 2019

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Douglas MacMillan reports on a utility’s controversial plan to prevent California wildfires. Heather Long explains why the deficit is ballooning und...