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100 Days In Trump’s America 2.0

Tue, 29 Apr 2025

We made it, ya’ll. One hundred days of President Donald Trump’s second term down. Only 1,362 to ...

Why Some Migrants Say They'll Self-Deport

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

The Trump administration's relentless assault on immigrants keeps marching on. Over the weekend, fed...

Job Cuts Come For the State Department

Fri, 25 Apr 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent part of his Thursday gilding President Donald Trump's lily, say...

Will Trump Abandon Ukraine?

Thu, 24 Apr 2025

The Trump administration is putting pressure on Ukraine to accept a U.S.-backed peace plan with Russ...

MAGA Baby Bucks

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

MAGA is in full-on panic mode about the declining birth rate in the U.S., and so the doors of the We...

A Week of Big Cases At SCOTUS

Tue, 22 Apr 2025

It's a busy week at the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, the justices heard oral arguments in yet anot...

America At A Tipping Point

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump still hasn’t hit the 100-day mark of his second term, but it feels like the...

How Trump’s Shredding Green Regulations

Fri, 18 Apr 2025

The Trump administration is running through our constitutional rights like a bull unleashed on the s...

Dems Go To Bat For Due Process

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador Wednesday to push for the release ...

How RFK Jr. Has Already Reshaped Public Health

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking his “Make America Healthy Agai...

Trump's Deportation Standoff Keeps Getting Worse

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office Monday. The...

We Went To The 'Fighting Oligarchy' Rally

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

Congress is out of session this week. Democrats are keeping busy with planned town hall events in re...

House Republicans Pass Big Beautiful Bill feat. Rep. Ro Khanna

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

If you’re not feeling better after President Donald Trump paused the largest of his previously pla...

Trump: Now You Tariff… Now You Don’t

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

When most of us woke up Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump was still very excited about the t...

Supreme Court Gives Trump What He Wants... For Now

Wed, 9 Apr 2025

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration three successive wins this week, albeit temporary ...

Trump’s Market Meltdown… And Your Wallet

Tue, 8 Apr 2025

The stock market continued to have a not very good time Monday as a result of President Donald Trump...

Massive Crowds Tell Trump 'Hands Off' My Government

Mon, 7 Apr 2025

Hundreds of thousands people across the country spent part of their Saturday at ‘Hands Off’ rall...

Trump Tariffies The Markets

Fri, 4 Apr 2025

If Wednesday was ‘Liberation Day’ in America, then Thursday was its day of reckoning, as the rea...

Trump Launches Tariff-Palooza

Thu, 3 Apr 2025

Wednesday was ‘Liberation Day’ in Trump’s America. For everyone else, it was a day of sheer ec...

Why Planned Parenthood Is Back In Front Of SCOTUS

Wed, 2 Apr 2025

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in a big case about healthcare access an...

Trump's TBD Tariffs

Tue, 1 Apr 2025

Economists, Wall Street traders — really, anyone who has a stake in the health of the U.S. economy...

Musk Throws Millions Into Wisc. Supreme Court Race

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Wisconsin voters will head to the polls Tuesday (if they haven’t already) to choose a new member o...

Is Any Immigrant Safe In Trump's America?

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

The Trump administration spends a lot of time trumpeting all the ways it’s cracking down on immigr...

Trump’s Next Chat Scandal: The Coverup

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

The Atlantic published the entire Signal conversation centered on strikes on Houthi militants in Yem...

This Group Chat Should Have Been An Email feat. Sen. Mark Warner

Wed, 26 Mar 2025

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were on Capitol Hill...

Sec. Pete Hegseth Is In My DMs

Tue, 25 Mar 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has been busy since assuming office earlier...

Trump Wants To Be King

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

In just about two months, President Donald Trump has managed to thoroughly shake U.S. democratic str...

The Miseducation Of Donald Trump feat. Former Sec. Arne Duncan

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to officially start shutting down the Depa...

The Trump Administration's All-Out Assault On Judges

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

Are we in a constitutional crisis? That’s the big question on the minds of legal experts across th...

Trump Sows Chaos Abroad

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

Tuesday was a big day in foreign policy news. Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes on Gaza Monday...

Trump’s Law-Bending Attack on Migrants

Tue, 18 Mar 2025

In both court and in interviews Monday, the Trump administration doubled down on its decision over t...

Dems: Chuck's Not Like Us

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

While Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer may have kept the U.S. government from shutting down last...

Is Bipartisanship Dead? feat. Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

It’s shutdown day in America, with lawmakers facing a midnight deadline to pass a government fundi...

Are We At Risk Of Another Pandemic?

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

It’s a rough time for people who worry about infectious diseases. A new study shows bird flu is mo...

Every Child Left Behind feat. Sec. John King

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

The Department of Education announced Tuesday it would lay off around 1,300 employees, or about half...

The Many Legal Fights Facing Dem AGs

Tue, 11 Mar 2025

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therap...

Trump, Musk, The Shutdown — And You

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

Will the government shut down this week? That's the big question rocking Washington right now. House...

How States Can Fight Trump feat. NY Gov. Kathy Hochul

Fri, 7 Mar 2025

Dozens of Democratic governors across the country are facing a nearly impossible task: Manage the da...

Will The Supreme Court Stop Trump?

Thu, 6 Mar 2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt one of its first blows to President Donald Trump’s aggressive...

Trump's Rambling Speech

Wed, 5 Mar 2025

President Donald Trump gave his first speech to the American people since taking office Tuesday nigh...

Dems Ditch Trump’s Yap Flap

Tue, 4 Mar 2025

Tonight, President Trump will give his first major address to the nation since the inauguration of h...

In Trump vs. Zelenskyy, Putin Wins

Mon, 3 Mar 2025

European leaders met for an emergency summit in London Sunday to shore up support for Ukraine and wr...

Why The Oscars “Never Get It Right”

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

WAD is taking a break from the daily horror show that is political news to talk about the scandals p...

Billionaire Tax Club

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Tax season is upon us, with millions of Americans preparing to file lots of complicated paperwork wi...

Are Democrats Really Powerless?

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

Right now, it feels like President Donald Trump and billionaire ‘first buddy’ Elon Musk are hold...

Will Republicans Slash Medicaid?

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

As House Republicans prepare to begin voting on their big policy blueprint this week, one of the pro...

Is The Alt-Right Even 'Alt' Anymore?

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, wrapped up Saturday. While billionaire Elon M...

The True Cost Of USAID Cuts

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Thursday marked one month since President Donald Trump officially took office. Since then, he’s si...

What Happens If The U.S. Sells Out Ukraine

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traded public barbs on Wednesday,...

Trump And The Threat To The Media

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump has a problem with journalists, particularly those who do or say things he do...

Will U.S. Public Schools Survive Trump?

Tue, 18 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he wants to end the Department of Education a...

Trump’s Dept. of Just Us

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

The Justice Department is in turmoil after more than half a dozen federal prosecutors resigned rathe...

Dem Attorneys General Take On Trump

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

Democratic state attorneys general have been a major thorn in President Donald Trump's side since he...

Inflation Is Up Again. What Does That Mean For Your Wallet?

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

Inflation rose more than expected in January according to federal data released Wednesday, as the co...

How VP Vance Uses Catholicism To Justify Mass Deportations

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

More than two dozen Christian and Jewish organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday over it...

Why Trump Wants To Shutter The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Tue, 11 Feb 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has become the latest federal agency in the Trump administr...

Trump vs. The Constitution

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

We're three weeks into President Donald Trump's second term, and already Democratic lawmakers are wa...

What Will Be Left Of USAID?

Fri, 7 Feb 2025

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development continued Thursday. Multiple news o...

Is This An 'Administrative Coup'?

Thu, 6 Feb 2025

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has seemingly been waging a personal war on the federal govern...

Trump Says the US Should 'Take Over the Gaza Strip'

Wed, 5 Feb 2025

We’re a little over two weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, and already his foreign...

Trump's Tariff Showdown

Tue, 4 Feb 2025

As of Monday evening, President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on hold f...

Trump Declares War On Trans Service Members

Mon, 3 Feb 2025

Thousands of trans people serving in the armed forces are worried that their careers are in real per...

Trump Blames Fatal Potomac Crash On Dems, DEI feat. Rep. Jamie Raskin

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army helicopter on a routine training fligh...

Is ICE Only Arresting Criminal Migrants?

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act, a new law that requires law enforcem...

Can Trump Just Pause Federal Funds?

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

A federal judge late Tuesday paused a sweeping order from the Trump administration to temporarily fr...

Public Health Scrambles To Figure Out Trump's Health Orders

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

The Trump administration late Sunday ordered federal health officials to stop working with the World...

Trump Targets DEI in Public and Private Sectors

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

President Donald Trump fired up his social media account Sunday to say the U.S. would immediately sl...

Trump Gangs Up On The Cartels

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

President Donald Trump was dealt his first major legal blow since returning to the White House when ...

Trump's Jan 6 Pardons Re-Energize Far-Right Groups

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

It’s been a couple of days since President Donald Trump granted clemency to all of his nearly 1,60...

Trump Targets Immigrants

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

In one of his first acts back in the White House, President Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive...

Trump: Here We Go Again

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

Donald Trump is President of the United States. Again. His inaugural address Tuesday wasn’t quite ...

Trump Returns to the White House

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

Today is Inauguration Day in DC. As of around noon ET, we will officially be living under a Donald T...

Bye Bye, Biden

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

Joe Biden’s presidency officially ends at noon on Monday, when Donald Trump is sworn in... again. ...

Breaking Down The Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

Negotiators announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas had reached a temporary ceasefire deal to paus...

Hegseth’s Sham Hearing

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, faced tough questions — a...

Let The Senate Confirmation Hearings Begin

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

Around a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are headed to Capitol Hill this wee...

TikTok Is Still On The Chopping Block

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

After months of delays, New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan finally sentenced presiden...

While LA Burns, Trump Fuels The Disinformation Fire

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

The Palisades and Eaton fires that began Tuesday in and around Los Angeles have become some of the m...

Los Angeles Is On Fire

Thu, 9 Jan 2025

The Los Angeles area is battling massive fires. At least five people have died, and more than 2,000 ...

Meta’s MAGA Moment

Wed, 8 Jan 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that the company plans to end its fact-checking program a...

Congress Ain’t Gettin’ Any Younger, Folks

Tue, 7 Jan 2025

Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump’s victory Monday, exactly four years after he deni...

What Trump's Win Means for Jan 6 Rioters

Mon, 6 Jan 2025

Congress is set to certify President-elect Donald Trump's victory today, on the four-year anniversar...

The New Jersey Drones Mass Delusion, Explained

Sat, 21 Dec 2024

Something mysterious has been going down in New Jersey this week…but it’s NOT drones. It’s tha...

House Republicans ClusterMusk

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

House Republicans on Thursday failed to pass their backup plan to fund the government temporarily. T...

Abortion in Trump's America

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a case over South Carolina’s effort to defund Planne...

Media Braces For Trump's Revenge

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

President-elect Donald Trump made good on his promise late Monday to sue The Des Moines Register, th...

Will Senators Let A Vaccine Skeptic Run Public Health?

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started making the rounds on Capitol Hill Monday to lobby Senators on his nomi...

Biden Puts His Stamp On Federal Courts

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are expected to score a big win this week. If all goes to p...

What Happens When Rebels Take Over Your Country?

Sat, 14 Dec 2024

It’s been a week since Syrian rebels overtook the country’s capital and forced out the longtime ...

What Praising The UnitedHealthcare Shooter Says About America

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has sparked a massive reaction online that’s vee...

How Senate Dems Can Fight feat Sen. Tammy Baldwin

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

We are just 39 days away from President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration. But Democrats are still t...

Biden’s Unresolved Conflicts

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

It’s a tense time in international politics right now. And it’s coming at a pretty tough time fo...

Is TikTok Doomed?

Tue, 10 Dec 2024

TikTok’s days in the U.S. may be numbered after a federal appeals court upheld a federal law late ...

How Rebels Gained Control of Syria

Mon, 9 Dec 2024

President-elect Donald Trump stopped by 'Meet the Press' on Sunday for his first network sit-down in...

Can the Trump Administration Undo the Sexual Revolution?

Sat, 7 Dec 2024

Trump’s rhetoric glorifies an America where men are in charge and women are subjugated. Rights tha...

Will Senate Stymie Trump feat. Sen. Jacky Rosen

Fri, 6 Dec 2024

There are only two weeks left for the 118th Congress to legislate. And there’s a lot to do. Lawmak...

Trump’s DoD Pick Scrambles To Salvage His Nomination

Thu, 5 Dec 2024

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to meet with senators, trying to sal...

Will Supreme Court Uphold A Trans Youth Healthcare Ban?

Wed, 4 Dec 2024

The Supreme Court will hear a landmark case over trans rights today. In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the justic...

What Trump's Pick Means For The Future Of The FBI

Tue, 3 Dec 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s picks to staff his next administration have been…questionable. Hi...

Does Trump Need To Keep His Promises To Keep His Voters?

Mon, 2 Dec 2024

With fewer than 50 days until Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump spent the long holiday ...

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams: Plotting Our Way Forward by Looking Back at History

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

The What A Day team is off this week, but we're excited to share an episode of Assembly Required wit...

Stacey Abrams on America's Food Insecurity Crisis

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and many of us will celebrate with full tables. B...

Trump's Cabinet, A Hodge-Podge Of Loyalists

Tue, 26 Nov 2024

It’s been just three weeks since the election, and President-elect Donald Trump has already named ...

Can Trump Deport Millions Of People?

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to declare a national emergency – and maybe even use th...

How Sexual Misconduct Became Part of the MAGA Cause

Sat, 23 Nov 2024

If there’s something that many of Trump’s cabinet nominees have in common, it is being credibly ...

Bye bye, Gaetz. Hello, Attorney General Pam Bondi

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

In news that was somehow both genuinely surprising and 100 percent predictable, former Florida Rep. ...

Can Trump Really Bypass Senate To Fill His Cabinet?

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

The reality show that is President-elect Donald Trump’s White House appointments keeps on rolling....

1,000 Days of War In Ukraine

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Tuesday marked 1,000 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, plunging the European continen...

Trump's Plan To Make Us Pay More

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

President-elect Donald Trump made a lot of questionable promises on the campaign trail. But one of t...

ACLU Ready To Fight

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

In 2016, Donald Trump’s presidential win came as a surprise to many people, which inspired resista...

What Are the Symptoms of a Dictatorship?

Sat, 16 Nov 2024

Trump would love to be a dictator. His affinity for strongmen like Victor Orbán and Vladimir Putin ...

Trump’s Dr. Brainworm

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Republicans clinched a governing trifecta late Wednesday after a handful of congressional race calls...

Matt Gaetz, Future AG?

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

The Trump cabinet pageant continues! And we’re all about to find out which of the judges – aka o...

Tech Bros Tasked With Gutting Government

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

President-elect Donald Trump announced more appointments on Tuesday, giving us a fuller picture of w...

Trump Loyalists Get Cabinet Prizes

Tue, 12 Nov 2024

The incoming Trump Administration 2.0 is starting to take shape. And as expected, it’s a Democrat’...

GOP Sees Limit To Trump's Popularity

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

We’re starting to get a fuller picture of what the incoming Congress is going to look like under P...

What the 2024 Voter Breakdown Reveals About America

Sat, 9 Nov 2024

Trump won over America by securing electoral votes in all seven swing states and gaining ground in h...

Democratic Soul Searching feat. Jon Favreau

Fri, 8 Nov 2024

President Joe Biden addressed the nation Thursday for the first time since Election Day. He promised...

VP Harris: 'Time To Roll Up Our Sleeves'

Thu, 7 Nov 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris officially conceded to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday in her...

Trump Declares Victory

Wed, 6 Nov 2024

Welp. That happened. Former President Donald Trump declared victory in the presidential race in the ...

The Final Countdown

Tue, 5 Nov 2024

Happy Election Day! Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump spent their final...

A Polling Surprise Feat. Nate Silver

Mon, 4 Nov 2024

Election Day is tomorrow! More than 75 million people have already voted. And a slew of new polls re...

The Far-Right War for Trump's 2025 Agenda

Sat, 2 Nov 2024

If Trump wins the presidential election, Project 2025 gives us an inkling of what his next term migh...

Do Something! Get Out And Vote!

Fri, 1 Nov 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump spent their Thursdays courting voters...

Trump Slings More Garbage

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, Major Puerto Ri...

Harris Delivers Closing Argument in Washington, D.C.

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing arguments in a speech at the Ellipse in Washingto...

Trump’s MSG Fallout + A Conversation with a Ga. Poll Worker

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

With one week left until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris plans to deliver her closing arg...

Harris' A-List Surrogates Take Center Stage

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Former President Donald Trump made his closing pitch to voters Sunday at a rally at Madison Square G...

Are The Polls Wrong...Again?

Sat, 26 Oct 2024

Trump is winning the presidential race according to some polls. But others say Harris is ahead. What...

Trump Could Lose, But Still Be In Power

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are preparing to make their closing p...

VP Harris Says She Thinks Trump's A Fascist

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

Last night, Vice President Kamala Harris was in the Philadelphia suburbs for a CNN Town Hall with An...

Harris Campaign Ready For Post-Election Legal Battles

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Roughly 20 million people have already voted in the upcoming election, either by mail or in person. ...

Elon Musk's Pay-To-Play Scheme To Get Trump Elected

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

It's officially two weeks until Election Day, and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants you to vote —...

Trump Serves Up Fries And Lies At McDonald’s

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

In-person early voting kicked off this weekend in Nevada, one of the key swing states that will deci...

How Hurricanes Blow Home Prices Through the Roof

Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Buying a home is already so expensive in America, but climate change is poised to make it much worse...

Bill Nye, the Science Guy On "The Most Critical Election, Ever"

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

In the aftermath of increasingly destructive natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton, po...

Trump Is Losing With Ladies

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

Polls have shown that former President Donald Trump is increasingly weak when it comes to support fr...

Latinos Are "Defecting" From Democratic Party feat. Paola Ramos

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

In a Presidential race that will be decided on the margins – there’s evidence that Vice Presiden...

Harris's Working Class Messaging Finds Union Support

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are working hard to earn the support ...

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin Says She And Dems Can Win The 'Blue Wall'

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will spend this week barnstorming through...

Why is Jill Stein Trying to Get Trump Elected?

Sat, 12 Oct 2024

Jill Stein may not be polling high, but in several states she’s poised to bring in more votes than...

Politicians Are Fighting Weather Conspiracies

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

People in Florida are assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Milton. The storm made landfall late ...

Dispatches From Hurricane Milton Evacuees

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. I...

Hurricane Milton Set To Make Landfall

Wed, 9 Oct 2024

In Texas, Democratic Congressman Colin Allred is making Republican Ted Cruz work hard to keep his Se...

Supreme Court To Take Up Trans Rights, Ghost Guns in New Term

Tue, 8 Oct 2024

The Supreme Court kicked off its new term Monday by opting not take up two cases that could have maj...

Trump, Musk Go “Dark MAGA” During Rally at Site of First Assassination Attempt

Mon, 7 Oct 2024

Donald Trump rallied with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, at the sa...

How Iran and Israel Became Enemies

Sat, 5 Oct 2024

Iran launched ballistic missiles at Israel this week, in the latest escalation between the two Middl...

How Democrats Could Win The House

Fri, 4 Oct 2024

While Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are vying for the White House, ...

Widening Mid East Conflict Puts Pressure on Biden, Upcoming Election

Thu, 3 Oct 2024

Fighting in the Middle East between Israel, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and Iran dramatic...

VP Debate: Vance and Walz Agree to Disagree?

Wed, 2 Oct 2024

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance met Tuesday for the first and only vice presidentia...

Trump Plays Politics With Hurricane Helene

Tue, 1 Oct 2024

The death toll from Hurricane Helene topped more than 120 people on Monday across six states in the ...

North Carolinians Flee Floodwaters

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Huge swaths of the Southeast are still digging out from Hurricane Helene after the storm made landfa...

The Plastic Recycling Long Con

Sat, 28 Sep 2024

The California Attorney General sued Exxon Mobil this week for misleading the public on the sustaina...

The WNBA's Culture Wars

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Federal officials on Thursday unsealed an inducement charging New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a ...

Harris Rolls Out Her "Opportunity Economy" Plan ( feat. Kara Swisher)

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris laid out what she called her “pragmatic” approach to growing the ec...

Israel, Hezbollah Conflict Risks Bigger Regional War

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

In his final address to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, President Joe Biden reflected on his fore...

How To Survive Poll Whiplash (with Jon Lovett)

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Let’s talk about polling! A bunch of new polls have us feeling a whole lot of feelings right now. ...

Harris Agrees to 2nd Debate, Trump Makes Excuses

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

A slew of new polls shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a slim lead over former President Trump ...

Why Climate Groups Are Optimistic about Kamala

Sat, 21 Sep 2024

Kamala has offered very few details on her climate and energy plans while openly promoting American ...

North Carolina's Mark Robinson Extremism Revealed (Again)

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

In a bombshell story Thursday, CNN reported that the Republican candidate for governor in North Caro...

Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants Create Chaos In Springfield, Ohio

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

In the week since the presidential debate, former President Donald Trump’s lies about Haitian immi...

Congress Demands Changes From Secret Service

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

Questions continue to mount around the Secret Service two days after a second assassination attempt ...

The Major Stakes Of State Supreme Court Races

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

Voters in more than 30 states will get to weigh in on elections for their state supreme courts this ...

Can Harris Flip North Carolina Blue?

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

We're officially fewer than 50 days out from Election Day. While most of the attention has been on t...

Why You’re Paying for a Billionaire’s Stadium

Sat, 14 Sep 2024

2024 is on track to be the biggest year for public stadium subsidies we’ve ever seen. Billionaire ...

How Democrats Intercepted Football Messaging from the GOP

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

Thursday night kicked off the start of week two of the NFL season. And after years of ceding the pro...

The Podcast The NYPD Doesn't Want You To Hear

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

It’s been about a week since federal agents seized the phones of New York Police Commissioner Edwa...

Harris Makes Lasting First Impression On Trump

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their ...

Harris v Trump: Debate Night

Tue, 10 Sep 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are set to square off tonight in thei...

Arizona Gets Ready To Vote On Abortion

Mon, 9 Sep 2024

Arizona is one of 10 states where voters will get to weigh in directly on abortion access in Novembe...

When Countries Ban Social Media

Sat, 7 Sep 2024

Brazil’s power struggle with Elon Musk over censorship on X (formerly Twitter) escalated this week...

Trump Alienates His Base With Flip Flopping On Reproductive Rights

Fri, 6 Sep 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign kicked off a weeks-long reproductive freedom bus tour this w...

Another School Shooting: 'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way'

Thu, 5 Sep 2024

Georgia police on Wednesday said four people were killed, and nine others were taken to the hospital...

The Gender Gap Is Widening In The 2024 Election

Wed, 4 Sep 2024

A new poll from ABC News/Ipsos adds more evidence to reports of a growing gender divide among voters...

Wars In Gaza, Ukraine Grind On With New Obstacles For Ceasefire

Tue, 3 Sep 2024

Israel spent the last few days engulfed in mass protests and paralyzed by a national strike after th...

Cities’ Big Plans to Climate-Proof for the Future

Sat, 31 Aug 2024

2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record, beating out the current #1…2023. In a world whe...

How Anti-Trans Laws Hurt Everyone

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

As we've been covering on the show for a while now, Republican-led states across the country are att...

Jack Smith Won’t Back Down

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

Special Counsel Jack Smith is on a roll this week. On Monday, he asked an Atlanta-based appeals cour...

Is Meta Done Fighting Disinformation?

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

In a letter to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan released on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the ...

Georgia Is A Major Prize In 2024. And A Legal Battlefield

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are campaigning this week in Georgia, one o...

How The DNC Kept "Uncommitted" Out Of The Party's Big Tent

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

At last week’s Democratic National Convention, organizers tried to put unity on display by featuri...

When a Presidential Convention Turns The Election

Sat, 24 Aug 2024

The balloons are deflated. The halls have gone quiet. And the entire city of Chicago is, once more, ...

No Beyoncé, No Problem: Kamala Harris Captivates The DNC

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for President Thursday ni...

Harris-Walz Ticket Gives Young Voters New Hope

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

The Democratic National Convention continued Wednesday night as Tim Walz formally accepted the nomin...

"Do Something": How Stacey Abrams And Organizers On The Left Are Mobilizing In 2024

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

Tuesday night’s DNC turned into a raucous celebration as delegates from each state showed off thei...

The DNC Says Farewell To Biden, Hello To Harris

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

On Monday night, President Joe Biden kicked off the Democratic National Convention. In his speech, a...

The DNC Protests You Should Know About

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

The Democratic National Convention kicks off today in Chicago. While Vice President Kamala Harris is...

Could Vance Sink Trump? History Says: Maybe!

Sat, 17 Aug 2024

It’s been about a month since former President Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance to be his running mat...

How Low Will Dems Go?

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Eight years after Michelle Obama's famous "When they go low, we go high" speech, Democrats have been...

'The Squad' Wins Some, Loses Others

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar easily won her primary race on Tuesday in a rematch against an opponent sh...

West Coast Cities Grapple With SCOTUS Grants Pass Decision

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Across the West Coast, cities and counties are still figuring out their approach to homelessness rou...

Iran Has (Allegedly) Entered The Chat

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

On Monday, The FBI confirmed it's investigating claims that Iran hacked the Trump campaign. The agen...

How Black Voters Matter Is Organizing For Harris

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is well on her way to shoring up the kind of historic support from Blac...

Tim Walz's Progressive Realism, Explained

Sat, 10 Aug 2024

In front of a crowd of thousands at a rally in Philadelphia this week, Vice President Kamala Harris ...

Trump Is Getting Nervous

Fri, 9 Aug 2024

Today marks one decade since 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's...

Harris-Walz Centers Reproductive Choice

Thu, 8 Aug 2024

Reproductive choice is on the ballot in 2024, and Vice President Kamala Harris is making it a centra...

Governor Walz Comes Out Swinging

Wed, 7 Aug 2024

After much deliberation, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her runni...

Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush Is Fighting To Keep Her Seat

Mon, 5 Aug 2024

St. Louis, Missouri, residents will vote on Tuesday in one of the most expensive Democratic primarie...

Kamala Harris' Time As DA: Cop or Progressive?

Sat, 3 Aug 2024

When then-Sen. Kamala Harris ran for president in the 2020 election, progressive activists quickly l...

Who Will Silicon Valley Support In 2024?

Fri, 2 Aug 2024

Silicon Valley leaders have been weighing in loudly on the upcoming presidential race. Over four hun...

Misogynoir Takes Center Stage During Q&A With Trump At NABJ

Thu, 1 Aug 2024

Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump took to the main stage at the National Association...

All The Vice President's White Men

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage on Tuesday at a campaign rally in Atlanta in front of a ...

Democrats Get Serious About Court Reform

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

On Monday, President Joe Biden announced an ambitious three-part plan to reform the Supreme Court. H...

"Smart On Crime": How VP Harris's Record As Prosecutor Could Impact The 2024 Race

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

Almost as soon as Vice President Kamala Harris jumped into the 2024 presidential race, she found a m...

Here's The Best Clue We Have on Kamala Harris' Foreign Policy

Sat, 27 Jul 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is hitting the campaign trail, but her talking points don’t shed much...

The Paris Olympics Gets Political

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

The Paris Summer Olympics holds opening ceremonies today, officially kicking off 16 days of elite at...

Voters Outside The Democratic Base Weigh In On VP Harris

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

On Wednesday, President Biden addressed the nation in an Oval Office speech — three days after he ...

Will Vice President Harris Follow Biden's Lead on Middle East Policy?

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, D.C., today to address a joint session o...

Why Democrats Aren't Afraid of GOP Legal Challenges to VP Harris's Candidacy

Tue, 23 Jul 2024

With Vice President Kamala Harris in position to receive the Democratic Party’s presidential nomin...

Biden Exits The Race, Kamala Harris Races To Replace Him

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is ending his re-election bid and is throwing his support be...

Will the Trump Assassination Attempt Change the 2024 Race?

Sat, 20 Jul 2024

Since the moment someone shot Donald Trump last weekend, we’ve been hearing the same thing: this e...

RNC 2024: Same Old Trump

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

Former President Donald Trump wrapped up this week’s Republican National Convention on Thursday ni...

Three Weeks After The Debate, More Dems Call For Biden To Step Down

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

Wednesday was jam-packed with new developments on and around the Democratic campaign trail. The Whit...

Breaking Down Project 2025

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

On the outskirts of this week's Republican National Convention, the ultra-conservative think tank Th...

From Foe to Bro: JD Vance is Trump's VP

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Former President Donald Trump chose Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate on Monday, just as Repu...

A Call For Unity After Trump Assassination Attempt

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

On Saturday, a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at one of his campaign ...

How Democrats Lost The Power to Remove Biden

Sat, 13 Jul 2024

Why isn’t there a way for party leaders to get together—in a back room, ideally somewhere dark a...

Biden's NATO Presser Leaves Democrats Still Divided

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

President Joe Biden on Thursday wrapped up this week’s NATO summit in Washington by giving his fir...

Polls Show Biden's Narrowing Path To Victory

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Lawmakers continue to weigh in on the fate of President Biden’s re-election campaign. Vermont’s ...

The Anti-Abortion Agenda Hiding In The GOP's Platform

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

Republicans appeared to soften their stance on abortion ahead of next week’s party convention and ...

Biden Says He's Isn't Going Anywhere

Tue, 9 Jul 2024

President Biden continued to aggressively push back on the idea that he would drop out of the presid...

Biden Defies Calls To Exit The Presidential Race

Mon, 8 Jul 2024

President Joe Biden spent the long July Fourth weekend trying to save his re-election bid after his ...

Dems Change Their Tune About Biden For President

Wed, 3 Jul 2024

We may be starting to see a seismic shift in how the Democratic Party publicly talks about whether P...

Supreme Court Grants Trump Some Immunity From Prosecution

Tue, 2 Jul 2024

The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed former President Donald Trump a major win on Monday...

Could Biden Be Replaced?

Mon, 1 Jul 2024

The Biden campaign spent the weekend trying to contain the damage from the president’s devastating...

The Origins of America's Toxic Obsession With Lawns

Sat, 29 Jun 2024

Why is America so obsessed with lawns and order? Max and Erin get into the weeds of how the founding...

Debate Night: What A Disaster

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

Well… that happened. In the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, President Biden ...

Ready, Set, Debate!

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to square off tonight in their first d...

Republicans Turn To Cheap Fakes In The Presidential Election

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Ready or not, tomorrow is debate day. And both President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Donald ...

Progressives and Centrists Spar In Major NY Democratic Primary

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

In today’s New York primary elections, voters in the state’s 16th Congressional District will de...

The State of Abortion Access Two Years After Roe

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned Roe vs. Wade, ...

Is This Progressive Answer to Crime Working?

Sat, 22 Jun 2024

Is there a way to send fewer people to prison while lowering crime rates? This week’s How We Got H...

Congress Weighs Drafting Women To Military

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Congress is weighing proposals to update mandatory military conscription policies — aka the draft ...

The Push For Federal Action On Extreme Heat

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

Tens of millions of Americans in the Northeast and Midwest are sweating through their first major he...

A Georgia Man's Life Mission To Preserve Black History

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

Speaking at a Juneteenth event at the White House this month, President Joe Biden warned about the “...

Netanyahu Dissolves Israel’s War Cabinet

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday dissolved his war cabinet that’s overseen the ...

Trump's Odds Of Getting Conviction Reversed

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to appeal his criminal conviction on 34 counts of falsifying...

The Real Story Behind the Far-Right's Rise in Europe

Sat, 15 Jun 2024

We’ve been hearing that the far-right is on the rise in Europe for a decade now. And yet, with a f...

SCOTUS Maintains Access to Abortion Drug...For Now

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court preserved broad access to the abortion drug m...

Rep. Jamie Raskin On Project 2025

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

House Democrats on Tuesday launched an official task force to take on the far-right agenda Republica...

Hunter Biden's Guilty Verdict

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

A Delaware jury on Tuesday convicted Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, on three federal fel...

How Climate Change Is Impacting Reproductive Health

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court asked the Justice Department to weigh in on two cases that deal wi...

Israel Hostage Rescue Mission Kills Scores of Palestinians

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

Benny Gantz, a key member of Israel’s war cabinet, resigned from his post on Sunday. His announcem...

Why Is the SAT Back (Again)?

Sat, 8 Jun 2024

Until recently, many people—and colleges—rejected the SAT as a racist and classist metric that p...

SCOTUS Holds Off On Big Case Decisions... Again

Fri, 7 Jun 2024

Thursday was a bit of a letdown for Supreme Court watchers. The justices issued opinions in three sm...

Harris, Trump Head To California To Court Big-Money Donors

Thu, 6 Jun 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign rode his felony conviction to a banner fundraising day la...

Sen. Alex Padilla: Biden's Border Plan Is "Unconscionable"

Wed, 5 Jun 2024

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will severely limit the number of migrants who ca...

Biden's Executive Order For The Border

Tue, 4 Jun 2024

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that would severely limit the numbe...

Celebrity Endorsements For The Win?

Mon, 3 Jun 2024

We’re about five months away from election day, meaning both campaigns will do whatever they can t...

Trump, Guilty As Charged. Now What?

Fri, 31 May 2024

Guilty, guilty, guilty. A Manhattan jury on Thursday found former President Donald Trump guilty on a...

Trump's Fate Now In The Hands Of Manhattan Jury

Thu, 30 May 2024

The Manhattan jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal defense trial began deliberations o...

Hush Money Trial: Closing Arguments Are Over, Now Jurors Deliberate

Wed, 29 May 2024

The defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments Tuesday in former President Donald Tru...

The Supreme Court's Samuel Alito Problem

Tue, 28 May 2024

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has called a rare special legislative session starting today to ens...

What A War Crimes Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Really Means

Sat, 25 May 2024

The International Criminal Court is formally seeking warrants to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benja...

SCOTUS's South Carolina Decision Isn't The Only Voting Rights Fight To Watch

Fri, 24 May 2024

The United States Supreme Court sided with Republicans in a decision over South Carolina’s dispute...

Biden Welcomes Kenyan President For State Visit

Thu, 23 May 2024

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced plans on Wednesday to fast-track a vote on...

Giuliani Arraigned For 2020 Election Scheme In Arizona

Wed, 22 May 2024

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was one of 11 people who pleaded not guilty in an Arizona c...

The ICC Seeks Arrest Warrants For Israeli and Hamas Leaders

Tue, 21 May 2024

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor on Monday announced plans to seek arrest warra...

Morehouse Graduates Silently Protest Biden's Commencement Speech

Mon, 20 May 2024

President Joe Biden gave the commencement speech at Morehouse College’s graduation ceremony on Sun...

The Hidden Roots of America's Baby Bust

Sat, 18 May 2024

Birth rates are plummeting around the world and no one has cracked the code on how to get people to ...

Wins For Voters in Louisiana and Wisconsin

Fri, 17 May 2024

This week, we saw some big wins in the fight to expand access to the ballot box. On Wednesday, the S...

DOJ Vows To Protect Election Workers

Thu, 16 May 2024

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to two debates on Wednesday. In agreein...

Trump's Surrogates Take Center Stage In Manhattan

Wed, 15 May 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial hit a new level of chaos Tuesday as Mich...

Poll: Biden Losing Ground In Battleground States, But Don't Panic

Tue, 14 May 2024

Donald Trump leads President Biden in five of the six battleground states, according to two new poll...

The Fiasco That Delayed College Decision Day

Mon, 13 May 2024

"Decision Day" for high school students looking to go to college was pushed back this year to May 15...

What’s Really Behind America’s Generational Divide Over Israel

Sat, 11 May 2024

Why are middle-aged and older Americans persistently pro-Israel? It hasn’t always been the case. T...

A Stormy Week In The Hush Money Trial

Fri, 10 May 2024

Adult film star Stormy Daniels took the stand this week in the hush money trial against former Presi...

How Much Leverage Does The Biden Administration Have Over Israel?

Thu, 9 May 2024

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. would not supply Israel with some weapons if it ...

DOJ Set To Sue Iowa Over Harsh Immigration Law

Wed, 8 May 2024

The Justice Department is set to take a significant step this week, initiating a lawsuit against Iow...

How A Rafah Invasion Could Impact Palestinian Refugees

Tue, 7 May 2024

Hamas on Monday announced it had agreed to a proposal for a ceasefire deal, renewing hopes a truce w...

Trump's VP Wannabes

Mon, 6 May 2024

Former President Donald Trump held an audition of sorts on Saturday for his top vice presidential pi...

Is a Bird Flu Pandemic Inevitable?

Sat, 4 May 2024

Why does it feel like avian flu is always circling around? How did it land on cows? Are we on the cu...

Trump Takes ‘It All In’ At Hush Money Trial

Fri, 3 May 2024

Thursday was Day 10 of former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in Manhattan. Bef...

Congress Passes Antisemitism Legislation In Attempt To Quell University Protests

Thu, 2 May 2024

New York police officers arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters who’d occupied Hamilton...

Biden Administration Moves To Lessen Restrictions On Marijuana

Wed, 1 May 2024

The Department of Justice took a significant step on Tuesday to downgrade federal restrictions on ma...

MTG, Mike Johnson, And The Depths Of GOP Chaos

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

New York holds a special election today to fill a seat vacated by Democratic Congressman Brian Higgi...

Biden Reiterates “Clear Position” Against Rafah Invasion In Latest Call With Netanyahu

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday to discuss develo...

How Unions Won The South

Sat, 27 Apr 2024

Employees of a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee just voted to form the FIRST autoworkers u...

Supreme Court Weighs Immunity In Trump's Jan 6 Case

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s presidential...

SCOTUS Hears Trump Immunity Case

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in a landmark case that could determine whether former Presi...

Gaza Campus Protests Through the Eyes Of Student Journalists

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

Police arrested hundreds of college students in the last week amid intensifying campus protests over...

Inside Trump's Criminal Hush Money Trial

Tue, 23 Apr 2024

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and attorneys for Donald Trump gave their opening stateme...

How SCOTUS Could Allow Cities To Criminalize Homelessness

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

After months of delay, House lawmakers this weekend passed a package of bills to send foreign aid to...

Why Tesla is Spiraling Out of Control

Sat, 20 Apr 2024

Tesla is laying off 14,000 people, their self-driving cars are hitting a wall—figurative and somet...

The Challenges Of Jury Selection

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

All 12 jurors have been seated in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial in Man...

An Anticlimactic End to Mayorkas Impeachment

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

On Wednesday, the Senate moved to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland ...

Speaker Johnson VS. House Far-Right GOP

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

House Republicans are in chaos again after a second conservative lawmaker voiced support for a push ...

Supreme Court Could Help Trump In Jan 6 Obstruction Case

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in a major case related to the January 6th Insurrection that...

Middle East Tensions At A High After Iran Attacks Israel

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Description: The Iranian government launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel late Saturday...

The Real Origins of the Student Debt Crisis

Sat, 13 Apr 2024

Once upon a time, borrowing money for college was an affordable path towards upward mobility. Today,...

DOJ Closes 'The Gun Show Loophole'

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

The Justice Department announced Thursday, it finalized rules to close a major loophole in gun purch...

House Republicans Deal Speaker Another Blow With FISA Bill

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

A group of House Republicans dealt Speaker Mike Johnson another embarrassing blow on Wednesday when ...

Arizona Abortion Access Now Hinges On A Referendum

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, that an 1864 law banning almost all abortions is enforce...

Will Biden's Student Debt Plan Payoff Come November?

Tue, 9 Apr 2024

President Joe Biden on Monday announced another round of student debt relief that could help tens of...

A Total Eclipse Of The...Sun!

Mon, 8 Apr 2024

Israel said on Sunday that it was reducing its military presence in Gaza but rejected any suggestion...

How is Trump's Phony Media Company "Worth" $7 Billion?

Sat, 6 Apr 2024

Why on earth is Wall Street valuing Donald Trump’s little social network at $7 billion despite hav...

Baltimore Mayor Says Key Bridge Cleanup Is Like "Jenga"

Fri, 5 Apr 2024

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday, the first time ...

Outrage Intensifies After World Central Kitchen Strike

Thu, 4 Apr 2024

José Andrés, the celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen, said that Israel “targeted...

World Central Kitchen Pauses Work in Gaza After Fatal Israeli Strike

Wed, 3 Apr 2024

World Central Kitchen, an international aid group, said on Tuesday it paused its relief operation in...

Florida Voters Will Decide Abortion Access In November

Tue, 2 Apr 2024

The Florida Supreme Court delivered bittersweet news to abortion rights advocates on Monday. In one ...

How Biden Can Move Voters on Immigration

Mon, 1 Apr 2024

Cesar Chavez Day was Sunday, and it’s the day when Americans honor the late Latino civil rights ic...

The Pill That May Save Abortion Rights

Sat, 30 Mar 2024

Mifepristone revolutionized abortion access in America, so much that, two years after the fall of Ro...

Trans Athletes Fight For Rights

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

The federal government announced on Thursday some upcoming changes to the next Census. The form will...

Baltimore Mourns Victims of the Bridge Collapse

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

Democrats scored a surprise landslide win on Tuesday when Marilyn Lands prevailed in a special elect...

Supreme Court Side-Eyes Anti-Abortion Doctors

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

The Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed skeptical of a case that challenged expanded access to ...

Trump Trades In Lies, And On Nasdaq Starting Today

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday calling for an immediate ceasefire...

Texas Gives No Clarity On Exceptions to Anti-Abortion Law

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

More than 130 people are dead after a terrorist attack Friday night at a concert in Moscow. An offsh...

Why Hip Hop Never Had a #MeToo Movement

Sat, 23 Mar 2024

Background:Los Angeles Times: Behind the calamitous fall of hip-hop mogul Sean 'Diddy' CombsLA Times...

Third Parties Could Threaten Biden’s Reelection

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

The Justice Department and more than a dozen states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on Thur...

The Courts Temporarily Stop Texas From Arresting and Deporting Migrants

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Texas’ draconian immigration law SB4 is back on hold after a ruling late Tuesday night by the Fift...

Netanyahu Insists on Rafah Offensive Despite Biden's Warning

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated his plans to do exactly what Preside...

Ohio Could Be Make Or Break For Senate Dems

Tue, 19 Mar 2024

Ohio is one of five states holding primary elections on Tuesday. A few big races there will make it ...

The Damages Done To Georgia's Case Against Trump

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

The Georgia racketeering case against Donald Trump can proceed with Fulton County District Attorney ...

How Israel Became a Rogue Ally

Sat, 16 Mar 2024

This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he’s invading the Palestinian city ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer Slams Netanyahu As "Obstacle To Peace"

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for new Israeli elections to oust Prime Mini...

The Fight For Reparations Gains Real Momentum

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

Americans have considered the idea of reparations for more than a century, but there’s real moment...

Explaining The Timer on TikTok's Fate

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

The House is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that could force the Chinese owners of TikTok to s...

Biden's Budget Takes Aim At The Wealthy, Corporations

Tue, 12 Mar 2024

President Biden on Monday unveiled his $7.3 trillion budget proposal for the next fiscal year. He ca...

Ramadan Begins With No Ceasefire In Sight

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

Ramadan began Sunday night, and it was also the unofficial deadline by which the Biden administratio...

Are Primaries What's Wrong with American Politics?

Sat, 9 Mar 2024

Primaries elections are good, right? It’s how we hold the party accountable and raise up progressi...

Biden Got Feisty In His State Of The Union

Fri, 8 Mar 2024

President Biden delivered his State of the Union Thursday night. He traded verbal blows with his con...

Progressives Explain What They Want Out Of Biden's Big Speech

Thu, 7 Mar 2024

President Biden delivers his third State of the Union address Thursday night ahead of this November’...

Donald Trump Closer To Clinching Nomination After Super Tuesday

Wed, 6 Mar 2024

Super Tuesday was mostly a blowout on the Republican side for former President Donald Trump. Nikki H...

Trump Back On The Ballot In Colorado

Tue, 5 Mar 2024

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump can stay on Colora...

Why Oregon's Going From Drug Decriminalization To Recriminalization

Mon, 4 Mar 2024

Oregon’s legislature has reintroduced criminal penalties for hard drug possession, effectively rev...

How Wall Street Ruined Your (and the MLB's) Wardrobe

Sat, 2 Mar 2024

I see London, I see France, I see Shohei Ohtani’s underpants. This week, the MLB kicked off Spring...

Over 100 Palestinians Killed While Collecting Aid

Fri, 1 Mar 2024

More than 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured Thursday near Gaza City as people g...

Mitch McConnell Is Stepping Down

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Wednesday that he plans to step down as the Republi...

Another Shutdown Looms Thanks To Far-Right Conservatives

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Yet another government shutdown looms and lawmakers have until Friday night to avert it. Here's what...

Could Facebook Abandon Florida and Texas?

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments on a case that could upend the online world. At iss...

Why Michigan’s Muslim and Arab Voters Are Uncommitted to Biden

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Former President Donald Trump cleaned up in the South Carolina Republican primary last Saturday, win...

How We Got Here: How Christian Nationalists Took Over the GOP

Sat, 24 Feb 2024

Republicans are coming after IVF? And no-fault divorce? This week, a Supreme Court ruling in Alabama...

Russia Withholds Alexei Navalny's Body From His Family

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

The mother of deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that authorities are “blackma...

Fertility Treatments Threatened In Post-Roe Alabama

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

The University of Alabama health system became the first organization in the state to pause IVF trea...

How The Ed Department Fumbled The FAFSA Revamp

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

The U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and stood alone on the...

Mapping Out A New Wisconsin And Beyond

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

Wisconsin’s Democratic Governor Tony Evers signed new legislative maps into law on Monday, and bro...

How We Got Here: How Lead Poisoning Rewired America

Sat, 17 Feb 2024

What do the 1970s crime wave, the endangerment of the California condor, and Gen Xers demanding to s...

Trump’s Week of Legal Woes

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

Fulton County DA Fani Willis and special counsel Nathan Wade both took the stand on Thursday about t...

How Dems Can Play To Win

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

A mass shooting at Wednesday’s Super Bowl parade for the Kansas City Chiefs left one person dead a...

Republicans Impeach Homeland Secretary Mayorkas

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

House Republicans impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday in a 214-21...

Pennsylvania’s House Special

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

Control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives hinges on a special election taking place today...

Replacing The Con In Congress

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

Tuesday is Election Day for the race to replace George Santos in New York’s third congressional di...

How We Got Here: How Sports Betting Took Over America

Sat, 10 Feb 2024

It’s Week 2 of What a Day’s new series “How We Got Here,” in which Hysteria’s Erin Ryan an...

The Question Of Trump's Eligibility

Fri, 9 Feb 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case considering whether or not Donald Trump...

The Case for Amendment 4

Thu, 8 Feb 2024

The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments about Amendment 4 — a constitutional amendm...

Citizen Trump

Wed, 7 Feb 2024

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump's immunity claim and ruled that he can be p...

Brittney Gilliam's Family Reaches A Settlement

Tue, 6 Feb 2024

Brittney Gilliam agreed to a $1.9 million settlement more than three years after police officers in ...

Trump’s Trials And Errors

Mon, 5 Feb 2024

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis admitted to having a personal relationship with Nathan W...

How We Got Here: Why it Feels Like the Southern Border is Always in Crisis

Sat, 3 Feb 2024

Welcome to What a Day’s How We Got Here, a new weekend series where Hysteria’s Erin Ryan and Off...

TikTok's Timeout

Fri, 2 Feb 2024

President Joe Biden issued an executive order imposing sanctions and visa bans on Israeli settlers w...

Kickin' Off The Party In South Carolina

Thu, 1 Feb 2024

The first official Democratic primary of 2024 taking place this Saturday in South Carolina. Presiden...

Big Tech CEOs Testify Before Congress

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

Despite reported headway in the negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday r...

The Deal with the Border Deal

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

A bipartisan immigration deal in Congress could be announced as soon as this week. The agreement wou...

Israel Ordered To Prevent Acts Of Genocide

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

The UN’s International Court of Justice ruled last Friday ordering Israel to prevent acts of genoc...

CIA Chief Heads Abroad to Broker Gaza Deal

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

President Joe Biden will send CIA Director William Burns to help negotiate a new deal between Israel...

How NYC’s Mayor Fails Migrants

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered his third State of the City address on Wednesday. Since jus...

Nikki Haley Gets Trumped In New Hampshire

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

Former President Donald Trump won New Hampshire’s Republican primary on Tuesday and defeated forme...

Supreme Court Rules Against Texas' Border Razor Wire

Tue, 23 Jan 2024

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Biden administration has the authority to remove parts of...

DeSantis Discontinued

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially exited from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed former ...

Fani Willis Fights Back Against Misconduct Claims

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faces misconduct allegations after a co-defendant in Geo...

Gaza Gets Crucial Medicine Delivery

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

Israel and Hamas reached an agreement on Wednesday to get medicine delivered to hostages held in Gaz...

The Push For More Ukraine Aid

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

President Biden invited Congressional leaders to the White House Wednesday for their first face-to-f...

Iowa's Participation Awards Go To...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

The Iowa caucuses are officially over. Donald Trump won as expected with just over 50 percent of the...

Caucusing Up A Storm

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

The Iowa caucuses are here. Former President Donald Trump is in the lead, according to the most rece...

Explaining Iowa's Raucous Caucus

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

The Iowa Caucuses are back! Trump is the clear favorite, but there’s a tense battle for second pla...

Israel Goes On Trial For Genocide

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

Israel is accused of committing genocide in Gaza in a case before the International Court of Justice...

Trump's Unappealing Appeal

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Donald Trump was back in court on Tuesday for the federal case against him for trying to overturn th...

Florida Man Gets Fired

Tue, 9 Jan 2024

The Chair of Florida’s Republican Party of Florida, Christian Ziegler, was removed from his positi...

Boeing Troubles Take Off

Mon, 8 Jan 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the inspection of 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after a pa...

NYC Sues Over Migrant Buses

Fri, 5 Jan 2024

ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombings in Iran that killed at least 84 people and injured 284 ...

Abortion Rights And Texas Wrongs

Thu, 4 Jan 2024

An appeals court ruled on Tuesday that doctors in Texas are not required to perform emergency aborti...

Trump's Maine Squeeze

Wed, 3 Jan 2024

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed the decision by Maine’s Secretary of State that ...

And WAD's Person Of The Year Is...

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

The Biden administration is pressuring Israel to scale back its war by the end of the year. And earl...

The Difference Between Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced that it will hear a case challenging the Food and Drug Admi...

Optimism? In This Economy?!

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

A group of ten current and formerly incarcerated people in Alabama filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesda...

The Golden Globe Standard

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

The UN Climate Change Conference – known as COP28 – hit a major roadblock on Monday. There’s d...

All's Well That Ends Sickle Cell

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

The Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted the abortion procedure for Kate Cox, a 31-year-old pregna...

Texas Grants Nation's First Court-Sanctioned Abortion

Fri, 8 Dec 2023

A Texas judge ruled Thursday that a woman can terminate her pregnancy because of a lethal abnormalit...

Biden Delivers Billions More Student Debt Relief

Thu, 7 Dec 2023

Senate Republicans blocked meaningful gun control once again Wednesday by stopping a Democratic meas...

Tommy Tubervillainy

Wed, 6 Dec 2023

GOP Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama finally backed down on Tuesday after single-handedly blockin...

SCOTUS Decides Fate Of Landmark Opioid Settlement

Tue, 5 Dec 2023

The Biden administration is sounding the alarm to Congress about the need to pass a funding bill to ...

Hundreds Dead In Gaza After Truce Ends

Mon, 4 Dec 2023

Hundreds of Palestinians were killed since fighting resumed after a weeklong truce between Israel an...

Fighting Resumes In Israel-Hamas War

Fri, 1 Dec 2023

The weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas expired early Friday morning local time and combat opera...

Good COP28, Bad COP28

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

The UN’s 28th Conference of the Parties, also called COP28, kicks off today in Dubai. The annual c...

Trump Wants To Repeal Obamacare. Again.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

Donald Trump threatened to replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if he wins the 2024 presid...

Young Thug, Trump Vs. Georgia’s RICO Act

Tue, 28 Nov 2023

Israel and Hamas both agreed on Monday to extend the current pause in fighting for another two days....

Hostages Released In The Israel-Hamas War

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

Seventeen more hostages held by Hamas were released on Sunday under a temporary, four-day ceasefire ...

Voting Rights Act Under Threat (Again)

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

A federal appeals court on Monday issued a ruling that jeopardizes the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In...

Closed Doors At OpenAI

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

Israel, Hamas and the U.S. are close to an agreement to free some hostages held in Gaza, according t...

Israel-Hamas War Protests Intensify

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

Family members of Israeli hostages held by Hamas are currently on a five-day march from Tel Aviv to ...

Biden's San Francisco Mission

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping met on Wednesday for the first time in a year...

GOP Goes WWE

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to avoid a government s...

Strictly Scrutinizing The Ethics Code

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

The Supreme Court announced its first-ever ethics code on Monday after pressure from Congress and th...

The People's Stop Work Order

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

Local organizers in Atlanta are set to hold a mass nonviolent community action today against Cop Cit...

Joe Manchin Jeopardizes Democratic Control

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in...

The GOP In The 305

Thu, 9 Nov 2023

The third GOP presidential debate took place in Miami last night with five hopefuls on stage. Meanwh...

Abortion Rights Wins Elections

Wed, 8 Nov 2023

Tuesday was Election Day in key battleground states. In Ohio, voters codified reproductive rights in...

Trump Testified And It Was Chaos

Tue, 7 Nov 2023

Israeli forces said they were closing in on Gaza City as of Monday night. Meanwhile, Palestinian hea...

In The Blinken of an Eye

Mon, 6 Nov 2023

Israeli troops said they closed in on Gaza City, and Gaza appeared to be under yet another communica...

The Push For A Pause

Fri, 3 Nov 2023

As Israeli troops enter Gaza City and the Palestinian death toll crosses 9,000 lives, the U.S. is pu...

Exit to Egypt

Thu, 2 Nov 2023

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Is...

The Tragedy of War, Made Worse

Wed, 1 Nov 2023

Israel confirmed that an airstrike targeting a top Hamas commander hit a densely populated refugee c...

Not On My Ballot

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

As Israel continues its air and ground offensive into Gaza, its military says it has freed an IDF so...

The Global Plea For Peace

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

Gaza’s Health Ministry says that over 8,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of t...

A Dark Day For Maine

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

A manhunt is underway in Maine for the gunman behind two shootings in Maine. Eighteen people were ki...

The Real House Speaker of D.C.

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, ending a 22-days ...

Never Have I Emmer

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

The whirlwind saga to choose the next House speaker continues. After three rounds of secret votes la...

The War Next Door

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

Two more hostages held captive by Hamas were released on Monday, though Israel says more than 200 ot...

The Worst People for the Worst Job

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

Over the weekend, the first trucks containing much-needed humanitarian aid crossed into Gaza; hours ...

All Talk And No Speaker

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

Republicans have failed, again, to select a new House speaker. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio –...

An All-Consuming Rage

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

President Joe Biden touched down in Israel on Wednesday in a show of support for a nation in mournin...

Biden's High-Wire Act

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

As President Biden prepared to visit Israel, a hospital in Gaza City was hit by a devastating blast ...

Reopening Gaza's Lifeline

Tue, 17 Oct 2023

President Biden will travel to Israel tomorrow. The high-stakes visit is meant to be a show of solid...

The Deepening Crisis in Gaza

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

As Israel continues to gear up for its anticipated ground invasion of Gaza, diplomats with the Unite...

The Fact of the Matter

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Thursday to show support for the country, followi...

The View From Tel Aviv

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

As Israel sends thousands of troops to the border with Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...

Not Some Distant Tragedy

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

The devastation from the war between Israel and Hamas continues to unfold. As of Tuesday, nearly 2,0...

Israel Declares War on Hamas

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

At least 1,500 people have been killed in the days since Hamas, the Palestinian armed group that con...

SCOTUS Is Back! Term Preview from Strict Scrutiny

Mon, 9 Oct 2023

***What A Day will be back with a new episode Tuesday, October 10th***It's the start of a new Suprem...

Putting Alabama On The Map

Fri, 6 Oct 2023

Federal judges chose a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday, after a major, two year legal ...

Reading Is Fundamental, Honey

Thu, 5 Oct 2023

Republicans remain divided over who should lead their delicate House majority after Kevin McCarthy w...

Kevin Knows I'm Miserable Now

Wed, 4 Oct 2023

In an unprecedented move led by far-right Republicans, Kevin McCarthy was voted out of his job as Sp...

Introducing Laphonza Butler

Tue, 3 Oct 2023

A testy and defiant Donald Trump showed up to court yesterday in Manhattan, for the first day of his...

Shutdown, Swerved

Mon, 2 Oct 2023

Just hours before the Saturday night deadline, a bill to fund the government through mid-November pa...

Shut Up Or Shut Down

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

Republicans held their first hearing Thursday in their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden....

A Time For Chaos

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

The second 2024 GOP presidential debate took place yesterday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Libra...

Capitalism, Explained

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Capitalism is having a moment in our current political discourse. And believe it or not, we haven't ...

Pickets Down

Tue, 26 Sep 2023

The Writers Guild of America late Sunday evening announced a tentative agreement with the major stud...

Bob's Discount Bribery Scandal

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing calls from fellow Democrats to resign, as he faces federal...

Make Way For A New Murdoch

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington D.C. on Thursday to meet with President Bi...

Going After Garland

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on We...

Some Assembly Required

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, framing Russia...

Bye Bye, Bail

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

Five Americans detained in Iran for years are on their way back home as part of a rare agreement bet...

Autoworkers, Roll Out!

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

The United Auto Workers Union is on strike at all three of Detroit’s major automakers — General ...

Remembering Mahsa Amini, One Year Later

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

September 16th marks the one year anniversary since the death of Mahsa Amini and the start of a wome...

UAW Races To The Deadline

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

Members of the United Auto Workers union are in the final countdown to reach a labor agreement with ...

Hey Google, Why Is The DOJ Suing You

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

The government’s antitrust trial against Google kicked off yesterday as lawyers for the Department...

This Ken Is On Trial

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

The 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack was yesterday, and officials around the country me...

Morocco Races To Save Quake Victims

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

A destructive 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night and left 2,000 people dead a...

The Tension Over Tourism In Hawai'i

Fri, 8 Sep 2023

In a new report, Hawai'i’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism estimates tha...

Kill Drill

Thu, 7 Sep 2023

It's only been five weeks since Justice Janet Protasiewicz was sworn in to the Wisconsin Supreme Cou...

You Are Not A Loan

Wed, 6 Sep 2023

Interest on federal student loans has officially resumed, and payments are set to restart on October...

COVID Surge Protection

Tue, 5 Sep 2023

COVID cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in the U.S., and experts are closely monitoring a n...

Proud Boys Swallowed Their Pride

Fri, 1 Sep 2023

Two more leaders of the Proud Boys were sentenced yesterday for their roles in the January 6th insur...

Why You Gotta Be So Rudy?

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast yesterday morning and wreaked havoc in its ...

Only Fun Drugs Should Cost Money

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

The Biden administration on Tuesday shared the first ten prescription drugs that it has chosen for p...

Trump's March To Trial

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

March 4, 2024 will be the first day for Donald Trump’s federal criminal trial in which he is charg...

The Persecution Of Prosectors

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

A white gunman shot and killed three Black people in a racist attack at a Dollar General store on Sa...

The Trump Mugshot Seen 'Round the World

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Former President Donald Trump surrendered on Thursday at the Fulton County Jail on felony charges re...

Not My Debate, Not My Monkeys

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

Eight Republican presidential candidates went head to head for the first GOP primary debate in Milwa...

The Teacher Shortage Cheat Sheet with Becky Pringle

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

Students across the country head back to school this month, but tens of thousands of teacher positio...

We Give It A One Out Of Tennessee

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Tennessee lawmakers gathered yesterday for the start of a week-long special session on public safety...

Beating Bans On Gender-Affirming Care

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Mexico’s Baja California region yesterday and the center of...

The DeSantis Documents

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

Hundreds of documents containing detailed debate advice seemingly intended for Gov. Ron DeSantis wer...

Your Rights Are Not Set In Mifepristone

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that it would impose restrictions on the abortion pill mifep...

The Future Of Tribes with Cherokee Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

Donald Trump was indicted for a fourth time Monday night. Trump now faces a total of 91 criminal cou...

Trump's Fourth Indictment

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

Donald Trump was charged with 13 felonies in Georgia yesterday, including forgery, filing false docu...

Staying Lahaina Strong

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

More than 90 people have been killed in Maui since wildfires erupted last week, making it the deadli...

How to Help Maui Locals

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

Rescue efforts continue in Maui after fast-moving wildfires caused catastrophic damage across the is...

Maui Residents Flee Deadly Fires

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

Raging wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui have killed six people and displaced thousands more....

OH Said No!

Wed, 9 Aug 2023

Ohio overwhelmingly voted against Issue 1 in a statewide special election on Tuesday. It’s a major...

Oh Hi Go Vote

Tue, 8 Aug 2023

Donald Trump’s lawyers argued on Monday that prosecutors are infringing on Trump's First Amendment...

Falling Short One Goal

Mon, 7 Aug 2023

The United States is officially out of the Women’s World Cup after a heartbreaking and dramatic lo...

Even the Scandals are Bigger in Texas

Fri, 4 Aug 2023

Former President Trump pleaded not guilty to the four criminal charges against him tied to his actio...

Keeping It 100°+

Thu, 3 Aug 2023

Last July was so hot that 81 percent of the world's population endured sweltering heat, according to...

Do The Indict Thing

Wed, 2 Aug 2023

Former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time on Tuesday for the alleged role he pla...

The Devil Went Down To Georgia

Tue, 1 Aug 2023

A Georgia judge on Monday rejected former president Donald Trump’s effort to stop an investigation...

We Have Issues With This One

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

The latest battle over abortion rights is set to begin in Ohio. On August 8th, voters in the Buckeye...

More Charges, More Problems

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

Former President Donald Trump is facing additional charges in the case over his handling of classifi...

Here's The Deal With Hunter Biden

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

A federal judge has delayed approval for Hunter Biden’s plea deal with the Justice Department over...

What Can Organizing Do For You?

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

UPS and the Teamsters union — which represents about 340,000 UPS workers nationwide — reached a ...

Coal Miner's Dilemma

Tue, 25 Jul 2023

Black lung disease, a debilitating and incurable condition that affects coal miners, is now on the r...

The Far Right's Not Alright

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

Israel’s parliament is set to vote today on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to reform t...

Indictment Girl Summer

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

A federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results me...

Bringing SCOTUS Up To Code

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on a bill today that would impose a code of ethics on ...

Indictments Come In Threes

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he received another "target letter" from the Justice Depa...

Crimea River

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

On Monday, explosives damaged a key bridge connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean Peninsula. Ru...

Flamin' Hot Climate

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

More than 100 million people across the United States were under excessive heat warnings and advisor...

Opill Goes OTC

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill ...

Two Strikes, We're Out

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

160,000 Hollywood actors are poised to strike Thursday, joining WGA members on the picket lines in w...

Swedening The Deal

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Leaders of the 31 NATO nations gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania on Tuesday for the first day of the an...

A Breath Of Fresh Mondaire

Tue, 11 Jul 2023

Former U.S. Congressman Mondaire Jones is once again running for Congress in New York’s 17th distr...

Clarence The Big Red Flag

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

A New York Times report published Sunday revealed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s involvem...

Common Threads

Fri, 7 Jul 2023

On Thursday, a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Lviv killed at least six people and i...

SCOTUS Strikes Down POTUS

Thu, 6 Jul 2023

The Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and limited protectio...

Live, Laugh, Local News

Wed, 5 Jul 2023

Over the past year, newsrooms across the country have experienced significant staff cuts, even leadi...

The Tea In Tennessee

Sat, 1 Jul 2023

This week marks the anniversary of the Stonewall riots — the very reason we celebrate Pride in Jun...

Missing In Affirmative Action

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. In a decision a...

Betting On Bidenomics

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

President Joe Biden delivered an economic speech in Chicago on Wednesday outlining his vision for wh...

ISL Takes The L

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Moore v. Harper Tuesday, dismissing the “independent stat...

Wagner The Dog

Tue, 27 Jun 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed his nation on Monday for the first time since the short-l...

Russian To Conclusions

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia’s most notorious mercenary leader, sent an armed convoy toward Moscow ov...

Titan's Final Salute

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

The days-long search for the tourist submersible that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic cam...

Big Alito Lies

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito failed to disclose a luxury fishing trip he took in 2008 with hed...

The Paris Olympics Are Burning

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

On Tuesday, French financial police raided the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing co...

Like A Day Without Sunshine

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

SB 1718, Florida’s controversial new immigration law, is set to go into effect in less than two we...

Indian Child Welfare Act Upheld

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

In a major victory for Native American rights, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to uphold key provisions ...

Hut, Hut, No Hike

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

For the first time since March 2022, the Federal Reserve decided to pause interest rate hikes. The F...

Not Guilty, Not Buying It

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

At a Miami courthouse Tuesday, former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts ...

When It Arraigns, It Pours

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

Former President Donald Trump will appear in federal court in Miami today to be arraigned on 37 fede...

Another Day, Another Indictment

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

The Justice Department on Friday unsealed a 49-page federal indictment against former president Dona...

Trump, Indicted (Again)

Fri, 9 Jun 2023

In a social media post on Thursday, former president Donald Trump said he has been indicted on feder...

Down With Stand Your Ground

Thu, 8 Jun 2023

Smoke and haze from wildfires burning in Canada have blanketed much of the eastern United States. Se...

Flooding On Ukraine's Front Line

Wed, 7 Jun 2023

The Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine collapsed on Tuesday, unleashing floods and forcing thousands o...

We Won't Build This City

Tue, 6 Jun 2023

Hundreds of people crowded Atlanta’s City Hall yesterday to give public comment ahead of a city co...

Default Averted

Mon, 5 Jun 2023

President Biden signed the bipartisan debt ceiling bill into law, averting default and an economic c...

Labor Rights And SCOTUS Wrongs

Fri, 2 Jun 2023

In a blow to unions and organized labor, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a concrete company seek...

The Grand Old Parade of Losers

Thu, 1 Jun 2023

Former Gov. Chris Christie and former Vice President Mike Pence are expected to launch their 2024 pr...

McCarthy, Come Get Your Party

Wed, 31 May 2023

The debt limit deal struck between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is headed to a f...

Our Healthy News Diet Starts Tomorrow

Tue, 30 May 2023

As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close this May, we’re joined by Brian Beutler, Crooked...

Remembering the PI in AAPI

Fri, 26 May 2023

Every May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in the United States. The ...

DeSantis DeSucks

Thu, 25 May 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has officially entered the 2024 presidential race. In a glitchy announ...

One Year After Uvalde

Wed, 24 May 2023

A year ago today, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. As the com...

The Kids Are Queer, Here, And Won't Disappear

Tue, 23 May 2023

More than 100 trans youth from across the country gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday fo...

Fly Like The G-7

Mon, 22 May 2023

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy landed in Japan for the G7 summit, where he met...

How Queer and Trans Authors Are Fighting Book Bans

Fri, 19 May 2023

Publishing giant Penguin Random House and literary organization PEN America — along with a group o...

The Limit Does Exist

Thu, 18 May 2023

 As the clock ticks closer to the June 1st default deadline, top aides to President Biden and House...

A.I. Goes To D.C.

Wed, 17 May 2023

A former aide to Rudy Giuliani has sued him for alleged sexual assault, harassment, wage theft, and ...

DeSantis Defunds DEI

Tue, 16 May 2023

As debt limit negotiations continue between Republicans and the Biden Administration, Treasury Secre...

Make Turkey Free Again

Mon, 15 May 2023

Turkey’s presidential election is likely heading to a runoff on May 28th. Neither incumbent Recep ...

Title 42 Gets 86'd

Fri, 12 May 2023

Today marks the official end of Title 42, the Trump-era border policy that allowed U.S. border offic...

It's The End Of The COVID Emergency As We Know It

Thu, 11 May 2023

Today marks the official end of the nationwide COVID-19 public health emergency. It was declared in ...

The Legend of E. Jean

Wed, 10 May 2023

A Manhattan jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing – and later defam...

We See You, Tre'vell

Tue, 9 May 2023

Award-winning journalist and What A Day host Tre’vell Anderson has officially added “author” t...

Another Tragedy In Texas

Mon, 8 May 2023

Eight people were killed and at least seven others were wounded Saturday after a gunman opened fire ...

The Dishonorable Clarence Thomas

Fri, 5 May 2023

On Thursday, four members of the Proud Boys – including former leader Enrique Tarrio – were conv...

Not Lovin' It

Thu, 4 May 2023

On Wednesday, Russia accused Ukraine of trying to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone at...

Default In Our Stars

Wed, 3 May 2023

With the debt ceiling deadline now projected for June 1st, House Democrats are taking action in case...

Write Or Dies

Tue, 2 May 2023

The Writer’s Guild of America, the union representing thousands of film and TV writers, has called...

Trans Rights or Fillibust

Mon, 1 May 2023

For more than two months, Nebraska State Senator Machaela Cavanaugh has filibustered nearly every si...

The Many Trials of Donald Trump

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

Writer E. Jean Carroll, who is suing Donald Trump for allegedly raping her in 1996, faced hours of c...

Let Her Speak

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

Montana Republicans voted to censure Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the first openly transgender pers...

Supremely Sus

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

There are growing calls for the Supreme Court to adopt stronger ethics rules. It follows revelations...

All Tuckered Out

Tue, 25 Apr 2023

In a series of high-profile cable news firings Monday morning, Fox News announced that the network a...

Until Debt Do Us Part

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

The Supreme Court issued a decision preserving access to the abortion drug mifepristone, meaning acc...

Why Buzzfeed News Left Us

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

The Pentagon is moving American troops to Sudan to prepare for a possible evacuation of the U.S. Emb...

Full Supreme Court Press

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

In the latest in the fight against mifepristone, the Supreme Court has delayed its ruling on the abo...

The Defamation Trial That Never Was

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

The defamation trial brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News was called off after both p...

Ceiling Our Fate

Tue, 18 Apr 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a one-year debt ceiling increase on Monday, calling the idea a...

No Fox Given

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

The defamation lawsuit brought by the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems against Fo...

It All Went Down in the Discord

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

The FBI has arrested 21-year old Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard sus...

Poetic Justins

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

In a unanimous vote, county officials sent State Representative Justin Pearson back to his seat in T...

Ain’t No River Wide Enough

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit against Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, accu...

No Mifepristone Unturned

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

The Justice Department has appealed a Texas judge's decision that suspends the FDA's nationwide appr...

We Didn't Volunteer For This

Fri, 7 Apr 2023

Tennessee House Republicans voted to expel two of three Democratic lawmakers for "disorderly behavio...

All I Do Is Winsconsin No Matter What

Thu, 6 Apr 2023

Judge Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving liberals control of the s...

Florida Man Charged With Fraud

Wed, 5 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records ...

It's Arraigning Men

Tue, 4 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump will make his first court appearance in Manhattan today, to answer to ...

We Don't Mean To Bragg

Mon, 3 Apr 2023

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury, making him the first U.S. ...

Trump Indicted!

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

We quickly recap the reported indictment against former President Trump for his alleged role to cove...

Schultz's Medium Roast

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testified before the Senate HELP Committee on Wednesday. Lawmake...

Pence and Sensibility

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

A federal judge ruled that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify in the Justice Department's...

Another Mass Tragedy In Tennessee

Tue, 28 Mar 2023

Six people – including three young children – were killed in a shooting at an elementary school ...

The Times Need A Changing

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

Severe weather continued across the Deep South, after intense tornadoes struck Mississippi and Alaba...

Let's TikTok About It

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before Congress Thursday. Lawmakers grilled him for more than five ho...

Interest Takes A Hike

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

As Donald Trump faces possible criminal charges in New York, the former president faces another, and...

The Unindicted

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

Contrary to what he told his supporters, former President Donald Trump was not arrested on Tuesday —...

Global Warning

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

The United Nations released a major report on climate change yesterday, offering perhaps the most co...

Lock Me Up

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

Former President Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested tomorrow in connection with the yearslo...

Banking On Each Other

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

Eleven of the largest U.S. lenders agreed to deposit $30 billion into First Republic Bank in an effo...

Stormy In The Northeast

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

A federal judge in Texas held a hearing on Wednesday in a case that could block access to the widely...

Big Trouble In North Carolina

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

The Pentagon says two Russian fighter jets hit an American surveillance drone over the Black Sea, fo...

(Don't) Bank On It

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

Following the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the federal government has taken drastic actio...

Oscars Still So White

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

Silicon Valley Bank abruptly shut down on Friday, in what was the second biggest bank failure in U.S...

I Like Big Budgets And I Cannot Lie

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

President Biden unveiled his $6.8 trillion budget plan for the 2024 fiscal year. The plan would cut ...

Iran’s Women Persist

Thu, 9 Mar 2023

A fresh round of public anger is growing in Iran, and the focus is now on a series of suspected scho...

Women's Misery Month

Wed, 8 Mar 2023

Five women who were denied abortions have filed a lawsuit against Texas over the state’s near-tota...

Florida, Man

Tue, 7 Mar 2023

Florida’s 2023 legislative session begins today. Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled state legi...

Another Rail Fail

Mon, 6 Mar 2023

A second Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio over the weekend, just over a month after the crash...

TikTok On The Clock

Fri, 3 Mar 2023

The House Ethics Committee is officially investigating New York Rep. George Santos over whether he b...

No Guts, No Lori

Thu, 2 Mar 2023

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid on Tuesday, becoming the first one-term mayor ...

SCOTUS, Throw Us A Loan

Wed, 1 Mar 2023

The Supreme Court heard arguments over President Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in ...

All Tea All Shade On Tennessee

Tue, 28 Feb 2023

The Biden administration has promised new measures to crack down on child labor. It follows a recent...

No Chill For Abortion Pills

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

Abortion rights advocates are bracing for a ruling in a case that could revoke the FDA’s decades-o...

A Year Of War and Loss In Ukraine

Fri, 24 Feb 2023

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Rolling Stone correspondent ...

Need We Say Moore

Thu, 23 Feb 2023

Wes Moore made history this year when he was sworn in as Maryland’s first Black governor. He joins...

Supreme Court Packers

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

President Biden reaffirmed his support for Ukraine during a fiery speech in Poland on Tuesday. His a...

The HBCU Vaulting Into Gymnastics History

Tue, 21 Feb 2023

Fisk University made history in January when it became the first historically Black college to launc...

Unidentified Flying Thingamabobbins

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

Days after three objects were shot down over North American air space, President Biden confirmed the...

The Trainborne Toxic Event

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

It’s been nearly two weeks since a freight train derailed outside of East Palestine, Ohio and the ...

How Many More?

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

A shooting at Michigan State University Monday night left at least three students dead and five othe...

Breaking Down The "Anti-Trans Hate Machine"

Tue, 14 Feb 2023

For years, transgender activists and journalists have criticized the New York Times and other mainst...

99 Surveillance Balloons Go By

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

After the U.S. military downed a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean last week, three more “...

The Fate of Football (Players) with America Dissected and Garrett Bush

Sun, 12 Feb 2023

It's Super Bowl Sunday! We're pleased to present the latest episode of America Dissected, tackling A...

How Syria's Civil War Slows Earthquake Relief

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

The death toll from the earthquakes that have devastated Turkey and Syria passed 21,000 people on Th...

Going Deep With The Veep

Thu, 9 Feb 2023

Despite some combative moments from Republican lawmakers, Tuesday's State of the Union address was m...

SOTU Goes The Nation

Wed, 8 Feb 2023

President Biden delivered the annual State of the Union address Tuesday night, speaking to a divided...

The Search For Survivors In Syria And Turkey

Tue, 7 Feb 2023

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks struck Turkey and Syria early Monday...

Honoring The Legacy Of The Clotilda Descendants

Fri, 3 Feb 2023

To kick off our series on Black History Month, What A Day host Juanita Tolliver sits down with Veda ...

Remembering Tyre Nichols

Thu, 2 Feb 2023

Tyre Nichols was remembered at a funeral service in Memphis, Tennessee on Wednesday. His family spok...

COVID Is Over! (If You Want)

Wed, 1 Feb 2023

The Biden administration announced it will end the national and public health emergency declarations...

The Calm Before the Stormy

Tue, 31 Jan 2023

The Manhattan district attorney’s office started presenting evidence to a grand jury about former ...

Bearing Witness To Police Brutality

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

Memphis authorities released video footage of the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols, who was pulled ove...

Five Memphis Cops Charged In Death Of Tyre Nichols

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second degree murder for the killing of T...

Tanks Giving

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

After weeks of pressure, President Biden announced he would send Ukraine M1 Abrams tanks. The decisi...

Senate’s Got Bad Blood

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the 20...

A Look At Mt. Meigs' Dark Past

Tue, 24 Jan 2023

Host Josie Duffy Rice tells us about “Unreformed,” her investigative podcast series about Mt. Me...

Another American City In Mourning

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

The city of Monterey Park, California is reeling after a gunman opened fire inside a dance studio Sa...

A SCOTUS Whodunnit

Fri, 20 Jan 2023

As expected, the U.S. government ran up against its legal debt limit of $31.381 trillion on Thursday...

There Will Be Blood (And PFAS)

Thu, 19 Jan 2023

Thinx, one of the most recognizable brands for period underwear, agreed to pay out $5 million to set...

Debt On It

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. is on track to hit its debt ceiling by Thursday. The f...

Hawai'i: An American Coup

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

Today marks 130 years since the United States illegally overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy. Healani Son...

Joe's Garage

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate how classified documents...

Liar Liar Santos On Fire

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed early Wednesday morning after a Federa...

The Wettest Coast

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

Another intense winter storm slammed into California Tuesday, bringing heavy rain, wind, and intense...

All That Glitters Isn't Globe

Tue, 10 Jan 2023

The first federal death penalty trial under the Biden administration began in New York on Monday aga...

The Jan 6th Of The Tropics

Mon, 9 Jan 2023

After four days and 15 rounds of voting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy was finally elected Speaker of the Hous...

Kevin's 11

Fri, 6 Jan 2023

Once again, Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the votes he needed in the eleventh round of voting...

Kevin Knows He's Miserable Now

Thu, 5 Jan 2023

The House of Representatives adjourned for a second day without electing a new speaker, after Rep. K...

McCarthy Schism

Wed, 4 Jan 2023

Republicans made history on Tuesday by failing to select a new House Speaker on the first vote for t...

2023 And Me

Tue, 3 Jan 2023

For our first episode of 2023, we talk about the big stories our hosts are watching this year. Stori...

WAD Wrapped 2022

Fri, 16 Dec 2022

As the year comes to a close, we look back at the stories we thought were most memorable in 2022. We...

The Wheels On The Omnibus

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan agreement on a spending bill to keep the government funded — but...

It’s Not Easy Being Sam Bankman-Fried

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Federal authorities officially charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with multiple counts of crimina...

The Questions Surrounding The Death Of Grant Wahl

Tue, 13 Dec 2022

The sports world continues to mourn American soccer journalist Grant Wahl, whose body was returned t...

We Need To Talk About Kevin De Leon

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

Congress has until Friday to reach an agreement on a spending package that will fund the government ...

Welcome Home, Brittney Griner

Fri, 9 Dec 2022

WNBA star Brittney Griner is finally free from Russian imprisonment, 294 days after she was first ar...

Donald Trump Presents: Storage Wars

Thu, 8 Dec 2022

The Washington Post reported that a team hired by former President Donald Trump’s lawyers found at...

The Art Of Warnock

Wed, 7 Dec 2022

Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock is heading back to D.C. for a full 6-year term, after defeating Repu...

Revisiting The Ongoing Red Hill Water Crisis in O’ahu

Tue, 6 Dec 2022

Today is election day in Georgia’s Senate runoff. Voters are headed to the polls to decide between...

South Carolina Takes The Lead

Mon, 5 Dec 2022

The rule-making arm of the Democratic National Committee voted to reshuffle the presidential primary...

Remembering Shirley Chisholm, A Catalyst For Change

Sat, 3 Dec 2022

In this special bonus episode of What a Day, we look back on the life and legacy of Shirley Chisholm...

Student Debt Forgiveness Goes To Court

Fri, 2 Dec 2022

President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program is headed to the Supreme Court. While the plan ...

Full Hakeem Ahead

Thu, 1 Dec 2022

House Democrats voted unanimously Wednesday to make New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries their new l...

Happy Birthday Ms. Chis

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a directive to city agencies on Tuesday to begin involuntarily...

Arizona Iced Election Results

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Protesters in China continue to voice their discontent over the country's strict "zero Covid" polici...

Another Week of Gun Violence in the U.S.

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

A mass shooting left five people dead and dozens of others injured last week at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ ba...

All About That Karen Bass

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

After leading congressional Democrats for over 20 years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she wo...

Florida Man Makes Announcement

Thu, 17 Nov 2022

Whether we like it or not, the 2024 campaign season has officially kicked off, after Donald Trump an...

The Kids Are All Left

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

Republicans have essentially secured a House majority for the next two years. But the GOP is in disa...

Academic Workers Of The World Unite

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

48,000 academic workers across the University of California’s 10 campuses walked off the job on Mo...

We Did It Again, Joe

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

Democrats have officially retained their majority in the U.S. Senate, after incumbent Nevada Senator...

SCOTUS And The Future Of Indigenous Sovereignty

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

As the vote count continues from Tuesday's midterm elections, both parties are eyeing next month's S...

All Eyes On Georgia (Again)

Thu, 10 Nov 2022

Pollsters and pundits warned there would be a “red wave” of Republican victories on Election Day...

Stuck In The Midterms With You

Wed, 9 Nov 2022

Election Day has wrapped, but now the wait begins as votes are counted and results pour in from acro...

The Midterm Voter's Guide To The Galaxy

Tue, 8 Nov 2022

Today is Election Day. And Shaniqua McClendon, Crooked’s political director, explains what you nee...

A Twitter Pill To Swallow

Mon, 7 Nov 2022

Elon Musk, who recently acquired Twitter for $44 billion, laid off about half of the company’s sta...

True Crime Rates

Fri, 4 Nov 2022

In the run-up to the midterm elections, Republicans have made crime a central issue in their attacks...

For God's Sake, Vote

Thu, 3 Nov 2022

President Biden on Wednesday made his closing argument to voters ahead of Election Day. In a speech ...

Who Watches The Poll Watchers

Wed, 2 Nov 2022

As Democrats make their final push on the campaign trail ahead of Election Day, election deniers are...

Affirmative Action’s Last Stand

Tue, 1 Nov 2022

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over two cases that will decide the fate of affirmative act...

The Catastrophic Effects Of Climate Change Hit Nigeria

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked in their San Francisco...

Sayonara Bolsonaro (We Hope)

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

Brazilians will vote for their next president on Sunday — an election that could be the most decis...

Toxic Jobs May Be Hazardous To Your Health

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

Pennsylvania Senate candidates John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz met on Tuesday for one of the most highl...

Feeling Frost In Florida

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

Arizona election officials have referred at least six cases of alleged voter intimidation at ballot ...

It's Rishi, Bitch

Tue, 25 Oct 2022

There’s growing concern among Western countries that Russia could be planning a false flag operati...

Debt Relief It Or Not

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

A federal appeals court has temporarily put a hold on the Biden administration’s student debt forg...

No Truss, No Fuss

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

Liz Truss abruptly resigned as Britain’s prime minister on Thursday, after just 45 days in office ...

Defund The Florida Election Police

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

In August, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of several people accused of illegall...

One More Reason To Roe To The Polls

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

President Biden promised to codify abortion access into federal law next year if voters elect more D...

Understanding Russia's "Kamikaze" Drones

Tue, 18 Oct 2022

Another deadly round of Russian attacks hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Monday morning – this t...

One Month Of Women-Led Protests In Iran

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

It’s been one month since women began burning their hijabs and leading daily protests in the stree...

Don-Subpoena Relationship

Fri, 14 Oct 2022

The House select committee investigating the January 6th insurrection held its latest — and potent...

Angry White Guys Gone Wild

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

A jury in Connecticut ordered Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion in da...

No Country For Extremist Election Officials

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat, is hanging on to ...

No Digas Nada, Nury

Tue, 11 Oct 2022

Russia launched its biggest attacks against Ukraine in months, targeting at least 14 regions – inc...

Kerch Strait Bridge Is Falling Down

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

Over the weekend, 20 Russian missiles hit civilian areas of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people...

Puff Puff Pardon

Fri, 7 Oct 2022

President Biden announced Thursday he will pardon federal marijuana convictions. The order will impa...

Can Russia Take Its Foot Off My OPEC?

Thu, 6 Oct 2022

President Biden visited Florida on Wednesday to survey the damage from Hurricane Ian, which has left...

Herschel Walk Of Shame

Wed, 5 Oct 2022

Conservative leaders have rallied behind Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, follow...

L.A. Hopes For A New Sheriff In Town

Tue, 4 Oct 2022

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday, weeks after Hurricane F...

I'm Sorry, Justice Jackson

Mon, 3 Oct 2022

Florida's death toll from Hurricane Ian soared to at least 74 over the weekend, and hundreds of thou...

Tracking The Devastation Of Hurricane Ian

Fri, 30 Sep 2022

After leaving a trail of destruction in southern Florida, Hurricane Ian is expected to make a second...

Hurricane Ian Makes Landfall In Florida

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

Hurricane Ian reached Florida Wednesday afternoon as one of the strongest storms to hit the U.S. mai...

Florida Prepares For Hurricane Ian

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across Cuba and is barreling toward Florida, where it’s expect...

The Pound And The Fury

Tue, 27 Sep 2022

The British pound hit a record low against the U.S. dollar on Monday. We discuss the economic plan b...

Move Over, Monkeypox

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Almost 750 demonstrators were arrested in Russia on Saturday. They were protesting president Vladimi...

How Favre We've Fallen

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

Outrage continues in Iran over the death of a woman detained by that country's "morality police," an...

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Fraud

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald...

You Can't Always Declassify What You Want

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

The legal battle over sensitive government documents seized from Mar-a-Lago continued on Tuesday, as...

Nobody Puts COVID In A Corner

Tue, 20 Sep 2022

Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest Monday, marking the end of the ten days of public mourning since...

Fiona Leaves Puerto Rico In The Dark

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

The entire island of Puerto Rico is without power after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Sunday. Mor...

Red-State Governors Use People As Props

Fri, 16 Sep 2022

The White House announced a tentative agreement with freight rail companies and the unions represent...

A Freight Knot

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

Tens of thousands of railroad workers could go on strike Friday, even as top-level negotiators and L...

No Vacation From Inflation

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

The latest Consumer Price Index report caught investors off-guard Tuesday, after it showed that infl...

Not Everybody Loves Royalty

Tue, 13 Sep 2022

Mourners are paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as her remains make the journey to London a...

Ukraine On The Offensive

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

Yesterday marked 21 years since the September 11th attacks, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives and rem...

Britain Mourns Queen Elizabeth II

Fri, 9 Sep 2022

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, passed away on Thursday. She wa...

Welcome To The Hot Hell California

Thu, 8 Sep 2022

As millions of Californians were trying to stay cool amid a scorching heat wave on Tuesday, overwhel...

The Delayed Side Of The Moon

Wed, 7 Sep 2022

NASA was forced to scrub the test launch for its Artemis I moon mission for the second time on Satur...

Going Into Labor Day

Fri, 2 Sep 2022

Labor Day weekend is coming up, and it's a great time to celebrate American workers. We check in wit...

Boosting Makes Me Feel Good

Thu, 1 Sep 2022

The FDA authorized the first new versions of the Covid-19 vaccines since they were introduced in lat...

Mississippi’s Crisis Over Troubled Water

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

The city of Jackson, Mississippi is under a state of emergency because of ongoing problems with its ...

Understanding Trump's Request For A "Special Master"

Tue, 30 Aug 2022

A federal judge has indicated that she may appoint a “special master” to review the documents th...

Kaiser Mental Health Care Workers Strike For Change

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

The Justice Department released the affidavit that led to the FBI search on former President Donald ...

Day Of The Affidavit

Fri, 26 Aug 2022

A redacted version of the affidavit that justified the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...

Student Debt, You’re Cancelled

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

President Biden announced on Wednesday a plan that would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for mil...

Ukraine Celebrates A Somber Independence Day

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day, marking 31 years since it broke from the Soviet Union. It als...

Protecting Your Data In A Post-Roe World

Tue, 23 Aug 2022

A teenager and her mother are facing criminal charges for allegedly violating Nebraska's abortion ba...

Now That's What I Call Climate Chaos

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Extreme weather is taking a toll around the globe, with intense storms battering parts of Europe, an...

Tip Of The Weisselberg

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

A federal judge in Florida announced Thursday he is "inclined" to release parts of the affidavit tha...

Better COVID Messaging? We'll CDC About That

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

CDC director Rochelle Walensky announced Wednesday the agency is making big structural and cultural ...

A Gay Doctor Talks Monkeypox

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

The CDC recently reported that new monkeypox cases in New York City appear to be slowing down, thoug...

Georgia Grand Jury On My Mind

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

More allies of former President Donald Trump will have to appear before a special grand jury in Geor...

Caught In The Espionage Act

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

The Justice Department is investigating former President Donald Trump for potentially violating thre...

Trump Gets Merrick-Rolled

Fri, 12 Aug 2022

Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unexpected announcement yesterday to address the FBI search...

The 45th Pleads The 5th

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

Former President Donald Trump pleaded the Fifth Amendment during depositions for the civil case agai...

Winter White House Down

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida property Mar-A-Lago on Monday. A New York Times source says ...

Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Sentenced In Federal Court

Tue, 9 Aug 2022

Three men were sentenced in federal court for their role in the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arber...

Highs And Lows of the Climate Bill

Mon, 8 Aug 2022

Hot Take’s Mary Annaïse Heglar joins us to talk about the Senate passing the Inflation Reduction ...

Monkeypox Is Now A Federal Health Emergency

Fri, 5 Aug 2022

The U.S. declared a federal public health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak on Thursday after th...

Keeping Up With The Alex Joneses

Thu, 4 Aug 2022

Far-right talk show host Alex Jones took the stand on Wednesday in one of his many defamation cases....

Yes We Kansas

Wed, 3 Aug 2022

Abortion access in Kansas will be preserved because yesterday the state overwhelmingly voted against...

Kansas Votes Today To Protect Abortion Access

Tue, 2 Aug 2022

Kansas votes today on whether the state’s constitution should still explicitly protect the right t...

Biden's Rebound Relationship With COVID

Mon, 1 Aug 2022

Indiana state lawmakers on Saturday moved one step closer to banning nearly all abortions. The vote ...

One Small Step For Manchin, One Giant Leap For Mankind

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

Senate Democrats reached a deal on a historic climate spending package – thanks to a surprise reve...

Biden’s Plan To Get Brittney Griner Home

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

The U.S. announced Wednesday that it has officially proposed a deal to Russia for the release of WNB...

Brittney Griner’s Defense

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

WNBA star Brittney Griner is set to testify in Russian court today for the first time since being de...

Indigenous Reactions To The Pope's Apology

Tue, 26 Jul 2022

Pope Francis apologized on Monday to a crowd of survivors, advocates and others in Alberta, Canada, ...

Tour De Francis

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

About 71 million Americans live in places that were dangerously hot on Sunday. Temperatures from Tex...

Hot Insurrection Hearings Summer

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

President Biden tested positive for COVID. He’s fine, but remember — everyone 6 months and over ...

Pox News

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

A bipartisan group of senators announced a new bill on Wednesday that aims to protect election integ...

The Haunted Manchin

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

The House passed the Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday with bipartisan support. The law would mand...

Location Sharing With Homeland Security

Tue, 19 Jul 2022

Heat waves are devastating people in Europe and North America this summer. In the U.K. it’s hotter...

Nearly 400 Cops Failed At Uvalde

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

None of the 400 law enforcement officials on location at the Uvalde mass school shooting in May did ...

The Very Uphill Battle To Protect Abortion In Congress

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

The House will vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act today in an effort to codify abortion rig...

Lost In Inflation

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

Consumer prices are up 9.1% over this time last year, according to new inflation data from the Burea...

COVID Burnout Notice

Wed, 13 Jul 2022

As the U.S. sees another rise in COVID cases, White House officials are working to give all adults a...

Jan 6th Back, Alright!

Tue, 12 Jul 2022

The House Select Committee investigating January 6th is back in action with another hearing today. D...

Shinzo Abe's Assassination And What It Means For Japan

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

President Biden signed an executive order on Friday to try to protect access to abortion, but it’s...

The Great British Boot Out

Fri, 8 Jul 2022

Embattled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he’ll be stepping down after three years ...

The Victims Of The July 4th Highland Park Shooting

Thu, 7 Jul 2022

During an Independence Day parade this Monday, a 21-year-old man in Highland Park, Illinois shot and...

The Courts v. Climate (From our friends at Hot Take)

Fri, 1 Jul 2022

The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday that limits the ability of the Environmental Protectio...

SCOTUS Ends A Low Term On A Low Note

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Wednesday — one of which dramatically increased the power...

Ketchup On The Latest January 6th News

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

The latest House January 6th hearing was perhaps the most explosive to date with testimony from Cass...

Drag Queen History Hour

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Monday. There have also been several legal challenges to th...

The Fight For Abortion Rights Isn't Over

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, and throughout the weekend people took...

SCOTUS Shoots Down A NY Gun Control Law

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court announced more rulings on Thursday — one of which dealt a huge blow to gun contr...

Ready, Aim, Bipartisan Gun Control Deal

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

The Senate unveiled a highly-anticipated, bipartisan gun control bill on Tuesday. The chamber voted ...

The "Abject Failure" Of Law Enforcement At Uvalde

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

The January 6th House committee held its fourth hearing on Tuesday, and we learned more about the ef...

Some VP That I Used To Know

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

We're about halfway through the January 6th committee hearings scheduled for this month. Yesterday, ...

Goodbye, Yellowstone Road

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court released opinions on Wednesday in six different cases across a range of issues inc...

The Bear Market Necessities

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

Inflation is at a four-decade high, and on Monday, stocks fell to their lowest levels since March 20...

The Bitter Reality Of Tennessee's Mandatory Minimums

Tue, 14 Jun 2022

The second public January 6th hearing was yesterday. The House committee focused on the lie that the...

Gun Control Deals N' Roses

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

Protesters in hundreds of cities around the country rallied against gun violence, last weekend. And ...

Live From DC It's January 6th!

Fri, 10 Jun 2022

Last night was the first of several public hearings by the January 6th House committee, with the pur...

Don't Touch That Dial, The Coup Hearing Is On

Thu, 9 Jun 2022

The January 6th House committee finally begins its hearings tonight. The committee intends to lay ou...

Achy Breaky World Economy

Wed, 8 Jun 2022

Congressmembers yesterday and today are hearing from the family members of the victims of recent mas...

Can Austin City Limit Abortion Criminalization?

Tue, 7 Jun 2022

As abortion access continues to decline on the local level, lawmakers and advocates across the count...

Another Weekend Of Gun Violence In America

Mon, 6 Jun 2022

There were at least five mass shootings this weekend in a matter of 27 hours, according to the Gun V...

Don't Rainbow-Wash On My Parade

Fri, 3 Jun 2022

June is Pride Month, the unfortunate time when many corporations claim they support LGBTQ+ people, b...

The Depp-Heard Verdict And Its Social Impact

Thu, 2 Jun 2022

A jury found that both Johnny Depp and Amber Heard were liable for defamation in their lawsuits agai...

The Life And Legacy Of George Floyd

Wed, 1 Jun 2022

The first of several funeral services started for the victims killed by a gunman at a school in Uval...

The Police Response To The Uvalde Shooting

Fri, 27 May 2022

Parents and other community members in Uvalde, Texas, are criticizing local police for its handling ...

Texas Mourns The Children Killed At Robb Elementary School

Thu, 26 May 2022

Officials have not confirmed all the identities of the 21 victims – nearly all children – of th...

Another Deadly Shooting At An American Elementary School

Wed, 25 May 2022

A gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on...

Don't Believe Every COVID Count You Read

Tue, 24 May 2022

COVID cases are rising again in the U.S. In just the past month alone, the average number of confirm...

Title 42 Won't Be 86'd

Mon, 23 May 2022

A federal judge ruled that the Biden administration could not end a pandemic-related border restrict...

Panic! At The New York Redistrict

Fri, 20 May 2022

Oklahoma’s legislature passed the country’s strictest abortion bill. The ban goes further than T...

Primary Go Round

Thu, 19 May 2022

Following Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary elections, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman won the Dem...

An Abortion Access Win For Michigan

Wed, 18 May 2022

President Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, yesterday to speak with the families of victims of th...

Racism Fueled Buffalo's Mass Shooting

Tue, 17 May 2022

Federal officials are investigating Saturday’s shooting in Buffalo, New York, as both a hate crime...

Rallying for Reproductive Rights

Mon, 16 May 2022

A white gunman killed 10 people and injured three others on Saturday at a grocery store in a histori...

We Need To Talk About Kevin McCarthy

Fri, 13 May 2022

The January 6th commission issued subpoenas to five Republican Congressmembers including House Minor...

A Failed Attempt To Codify Roe with Sen Kirsten Gillibrand

Thu, 12 May 2022

The Senate failed to pass a bill on Wednesday that would effectively codify the right to an abortion...

How Data Tracking Could Be Used To Prosecute Abortion

Wed, 11 May 2022

As the Supreme Court considers overturning or scaling back Roe, online privacy and pro-choice advoca...

Voters Could Protect Abortion Rights In Michigan

Tue, 10 May 2022

Michigan has a 1931 law on the books that criminalizes abortion. That law has not been enforced sinc...

How Pro-Life Becomes Pro-Incarceration

Mon, 9 May 2022

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion would become illegal in at least 26 states. That means two ma...

Providing Abortions In Uncertain Times

Fri, 6 May 2022

Abortion providers and advocates in several states have been scrambling to figure out how to process...

Reactions To What Could Be The End Of Roe

Thu, 5 May 2022

Abortion providers across the country are rushing to figure out their next steps in light of this we...

Imagining A World Without Roe

Wed, 4 May 2022

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said that the leaked draft majority opinion on overturning ...

SCOTUS Seems Poised to Overturn Roe V. Wade

Tue, 3 May 2022

Politico has obtained what is says are leaked documents showing the Supreme Court is poised to strik...

Off-Peak Pandemic

Mon, 2 May 2022

The current COVID wave in the U.S. is relatively mild considering what we’ve seen in the past. For...

FDA Says Last Call For Menthol

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Moderna said on Thursday that they were asking the FDA for emergency use authorization for their vac...

Reckoning With Racist Policing in Minneapolis

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

The Minnesota Department of Human Rights found that Minneapolis and the city’s police department e...

Harvard Faces Its Legacy Of Slavery

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Harvard University pledged $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. In an email on Tuesday, the ...

Musk Rules Everything Around Me

Tue, 26 Apr 2022

Elon Musk reached a deal with Twitter on Monday to take over the company for roughly $44 billion. Mi...

Delete Your Shared Netflix Account

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

The Supreme Court is in session this week and will hear two cases that could have a big impact. The ...

The Tragic Kingdom Of Ron DeSantis

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

The GOP-led Florida state legislature gave the final stamps of approval to a pair of proposals on Th...

Run For Something (You Better Clerk)

Thu, 21 Apr 2022

Russia gave Ukrainian forces in Mariupol an ultimatum earlier this week: surrender or die. Russian-b...

Puff Puff Pass Laws Decriminalizing Weed

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

Hours after a federal judge in Florida overturned the CDC’s mask mandate for public transportation...

Maskers, Prepare For Takeoff

Tue, 19 Apr 2022

A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, voided the nationwide travel mask mandate on Monday. Last week, t...

South Carolina Sets An Execution By Firing Squad

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

The city of Mariupol has been one of the worst sites of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While Ukrain...

Defending Trans Youth in Alabama

Fri, 15 Apr 2022

Alabama became the first state to criminalize the act of providing gender-affirming medical care to ...

The War On Roe in Oklahoma

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

New York Police arrested a suspect in relation to Tuesday’s mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway. Fr...

A Mass Shooting On An NYC Subway Train

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

A mass shooting took place on a New York City subway train, Tuesday morning. According to New York’...

Give Up The Ghost Guns

Tue, 12 Apr 2022

President Biden announced a new rule that would prohibit the unregulated online sale of “ghost gun...

How A Miscarriage In Texas Led To A Murder Charge

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

Texas authorities arrested 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera, last week, on murder charges for what the lo...

Hot Takes On The New IPCC Report

Fri, 8 Apr 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice ...

Vaccine Makeover: Fall Edition with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Thu, 7 Apr 2022

The Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed Amir Locke earlier this year will not face any cr...

Not Ready, Not Set, Redistricting

Wed, 6 Apr 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an emotional address to the United Nations Security Coun...

Same-Day Solidarity At Amazon with Chris Smalls

Tue, 5 Apr 2022

Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, New York, voted to form the company’s first union in th...

Joe Time Like The Present To Forgive Student Loans

Mon, 4 Apr 2022

Signs of a massacre in Bucha, a town near Kyiv, have intensified calls for investigations into possi...

BA.2 The Bone

Thu, 31 Mar 2022

The Biden administration will reportedly end its use of Title 42 by late May. The policy effectively...

Life As A Ukrainian Refugee, Part II

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

Over 3.9 million people have fled Ukraine and become refugees since the beginning of the Russia-Ukra...

Ginni Thomas The Text Engine

Tue, 29 Mar 2022

The House select committee investigating the insurrection is reportedly soon going to seek an interv...

The Fight For Trans Liberation Is Everyone's Fight with Raquel Willis

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

On Saturday, President Biden gave a speech from Warsaw, Poland, where he talked about Russia’s inv...

Defense Against DeSantis

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

President Biden spoke in Brussels after meeting with European allies on Thursday, and announced that...

Life As A Ukrainian Refugee

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced her second day of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on...

Healthcare Is Under Attack In Ukraine

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

Tuesday was the second day of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings....

The Impact Of Texas's Abortion Ban, Six Months In

Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Ukraine rejected Russia’s demand that soldiers surrender the city of Mariupol, on Monday, with Ukr...

Conservatives Dig Deep To Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol continued through the weekend, with missiles stri...

Week Two of Teachers Striking In Minneapolis

Fri, 18 Mar 2022

Teachers in the Minneapolis Public School district are in the second week of their strike, led by Th...

Zelensky's Address To Congress And The View From Lviv

Thu, 17 Mar 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed U.S. Congress on Wednesday to ask for a number of t...

Hong Kong's Surge And The Pitfalls Of 'Zero COVID'

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

A missile strike on apartment buildings in the Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on Tuesday killed at leas...

Baseball's Back, Alright!

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

On Monday, delegations from Russia and Ukraine met again for talks in hopes of reaching a ceasefire,...

Season Premiere Of COVID Season Three

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

Russia launched 30 missiles at a Ukrainian military base over the weekend, killing at least 35 peopl...

Russia's Economic Isolation

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

Russian forces continued to advance in Ukraine after diplomatic talks between the two countries fail...

The Humanitarian Crisis In Ukraine

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

A Russian airstrike destroyed a maternity hospital in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wed...

Too Much Of A Fuel Thing

Wed, 9 Mar 2022

President Biden banned the import of Russian oil and natural gas into the United States on Tuesday, ...

Fighting For A Living Wage In Hawai'i

Tue, 8 Mar 2022

Today, workers in Hawai’i are rallying at their State Capitol to raise the state’s minimum wage ...

Supporting Ukraine While Avoiding Direct War With Russia

Mon, 7 Mar 2022

Today marks 12 days since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the weekend, the violenc...

The Fight Against Texas's Anti-Trans Agenda

Fri, 4 Mar 2022

Russian and Ukrainian delegates agreed to what’s being called “humanitarian corridors” so trap...

Evaluating Biden's Record On Gun Control with David Hogg

Thu, 3 Mar 2022

Russian forces captured the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson yesterday, making it the first to fal...

Reacting To Biden's First State Of The Union with Jon Favreau

Wed, 2 Mar 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued into its sixth day, with explosions shaking the cities of K...

Running As A Progressive In Texas with Jessica Cisneros

Tue, 1 Mar 2022

On Monday, Russian forces made progress in their efforts to encircle Ukraine’s capital Kyiv despit...

Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes History

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

Ukrainian officials will reportedly talk with Russia as early as today on the border of Ukraine and ...

"Don't Say Gay" Passes In Florida And Russia Advances In Ukraine

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine early Thursday morning, and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said tha...

Russia Attacks Ukraine

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

In a televised speech early Thursday Moscow-time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “sp...

How Putin's Aggressions Are Playing Out In Ukraine

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

President Biden announced sanctions against Russia on Tuesday while referring to President Vladimir ...

Russia Recognizes New Territories And That's Far More Aggressive Than It Sounds

Tue, 22 Feb 2022

The Russia-Ukraine crisis ramped up this past weekend, and in a controversial address on Monday, Rus...

Snow Long, Beijing

Fri, 18 Feb 2022

On Thursday, there was a big spike in shelling across the front line between the Ukrainian military ...

Reading Between The Strains with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Thu, 17 Feb 2022

On Wednesday, federal officials announced upcoming guidance changes, which reflects yet another new ...

Kyiv Your Friends Close And Your Enemies Closer

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the military has ordered some Russian troops n...

The Notly-Anticipated Debut Of The Texas Voting Law

Tue, 15 Feb 2022

Monday marked the start of in-person early voting in Texas ahead of the state’s March 1st primary....

The Little Trucker Blockade That Could

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

Canadian police began arresting those who were part of the ongoing so-called “Freedom Convoy” pr...

I Know Who You Called Last January with Rep. Zoe Lofgren

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

The House January 6th Committee has found gaps in official phone logs from the White House on the da...

A Slow Descent Into Maskless

Thu, 10 Feb 2022

Several states announced plans to lift mask mandates this week, but the federal government is taking...

On Race, The NFL Fumbles The Ball

Wed, 9 Feb 2022

This weekend's Super Bowl LVI comes as the NFL is being sued by Brian Flores, a former head coach of...

Inside The Unionization Effort At Amazon

Tue, 8 Feb 2022

The White House released a report yesterday detailing how it wants to increase union participation a...

Maps, They Don't Draw You Like I Draw You with Michael Li

Mon, 7 Feb 2022

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Republican-drawn congressional and state legis...

Showing Up For Trans Rights with Chase Strangio

Fri, 4 Feb 2022

South Dakota became the first state to pass an anti-trans bill in 2022 yesterday, and according to a...

Where We Stand In The Fight For Reproductive Justice

Thu, 3 Feb 2022

Roe v. Wade was issued just over 49 years ago, and in the months ahead, we're faced with the very re...

Police Killings And The DOJ

Wed, 2 Feb 2022

The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van D...

Get Your Bans Off My Books with George M. Johnson

Tue, 1 Feb 2022

As we celebrate the beginning of Black History Month, conservatives are actively and aggressively si...

Are You Putin Or Are You Out?

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Concerns of a possible Russian invasion into Ukraine continue to mount, with Britain moving this wee...

Supreme Courting The Voters with Dan Pfeiffer

Fri, 28 Jan 2022

President Biden reaffirmed his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court yesterday...

Don’t Breyer Because It’s Over, Smile Because It Happened

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

The 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer intends to retire at the end of this Supreme Court term in Ju...

All Eyes On Ukraine with Ben Rhodes

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

Russia conducted a series of military drills yesterday while Ukraine received a shipment of weapons ...

Could A Conservative Court End Affirmative Action?

Tue, 25 Jan 2022

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear cases on the right of universities to consid...

The Palin New York Times

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

New U.S. cases of COVID are down slightly from the peak brought on by the Omicron variant. Average d...

You Can't Spell Ivanka Without Subpoena

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

A number of inquiries into former President Trump’s interference in the 2020 election are advancin...

Biden Looks Back At It

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

Today is the first anniversary of President Biden taking office. Yesterday, he held his first formal...

The Kyiv To Diplomacy

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

Tensions between the U.S. and Russia are rising after last week’s summit in Geneva ended with no r...

The Anti-Capitalist Legacy Of MLK Jr.

Tue, 18 Jan 2022

Yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In addition to fighting racial inequality, working to pass...

Vaccine Mandate, We Hardly Knew Ye

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

The Supreme Court yesterday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to enforce a vaccine or tes...

An Awards Season Unlike Any Other with Rebecca Keegan

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

Hollywood is going through some massive changes. The Golden Globes, usually the start of awards show...

Voting Rights Now, Not Later with LaTosha Brown

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Atlanta, Georgia yesterday to make ...

The Prognosis For Elizabeth Holmes And Silicon Valley

Tue, 11 Jan 2022

Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud investors...

The Test Is In The Mail

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

President Biden announced last month that his administration purchased 500 million at-home Covid-19 ...

Biden Looks For Mr. Voting Rights Now

Fri, 7 Jan 2022

Voting rights have gone back to being the White House’s top priority, but Congress is struggling t...

365 Days Since Last Insurrection with Rep. Mondaire Jones

Thu, 6 Jan 2022

Today marks a year since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol where supporters of former President D...

New Year, Same Omicron with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Wed, 5 Jan 2022

The Omicron variant has absolutely exploded in the US in the last few weeks. On Monday alone, the U....

I'm Feeling 2022

Tue, 4 Jan 2022

2021 is done, and we are excited to tell you all about what you need to know throughout 2022. In our...

WAD We Covered In 2021

Fri, 17 Dec 2021

The year is coming to a close, so we look back at the stories we thought were the biggest and most m...

I'm Not Dreaming Of A COVID Christmas with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

As we jump head first into the holiday season, COVID-19 news has been overwhelming. Britain logged i...

The Human Cost Of Military Pollution In Hawai'i with Kai Kahele

Wed, 15 Dec 2021

Tens of thousands of military families in O’ahu have been living without clean water for weeks aft...

A Settlement For Victims Of Larry Nassar

Tue, 14 Dec 2021

We’ve reached another grim benchmark since the pandemic began almost two years ago. According to t...

Venti Vidi Vici

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

At least 100 people have died after tornadoes ripped through at least six states on Friday night. Se...

Last Call For Congress

Fri, 10 Dec 2021

Today is the last day that Congress is scheduled to be in session for 2021. Just yesterday, the Sena...

A New Surge In Labor Organizing with Marty Walsh

Thu, 9 Dec 2021

Today, votes will be counted in the effort to unionize three Starbucks stores in Buffalo, New York, ...

The Gerrymandering Went Down In Georgia with Bee Nguyen

Wed, 8 Dec 2021

Redistricting efforts are underway across the country, but it's become a contentious process. The De...

Lock Me Out Of The Ballgame

Tue, 7 Dec 2021

The US Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Texas over the state's recently updated...

It Goes Omicron And On

Mon, 6 Dec 2021

Omicron cases were found in at least 17 U.S. states and they aren’t all due to travel to southern ...

"Remain In Mexico" Returns

Fri, 3 Dec 2021

More cases of the omicron variant have been identified in the U.S., and the Biden administration ann...

Supply Chain Reaction with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh

Thu, 2 Dec 2021

The Supreme Court heard a case yesterday that could ultimately reverse the constitutional right to a...

A SCOTUS Case That Could Overturn Roe

Wed, 1 Dec 2021

Today, the Supreme Court hears what is likely the most consequential reproductive health case in dec...

A Variant: Age Of Omicron

Tue, 30 Nov 2021

Over the last 24 hours, world leaders and health officials had more to say about the Omicron variant...

Omicron The Road Again with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

Scientists in South Africa announced on Thursday that they detected a new variant of the coronavirus...

Giving Thanks For Antibodies with Dr. Ashish Jha

Wed, 24 Nov 2021

Thanksgiving is almost here in the U.S., where COVID cases are up by more than 20 percent compared t...

Tragedy At A Wisconsin Christmas Parade

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

Attorneys presented closing arguments in the trial of the three Georgia men charged with murdering A...

Reckoning With The Rittenhouse Verdict

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

After four days of deliberation, a Wisconsin jury found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts on...

Legislating Environmental Justice with EPA's Michael Regan

Fri, 19 Nov 2021

House Democrats are on the verge of passing President Biden's Build Back Better bill, and once they ...

Trans Rights, Representation, and Remembrance With Kate Sosin

Thu, 18 Nov 2021

This week is Trans Awareness Week, leading up to the Trans Day of Remembrance on Saturday. This year...

The Promised Cleveland with Mayor-Elect Justin Bibb

Wed, 17 Nov 2021

Mayor-elect of Cleveland, Justin Bibb, comes on the show to discuss his win and what he hopes to ach...

Minding The Map In Georgia

Tue, 16 Nov 2021

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees voted to ratify new film and TV contracts a...

Freed Britney with Ashley Fetters Maloy

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Britney Spears is finally free. Last Friday, a Los Angeles judge ended her 13 year conservatorship w...

The Read On Redistricting

Fri, 12 Nov 2021

The 2020 Census data and the redistricting that comes after will have big implications for who gets ...

Inflation Nation

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

A new report by the Labor Department shows that inflation continued to spike last month. Consumer pr...

COP26 Rock with Ben Rhodes

Wed, 10 Nov 2021

The UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, aka COP26, brought together leaders from all over the world to com...

With A Court This Right, What Could Go Wrong?

Tue, 9 Nov 2021

The U.S. ended a year and a half-long pandemic travel ban, reopening borders to vaccinated travelers...

Vaccines, Family Style with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Fri, 5 Nov 2021

The Biden administration set a January 4th deadline for companies with 100 or more employees to have...

Voters Reject Police Overhaul In Minneapolis

Thu, 4 Nov 2021

We discuss more election results and analyze where Democrats and progressives stand now. Some highli...

Local Elections That Impact Criminal Justice

Wed, 3 Nov 2021

Election day has come and gone with several important contests on the line. In New York, Eric Adams ...

The Stakes Of Election Day 2021

Tue, 2 Nov 2021

It’s election day, again! We are following major gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, m...

Hasta Barista Baby

Mon, 1 Nov 2021

President Biden and other leaders formally endorsed a new global corporate minimum tax at the G20 Su...

Let's Make A Democratic Spending Deal

Fri, 29 Oct 2021

After weeks of negotiations, President Biden announced his revamped Build Back Better plan, which in...

Understanding The Coup In Sudan with Nima Elbagir

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

Sudan is in the grips of a coup after the military seized control of the country, and in the past se...

Facing The Facebook Papers with Mike Isaac

Wed, 27 Oct 2021

Facebook is in the crosshairs after a drumbeat of stories over the last few weeks all stemming from ...

The Future Of Policing In Minneapolis

Tue, 26 Oct 2021

Minneapolis residents are voting on a ballot measure, Question 2. If it passes, the city’s police ...

A Tragic Shooting On The Set Of 'Rust'

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed in an incident last week involving a prop gun fired on th...

What A Day (trailer)

Sat, 23 Oct 2021

If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What ...

Your Booster Questions Answered with Dr. Abdul el-Sayed

Fri, 22 Oct 2021

The CDC recommended boosters for certain people who got the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. ...

How Chappelle Fueled A Netflix Walkout

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

People gathered in solidarity with trans Netflix employees and their allies who held a walkout, yest...

Striketober Fest

Wed, 20 Oct 2021

Thousands of John Deere workers are on strike after the company and the United Automobile Workers un...

SCOTUS Stands Up For Qualified Immunity

Tue, 19 Oct 2021

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of police officers in two cases dealing with qualified immunity. Bo...

Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial Begins

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

The leadership of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees announced a tentative agr...

What The Virginia Governor's Race Means For Democrats

Fri, 15 Oct 2021

The January 6th commission plans to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply wi...

The Ol' Ball And Supply Chain

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

President Biden addressed the ongoing supply chain problems that are jacking up prices for consumers...

A Judge Illegally Jailed Black Children In Tennessee

Wed, 13 Oct 2021

For more than a decade, officials in Rutherford County, Tennessee, were arresting kids en masse and ...

544 Days In An Iranian Prison with Jason Rezaian

Tue, 12 Oct 2021

In July of 2014, Iranian-American journalist Jason Rezaian and his wife were accused of being spies ...

Votes Against Gun Violence with Shannon Watts

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

Guns were involved in three out of every four homicides in 2020, and 2021 is shaping up to be deadly...

Women Soccer Players Fight Against Abuse

Fri, 8 Oct 2021

Players across the National Women’s Soccer League have recently gone public with stories of verbal...

Small Step For Big Student Loans

Thu, 7 Oct 2021

The Biden administration announced it will overhaul the student loan forgiveness program for public ...

Ernest Johnson And The State Of The Death Penalty

Wed, 6 Oct 2021

Ernest Johnson was executed in Missouri, yesterday. Johnson had been on death row for over 25 years ...

Facebook's Status: It's Complicated

Tue, 5 Oct 2021

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were offline for six hours yesterday in what’s been called the mo...

Mandela Barnes Wants To Be Wisconsin's Next Senator

Mon, 4 Oct 2021

Wisconsin's 34-year-old Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is one of the many Democrats running to b...

Did IATSE That Coming

Fri, 1 Oct 2021

Congress approved a short-term spending bill to keep the government open until early December, but D...

Britney Spears Wins In Court

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Britney Spears' father has been suspended as conservator of her estate. Her lawyer requested that a ...

Dancing On The Debt Ceiling

Wed, 29 Sep 2021

After Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have funded the government and raised the debt ce...

R. Kelly Convicted

Tue, 28 Sep 2021

After decades of allegations and investigations, a jury convicted R. Kelly, marking the end of a si...

The Long And Short Of Long COVID with Dr. Ashish Jha

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

As many as one in five people who became ill with COVID-19 have reportedly developed long-term sympt...

What Have You Got To Boost? with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Fri, 24 Sep 2021

A CDC advisory board unanimously said that people 65 and older should be allowed to receive a booste...

Missing Women In America

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

In addition to Gabrielle Petito’s tragic murder, we discuss the horrific rates of people of color ...

A Historic Strike Ends At Nabisco

Wed, 22 Sep 2021

In defiance of Texas’ new abortion law, one doctor in the state claimed he performed an abortion. ...

Immigration Reform Can't Wait with Denea Joseph

Tue, 21 Sep 2021

The Senate’s parliamentarian said that Democrats could not use the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bi...

Deteriorating Conditions At Rikers Island

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

An FDA panel, last week, unanimously approved a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine fo...

Police Reform And Accountability In Minneapolis

Fri, 17 Sep 2021

Former Minneapolis police officer and convicted murderer Derek Chauvin pleaded not guilty to not one...

This Is Your Brain On Instagram

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

Voters in California appeared to send the message to Governor Gavin Newsom that his coronavirus poli...

India Walton On The Race To Lead Buffalo

Wed, 15 Sep 2021

India Walton, the Democratic nominee for mayor of Buffalo, New York, is poised to win this November....

Last Call For California's Recall

Tue, 14 Sep 2021

The California recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom wraps up today. Newsom campaigned with Presi...

America's Forever Wars With Spencer Ackerman

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

This past weekend marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and beyond the typical yearly commemoration, ...

Anti-Muslim Bias After 9/11 with Shahana Hanif

Fri, 10 Sep 2021

Tomorrow marks 20 years since 9/11. The terrorist attack caused a ripple effect that has influenced ...

Bring It On Holmes

Thu, 9 Sep 2021

Yesterday marked the beginning of the federal criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the...

The Lone Star State Of Emergency

Wed, 8 Sep 2021

A law that effectively banned abortions in Texas after the sixth week of pregnancy with no exception...

Fight Or Flight Attendant with Sara Nelson

Wed, 1 Sep 2021

The FAA had to investigate more than 600 incidents involving unruly passengers in the first half of ...

America's Last Days In Afghanistan with Rep Barbara Lee

Tue, 31 Aug 2021

After 20 years, the U.S. has pulled out the last of its troops from Afghanistan. We spoke with Democ...

Labor And The Pandemic with Mary Kay Henry

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

A U.S. military drone blew up a vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday that was filled with explos...

Welcome To The Recall California

Thu, 26 Aug 2021

California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a recall election, which could result in getting replaced...

The Timeline For Evacuating Afghanistan

Wed, 25 Aug 2021

The first U.S. troops started leaving Afghanistan, yesterday, as President Biden decided not to exte...

Eyes On The Pfizer

Tue, 24 Aug 2021

The FDA granted full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, making it the first vaccine in the co...

Uncovering The Foes Of The Indian Child Welfare Act with Rebecca Nagle

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

In the new season of “This Land,” journalist Rebecca Nagle investigates who is attempting to tak...

You're Just Going To Have To Antitrust Us

Fri, 20 Aug 2021

On the same day Facebook announced the launch of “Horizon Workrooms,” a virtual reality app for ...

The Trial of R. Kelly

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced that a vaccine booster plan can begin September 20, but...

Hit Me with Your Third Shot

Wed, 18 Aug 2021

The Biden Administration is expected to announce as soon as today that boosters should be in order f...

What Haiti Needs

Tue, 17 Aug 2021

After Taliban fighters took control over Afghanistan this weekend, UN Secretary General António Gut...

The Taliban Takes Kabul

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

The Taliban seized Afghanistan with a takeover of its capital Kabul this past weekend, leading the c...

What's The Census In That?

Fri, 13 Aug 2021

The Taliban has taken over twelve provincial cities in Afghanistan, and U.S. intelligence officials ...

Two Bills With One Vote with Representative Pramila Jayapal

Thu, 12 Aug 2021

Senators Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema say they might not support a budget bill with a $3.5 trillio...

New York State Of Resign

Wed, 11 Aug 2021

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation yesterday, one week after New York Attorney...

The Dog Days Of Pandemic Summer with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Tue, 10 Aug 2021

The U.S. is currently seeing over 100,000 new COVID cases each day on average. It’s the highest nu...

The Long View Of The Midterms

Mon, 9 Aug 2021

Next year's midterm elections will dictate the future of voter rights, reproductive rights, climate ...

Biden Goes Electric

Fri, 6 Aug 2021

President Biden announced his goal to make new vehicles greener in his administration’s first majo...

WHO's Calling The Shots

Thu, 5 Aug 2021

The World Health Organization called for a moratorium on booster shots until the end of September, r...

Life Cuomos At You Fast

Wed, 4 Aug 2021

A five month investigation into the conduct of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo found evidence of sexu...

An Impending Eviction Crisis

Tue, 3 Aug 2021

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said that students must be in classrooms this year and that sc...

Keeping The DREAM Alive

Fri, 30 Jul 2021

New GDP numbers released by the Commerce Department show that the size of the economy has risen abov...

On The Ground At Tokyo 2020

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

This year's Olympics is like no other, taking place in the midst of a pandemic, and in a city under ...

Recollections Of An Insurrection

Wed, 28 Jul 2021

The CDC said yesterday that fully vaccinated people should wear masks in indoor public settings in c...

50 First Mandates

Tue, 27 Jul 2021

Federal public health officials are considering updating mask mandates even for vaccinated Americans...

Ask Delta Questions, Get Delta Answers with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein

Fri, 23 Jul 2021

The U.S. is at another pivotal point in the pandemic, with loosening restrictions and the rapidly sp...

The Labor Movement Goes PRO

Thu, 22 Jul 2021

Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike yesterday across nearly a dozen cities in the U.S. ...

Burn After Heating

Wed, 21 Jul 2021

Wildfires in the western US and parts of Canada, driven by extreme drought conditions and heat waves...

How It's Joe-ing Six Months In

Tue, 20 Jul 2021

Today marks six months since President Biden entered the White House. We talked with Crooked Media’...

Return Of The Mask

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

Los Angeles County reimposed mask mandates this weekend for everyone indoors in a public space becau...

Educators On Critical Race Theory

Fri, 16 Jul 2021

At its heart, critical race theory is the idea of explaining how systemic racism has persisted in ou...

Back To School with Ed Sec Miguel Cardona

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is traveling across the country this week to discuss how sch...

The Strike At Warrior Met Coal

Wed, 14 Jul 2021

Miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, have been striking for nearly four months in prote...

Walkout, Texas Ranger

Tue, 13 Jul 2021

President Biden’s previous plan to combat crime by tightening the reins on gun sales and empowerin...

Biden Vs. Big Business

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

President Biden signed an executive order last week aimed at boosting competition between businesses...

Amount Past Purdue

Fri, 9 Jul 2021

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a deal where 15 states agreed to drop their opposition to the ...

The Texas Bad Law Massacre

Thu, 8 Jul 2021

Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by a team of mercenaries amid claims...

Vaccine Hesitation, Under God with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Wed, 7 Jul 2021

Reflecting upon President Biden’s missed July 4th vaccination goals, we talked to epidemiologist a...

Voting Rights And SCOTUS Wrongs

Fri, 2 Jul 2021

The Supreme Court affirmed two provisions of an Arizona law that restricted voting rights, yesterday...

Cosby For Concern

Thu, 1 Jul 2021

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court set Bill Cosby free on a technicality after he served part of his sen...

Heatwave Back At It

Wed, 30 Jun 2021

Intense heat waves in the Pacific Northwest are causing heavy power demands and rolling blackouts. U...

Vaccine Mismatch Made In Heaven

Tue, 29 Jun 2021

The Delta variant of coronavirus has been detected in 92 countries, leading to lockdowns and the rei...

A Tragic Building Collapse In Miami

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

A 12-story residential building collapsed in Miami last week, resulting in the deaths of at least 9 ...

No Cops At Pride

Fri, 25 Jun 2021

President Biden announced a new $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package that will be primari...

SCOTUS Checks In

Thu, 24 Jun 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that President Biden had the authority to remove the head of the Federal Hou...

For The People Inaction

Wed, 23 Jun 2021

The vote to open a debate about the For The People Act, which would make it easier to vote, strength...

Ranked Choice State Of Mind

Tue, 22 Jun 2021

New York City holds its mayoral primary, today, one of the highest profile elections since the presi...

The Legacy of Juneteenth

Fri, 18 Jun 2021

Juneteenth is coming up this Saturday, and Congress just passed legislation to make it a federal hol...

Don't Manchin It

Thu, 17 Jun 2021

President Biden had his first one-on-one meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Geneva, ye...

ERCOT Off Guard In Texas

Wed, 16 Jun 2021

The main electric grid operator in Texas, ERCOT, is dropping the ball on providing services again, t...

Vlad To Meet You, Mr. Biden

Tue, 15 Jun 2021

President Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in Geneva for the final stop as...

Like A G7

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

The G7 summit ended on Sunday, with President Joe Biden and several other world leaders pledging to ...

Drought Of Control

Fri, 11 Jun 2021

On Saturday, four Republican-led states will pull out of the federal government’s pandemic-related...

The Shots Sent Around The World

Thu, 10 Jun 2021

President Biden is expected to announce a deal today where the U.S. will buy 500 million doses of th...

The Legend Of Delta Variant

Wed, 9 Jun 2021

A more infectious coronavirus variant called the Delta variant is becoming the dominant strain in th...

The End Of COVID Benefits

Tue, 8 Jun 2021

Several social programs launched during the pandemic are set to expire soon, including an eviction m...

The Long Good Bibi

Mon, 7 Jun 2021

The twelve year tenure of right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come to an end as...

Stonk If You Love AMC

Fri, 4 Jun 2021

President Biden had hoped to have 70 percent of adults in the U.S. vaccinated with at least one shot...

The Crisis In Ethiopia With Nima Elbagir

Thu, 3 Jun 2021

Yesterday, the U.S., Canada, and a number of European countries called for a ceasefire in Ethiopia, ...

Variants Are All Greek Letters To Me

Wed, 2 Jun 2021

As most of the U.S. prepares to reopen by the end of this month, a World Health Organization officia...

Revisiting Our Favorite Conversations on Coronavirus

Tue, 1 Jun 2021

The past year and more were filled with extreme ups and extreme downs, and as we reflect on that tim...

Are You Infrastructure Or Out?

Fri, 28 May 2021

Congressional Republicans have countered President Biden’s nearly $2 trillion infrastructure propo...

History's Not Set In Stone Mountain Park

Thu, 27 May 2021

Amazon plans to buy movie studio MGM for $8.45 billion, which would give the tech company a huge lib...

Florida's Right To Post Shall Not Be Infringed

Wed, 26 May 2021

Moderna said that its vaccine trial for 12-17 year olds resulted in zero cases of symptomatic COVID....

Activism After George Floyd's Murder

Tue, 25 May 2021

Today is the 1-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. His friends, family, and the communit...

The Ceasefire In Israel And Palestine

Mon, 24 May 2021

The state of the pandemic in the US is looking brighter with infection rates dropping to where they ...

The NBA Playoffs In Context

Fri, 21 May 2021

The NBA playoffs begin tomorrow after a season that's played out during a global pandemic and a mass...

Reparations For Tulsa

Thu, 20 May 2021

Progressive Representatives in the House led an effort to block a $735 million arms sale to Israel i...

The Crisis On The Ground In Gaza

Wed, 19 May 2021

Airstrikes have exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with numerous vital resources damaged o...

SCOTUS v. Roe v. Wade

Tue, 18 May 2021

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade, which deals with a...

What To Know About The New CDC Guidance with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Mon, 17 May 2021

Since the Centers for Disease Control announced their new relaxed guidance for mask-wearing for vacc...

All That Glitters Is Not Golden Globes

Fri, 14 May 2021

The Center for Disease Control announced revised mask guidelines yesterday, stating that people who ...

Broken Link In The Cheney

Thu, 13 May 2021

Congresswoman Liz Cheney was ousted from the House GOP leadership, yesterday, over a failure to pret...

Reporting On The Crisis In India with Niha Masih

Wed, 12 May 2021

The coronavirus crisis in India continues to escalate, with the World Health Organization warning of...

Israel's Attacks On Gaza

Tue, 11 May 2021

Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip, last night, leading to the deaths of at least 20 p...

Waive Of Vaccination with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Mon, 10 May 2021

With more and more Americans becoming fully vaccinated against COVID-19, officials have signaled a w...

The Union Makes U.S. Strong with Sara Nelson

Thu, 6 May 2021

Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board is set to hold a hearing into the failed unionization v...

Who's Afraid Of Critical Race Theory

Wed, 5 May 2021

After delivering on his promise of 200 million shots in 100 days, President Biden has set a new vacc...

Vaccine But Not Herd Immunity

Tue, 4 May 2021

Four mothers who had been separated from their children at the border by the Trump administration wi...

Pharm-Accountability In The Opioid Crisis

Mon, 3 May 2021

The COVID crisis in India is getting worse by most metrics, with Saturday marking another daily reco...

The Fall Of Menthol

Fri, 30 Apr 2021

The pandemic continues to spiral out of control in India, with the country recently topping 200,000 ...

100 Days Of Biden

Thu, 29 Apr 2021

President Biden gave his first address to Congress last night, themed largely around moving America ...

CDC What Happens Next

Wed, 28 Apr 2021

The CDC issued new guidance yesterday that fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks outdoo...

Make It Make Census

Tue, 27 Apr 2021

The results of the 2020 Census were released yesterday, and they showed that over the past decade, t...

J&J It Again, Sam

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

The CDC and the FDA have lifted their recommended pause on the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine, an...

Emission Critical

Fri, 23 Apr 2021

President Biden and 40 heads of state met for the first day of a virtual climate summit, yesterday, ...

What's Next For American Policing

Thu, 22 Apr 2021

Derek Chauvin has been found guilty, but it's painfully obvious that the issue of police brutality i...

Chauvin Guilty On All Charges

Wed, 21 Apr 2021

Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, yesterda...

Amazon The Defensive

Tue, 20 Apr 2021

President Biden held bipartisan meetings yesterday to find some middle ground for his massive infras...

Gun Violence Continued

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

It was another tragic weekend in the midst of our national epidemic of gun violence, with mass shoot...

One Vax Fits Most

Fri, 16 Apr 2021

Only a handful of blood-clotting cases have been reported among recipients of the Johnson and Johnso...

Charges For Daunte Wright's Killer

Thu, 15 Apr 2021

A CDC committee voted yesterday to keep the pause going on the distribution of the Johnson & Johnson...

Johnson & Pausin'

Wed, 14 Apr 2021

Federal health officials recommended a pause on giving out the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, yesterday,...

Justice For Daunte Wright

Tue, 13 Apr 2021

A police officer shot and killed 20-year-old unarmed Black man Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb...

The Current State Of COVID with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

Most adults in America can soon sign up for a vaccine, but we're faced with a new set of COVID-relat...

Two Months Of Protest In Myanmar

Fri, 9 Apr 2021

It's been over two months since the military first seized control of Myanmar. The coup was met with ...

Atlanta Is For Voters

Thu, 8 Apr 2021

The CDC is continuing to warn about new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus in the US, and ...

Senate Parliamentarian Funkadelic

Wed, 7 Apr 2021

Senate Democrats got the green light to pass more bills with a simple majority vote. On Monday, the ...

Read My Lips: Corporate Taxes

Tue, 6 Apr 2021

The Biden administration is trying to get corporations to pay their fair share of taxes in order to ...

Vaccine Passport To Adventure

Mon, 5 Apr 2021

The MLB is officially moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia after Republicans in the state passed ...

America, Online

Fri, 2 Apr 2021

As Biden works to sell his infrastructure plan, we take a look at the money he’s proposing for hig...

Corporate Slacktivism In Georgia

Thu, 1 Apr 2021

Journalists got a tour this week of a detention facility in Texas housing migrants — the first tim...

OK Ladies, Now Let's Get Infrastructure

Wed, 31 Mar 2021

President Biden is in Pittsburgh, today, to unveil a new infrastructure plan that would invest trill...

The State Of Voter Suppression

Tue, 30 Mar 2021

Florida is following Georgia’s lead by moving forward on a bill that makes it harder to vote. It’...

OK Folks, Plateau's Over

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is set to begin today with opening stat...

Gender Disparities in College Sports (Takeline preview!)

Sun, 28 Mar 2021

In the new Crooked podcast Takeline, hosts Jason Concepcion and Renee Montgomery discuss the recent ...

Biden Said Shots, Make It A Double

Fri, 26 Mar 2021

Biden held the first press conference of his presidency, yesterday, discussing the state of the nati...

Standing Up For Sex Workers

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

In light of the Georgia shooter's claim that his attack was intended to "eliminate" "temptations," a...

Colorado Mourns Again

Wed, 24 Mar 2021

Boulder police have identified a suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting in Colorado, which killed 10 ...

Divine Secrets Of The DC Statehood

Tue, 23 Mar 2021

The AstraZeneca vaccine was shown to completely prevent serious cases of COVID in a US clinical tria...

The Sunshine State Of Emergency

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

Thousands gathered in Georgia and other cities across the country for #StopAsianHate protests over t...

Ad AstraZeneca

Fri, 19 Mar 2021

European countries including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain will resume using the AstraZeneca vac...

Biden At The Border

Thu, 18 Mar 2021

A White gunman attacked three spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday killing eight people including six...

Shots For Tots

Wed, 17 Mar 2021

Nearly 10,000 children seeking asylum have arrived to the United States southern border since Februa...

Vax on Pause

Tue, 16 Mar 2021

Italy, Germany, France and several other countries in Europe are halting use of Astrazeneca’s coro...

Cuom Alone 2: Lost In New York

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

Covid cases continue to decline, though at a much slower rate than in January. That leveling off, pl...

Respect Trans Existence Or Expect Resistance

Fri, 12 Mar 2021

President Biden said last night that he wants states to make all US adults eligible for the COVID-19...

Giving Vax And Taking Names

Thu, 11 Mar 2021

Today marks one year since the World Health Organization officially called the coronavirus outbreak ...

Fight For Your Right To Organize

Wed, 10 Mar 2021

The House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act on Tuesday, a bill that’s been called th...

Our House Is A Very Very Very Vaxxed House

Tue, 9 Mar 2021

The CDC said fully vaccinated Americans can safely gather indoors together, and laid out other guide...

Coming To The American Rescue

Mon, 8 Mar 2021

Senate Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion economic relief bill on Saturday, without any support from...

UBI Feel It Coming

Fri, 5 Mar 2021

Republican governors in West Virginia and Alabama have continued to advise wearing masks, bucking th...

The Trial Of Derek Chauvin

Thu, 4 Mar 2021

Jury selection begins next week for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, wh...

It's Gonna Be May

Wed, 3 Mar 2021

Biden is now saying that we'll have enough vaccine doses for every American by the end of May, inste...

Read My Lips: More Billionaire Taxes

Tue, 2 Mar 2021

The coronavirus relief bill moves to the Senate this week. A group of progressive House Democrats ar...

GO—And I Cannot Suppress This Enough—P

Mon, 1 Mar 2021

The US vaccination campaign is accelerating, with the country hitting over 2 million doses a day las...

Minimum Wage, Maximum Rage

Fri, 26 Feb 2021

The House is expected to pass its COVID relief bill as soon as today, but there's still a question o...

Vaccinate K-8

Thu, 25 Feb 2021

The FDA put out analyses yesterday showing that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine is highly ef...

Capitol Insecurity

Wed, 24 Feb 2021

Former Capitol security officials appeared before the Senate yesterday, citing communications failur...

The Return Of The Tax Returns

Tue, 23 Feb 2021

The Supreme Court threw out the final Trump lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election, an...

Shock Me Like An Electric Bill

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

The US is approaching 500,000 deaths from Covid-19. But there is good news, too: New studies suggest...

Making Black History

Fri, 19 Feb 2021

Black Americans still frequently have to break barriers to become elected, appointed, or hired to do...

Amazon The Wrong Side Of The Law

Thu, 18 Feb 2021

Over two million Texans are still without power, and there’s a new storm on the way that’s expec...

Keep Austin Warm

Wed, 17 Feb 2021

President Biden was in Wisconsin yesterday on his first official trip since taking office making the...

It's The End Of Impeachment As We Know It

Tue, 16 Feb 2021

Donald Trump’s second annual impeachment trial is over, after a vote of 57 to 43 led to his acquit...

V Is For Vaccine with Dr. Anthony Fauci

Fri, 12 Feb 2021

President Biden announced yesterday that the US will have enough doses to vaccinate all Americans by...

Second Mask's The Charm

Thu, 11 Feb 2021

The House Impeachment managers began to make their case against Trump yesterday, showing graphic and...

If At First You Don't Succeed, Trial, Trial Again

Wed, 10 Feb 2021

The second impeachment trial began yesterday, with Senators voting 56 to 44 to uphold the trial as c...

There Goes My Hero Pay

Tue, 9 Feb 2021

Trump’s Senate impeachment trial begins today. Trump’s team continues to argue that the trial it...

No Child Tax Credit Left Behind

Mon, 8 Feb 2021

Coronavirus cases in the US are in decline from last month, and the daily speed of vaccinations has ...

MTG Get Off The Air

Fri, 5 Feb 2021

The House voted to strip Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments f...

Which Side Are You Amazon?

Thu, 4 Feb 2021

Amazon faces its first unionization vote in the country in seven years next week in Bessemer, Alabam...

Get In Loser, We're Doing Budget Reconciliation

Wed, 3 Feb 2021

Trump’s second impeachment trial starts next week in the Senate, and yesterday we got a preview of...

The Needle And The Doses Done

Tue, 2 Feb 2021

The daily pace of vaccinations is picking up, with some states working faster than others. We talk a...

Less Talkie, More Stimmy

Mon, 1 Feb 2021

A group of Republican Senators are sending Biden a counter-proposal on Covid relief. They want to sl...

Subreddit And Forget It

Fri, 29 Jan 2021

The COVID strain first discovered in South Africa was found in the United States for the first time ...

The Gig Short

Thu, 28 Jan 2021

At the Biden team's first public health briefing, officials noted that the number of COVID cases and...

All In A Hundred Days Work

Wed, 27 Jan 2021

Impeachment is moving forward in the Senate despite a Republican effort to dismiss it yesterday, but...

Life With The Fast Strains

Tue, 26 Jan 2021

Pfizer and Moderna say their vaccines may be less effective against a new coronavirus variant first ...

Anarchy In The GOP

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

The House is expected to send the article of impeachment to the Senate today, with the trial set to ...

Not Throwing Away My Shot

Fri, 22 Jan 2021

Biden released a 200-page national plan yesterday to centralize the COVID response effort, along wit...

Malarkey: Eliminated

Thu, 21 Jan 2021

Yesterday was inauguration day, which saw President Biden give his first speech as president on them...

Hello, Goodbiden

Wed, 20 Jan 2021

Trump leaves office today after four years of hellish incompetence. We reflect on the challenges Pre...

Executive Order Up

Tue, 19 Jan 2021

Over the weekend, Biden’s team announced the president-elect’s agenda for the first ten days of ...

Meet Joe Bill

Fri, 15 Jan 2021

Biden unveiled his proposal for a $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package yesterday, which includes $1,40...

Impeachment's Back, Alright!

Thu, 14 Jan 2021

The House voted to impeach Donald Trump for the second time yesterday, making him the first presiden...

Sedition: Possible

Wed, 13 Jan 2021

The House is planning to vote on impeachment today. Democrats and some number of Republicans are exp...

It's The Companies You Keep

Tue, 12 Jan 2021

The business community is responding to the siege on the Capitol by suspending contributions to lawm...

Raid To Recovery with Rep. Mondaire Jones

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will try to pass a resolution to get Vice President P...

Pleading The 25th

Fri, 8 Jan 2021

After Trump incited an attack on the nation’s Capitol, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want Pence t...

Coup And A Half Man

Thu, 7 Jan 2021

Violent mobs broke into the nation’s Capitol yesterday in a failed coup attempt, which was incited...

Glory Be To Georgia

Wed, 6 Jan 2021

Votes are coming in from the Georgia runoff elections, with the results generally looking positive f...

Mask On, Run Off with Senator Ed Markey

Tue, 5 Jan 2021

Today's Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of Congress, the future of economic relief,...

Can You Hear The Donald Ring?

Mon, 4 Jan 2021

In a leaked phone call from this weekend, Trump used every line he could to pressure Georgia Secreta...

Introducing 'Gaining Ground: The New Georgia'

Tue, 22 Dec 2020

The future of our democracy hinges on the outcome of two Senate races in Georgia, a state that shock...

WAD A Year

Fri, 18 Dec 2020

Congressional leaders are putting together the final pieces of an emerging deal on COVID relief, but...

NCAA It Forward

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

Congressional leaders think they could pass a roughly $900 billion stimulus bill by the end of the w...

Staffing Season

Wed, 16 Dec 2020

Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was announced as Biden’s nominee for transportation secreta...

Stimu-Less And Less

Tue, 15 Dec 2020

The first coronavirus vaccines were administered in the US yesterday, and public education efforts a...

Better 538 Than Never

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized by the FDA on Friday evening, and the first shipments wen...

COVID By The Numbers

Fri, 11 Dec 2020

The FDA’s advisory panel voted to approve emergency authorization of the Pfizer-BionNTech coronavi...

Zuck The Police

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

Facebook is facing two major antitrust lawsuits, one from the Federal Trade Commission and one from ...

No One's Quick As Gascón

Wed, 9 Dec 2020

As vaccinations kick off in the UK, the approval process is moving forward here in the US as well. T...

Crime And Capital Punishment

Tue, 8 Dec 2020

A bipartisan relief bill that had some momentum last week hit a snag after two senators said they wo...

California, Here We Close

Mon, 7 Dec 2020

Biden has reportedly selected California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led the defense of the...

Runoff The Jewels

Fri, 4 Dec 2020

There’s about a month left to go until the two Senate runoffs in Georgia, with Republican Senators...

God Save The Vaccine

Thu, 3 Dec 2020

The UK became the first country to authorize Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine yesterday, with vaccinatio...

Congress This Mess

Wed, 2 Dec 2020

Attorney General Bill Barr said what is obvious to everyone, that the Justice Department hasn’t fo...

Bidenomics 101

Tue, 1 Dec 2020

Biden officially announced several top members of his economic team, including his picks to lead the...

Pardon Me, Mr. President

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

New York City is opening up elementary schools next week after city officials faced heavy criticism ...

Yes We Michigan with Rep. Rashida Tlaib

Fri, 20 Nov 2020

Michigan and Wayne County have repeatedly been targeted in Trump’s attempts to overturn the electi...

Home Is Where The School Is

Thu, 19 Nov 2020

Yesterday brought more bad news about the current state of the pandemic, even as we got more good ne...

Airborne In The USA With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Wed, 18 Nov 2020

The US is in an extremely dangerous period of the pandemic, with cases and hospitalizations at recor...

Midnight Train To The Senate

Tue, 17 Nov 2020

Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced yesterday that its vaccine is 94.5% effective, according to...

System Of A Lockdown

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

The federal government still hasn’t affirmed Biden's victory, blocking him from the White House ac...

Trial and Error

Fri, 13 Nov 2020

Joe Biden’s lead has only grown since major networks projected him to win the presidential electio...

Lost In Transition

Thu, 12 Nov 2020

The US is still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of confirmed cases rising by ...

Exhibit None

Wed, 11 Nov 2020

Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo made a bad “joke” yesterday that led many to believe Trump will c...

I've Vaccine Enough

Tue, 10 Nov 2020

Pfizer says an initial analysis of their vaccine found it was more than 90 percent effective in prev...

Let's Joe Crazy

Mon, 9 Nov 2020

The presidential race was called this weekend for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, leading to spontaneou...

Biden Rising

Fri, 6 Nov 2020

A significant number of ballots were counted yesterday in states where races have been too close to...

Another Brick In The Blue Wall

Thu, 5 Nov 2020

Joe Biden now has the most votes of any presidential candidate in history, and he’s won two more k...

No Winner, No Cry

Wed, 4 Nov 2020

Yesterday was Election Day, and it ended as we expected it to: without an official call on the presi...

No Sleep Til Votes In

Tue, 3 Nov 2020

After four long hard years, we’ve made it to election day… now we just need to make it through t...

First Vote's The Charm

Mon, 2 Nov 2020

Over 93 million people have voted as of Sunday night. More than 8 million of those voters are doing ...

In This COVID Economy?

Fri, 30 Oct 2020

Another 5 million people cast ballots yesterday, bringing the vote total to over 80 million so far. ...

Ballot Cleanser

Thu, 29 Oct 2020

COVID-19 numbers are up in the US, with more than 500,000 new cases over the past week. Trouble spot...

I've Got Polls But I'm Not A Pollster

Wed, 28 Oct 2020

With less than a week until November 3rd, almost 70 million people have already voted in this electi...

I Just Can't Barrett

Tue, 27 Oct 2020

Amy Coney Barrett was officially confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, cementing a 6-3 conservative ...

Pence Like Nobody's Watching

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

At least 5 aides of Mike Pence including his Chief of Staff have tested positive for Covid-19, but P...

A More Muted Presidential Debate

Fri, 23 Oct 2020

Last night Biden and Trump faced off in the second and final presidential debate. It was less interr...

Pharma Police

Thu, 22 Oct 2020

The DOJ announced an $8.3 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma yesterday for illegally marketing th...

OK Google, What's A Monopoly

Wed, 21 Oct 2020

The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit against Google saying that the company is illegally try...

Stuck In The Meddle With GRU

Tue, 20 Oct 2020

In the final two weeks before November 3rd, Trump has been criticizing his own public health experts...

Con Census

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

In the US, we’re now seeing uncontrolled spread of coronavirus as parts of the country get colder ...

Everything Is Feinstein

Fri, 16 Oct 2020

A new study shows eight million people have fallen into poverty since May, when the CARES Act money ...

Rotten To The Court

Thu, 15 Oct 2020

Amy Coney Barrett appeared for her last day of Senate questioning yesterday and gave more evasive no...

Take On Amy

Wed, 14 Oct 2020

Yesterday was day two of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, when members of the Senate Jud...

If U Seek Amy Coney Barrett

Tue, 13 Oct 2020

Senate hearings began yesterday to consider Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Co...

Vaccine Nation With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

Senate confirmation hearings begin today for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's Supreme Court nominee....

The Date Debaters

Fri, 9 Oct 2020

Thirteen men were charged yesterday in connection to an alleged violent plot to kidnap Michigan Gove...

Veeping With The Enemy

Thu, 8 Oct 2020

Last night was the first and only vice presidential debate, with Senator Kamala Harris and VP Mike P...

Keep Calm And Harrison

Wed, 7 Oct 2020

Trump said yesterday he won't negotiate with Democrats on another Covid relief before the election. ...

The West Wheeze

Tue, 6 Oct 2020

Trump is now back in the White House after making a Trumpian and very public return, but doctors say...

All The President's Meds

Mon, 5 Oct 2020

Amidst rosy reports about Trump's condition, we also learned that he received multiple drug treatmen...

The President Has Covid-19

Fri, 2 Oct 2020

In a tweet overnight, President Trump said that he and the first lady had tested positive for the co...

Take It Espy

Thu, 1 Oct 2020

Former Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy is running for Senate in Mississippi, hopi...

Presidential Interruption

Wed, 30 Sep 2020

The first presidential debate took place in Cleveland last night. It was an extremely bumpy ride, wi...

Performance Enhancing Debates

Tue, 29 Sep 2020

Tonight is the first of three debates between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump. The ...

The Art Of The Steal

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

The New York Times published a bombshell report on two decades of Trump’s taxes, showing he paid o...

Antitrust Me

Fri, 25 Sep 2020

While Trump is casually threatening to be an all out dictator, the economic crisis he continues not ...

Still No Justice For Breonna Taylor

Thu, 24 Sep 2020

Yesterday, the grand jury in Jefferson County, Kentucky announced that only one of the officers who ...

Naked Ballots & Afraid

Wed, 23 Sep 2020

America has passed the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths in the COVID-19 crisis, which was made far w...

Senate Racing Arizona

Tue, 22 Sep 2020

Arizona Senator Martha McSally said she will support a Senate vote when Trump nominates a Supreme Co...

Ruth And Justice

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

Supreme Court Justice and gender equality pioneer Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87 o...

As Easy As Phase 1, 2, 3

Fri, 18 Sep 2020

Two pharma companies released information about their vaccine trials, including details on their tim...

The Florida Key Demographic

Thu, 17 Sep 2020

Concerns about whether the Biden campaign is doing enough to speak to Latinx voters have grown in re...

When Police Pay

Wed, 16 Sep 2020

The city of Louisville, Kentucky has come to a $12 million settlement deal with the family of Breonn...

Let's TikTok Business

Tue, 15 Sep 2020

Extreme weather continues in the US, with over 4.5 million acres burned across the West Coast and a ...

Fire, Wind & Fire

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

Wildfires raged on over the weekend in the West, with millions of acres burned, thousands displaced,...

Surveilling The Police

Fri, 11 Sep 2020

Viral videos of police brutality against Black people have generated outrage, protest, and sustained...

Coming Out Of The Woodward

Thu, 10 Sep 2020

Recorded interviews of Donald Trump by Bob Woodward show he understood the threat of coronavirus in ...

One Simple Trick To Slim Down Your Relief Bill

Wed, 9 Sep 2020

The Rochester, NY police chief and other high ranking officers all resigned or took demotions yester...

Here Comes The Sunrise Movement

Tue, 8 Sep 2020

College students have returned to campuses, and so has coronavirus. Northeastern University suspende...

Vaxxers Without Borders

Thu, 3 Sep 2020

Joe Biden will visit Kenosha, Wisconsin later today, where he’ll meet with the family of Jacob Bla...

Mr. Eviction Freeze

Wed, 2 Sep 2020

The CDC and the Health Department are moving to ban evictions through December for people who can’...

Class Of Covid-19

Tue, 1 Sep 2020

Joe Biden spoke in Pennsylvania yesterday, where he condemned violence of any kind at recent protest...

Critical Mass

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

One man is now dead after a weekend of violence in Portland, Oregon, in which pro-Trump demonstrator...

The South Yawn

Fri, 28 Aug 2020

Trump closed out the RNC last night, with a meandering 70-minute long speech that saw him paint a ro...

Game Off

Thu, 27 Aug 2020

Police arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse yesterday for killing two protestors and injuring a thi...

Bleakfast At Tiffany's

Wed, 26 Aug 2020

Last night’s Republican National Convention brought more speeches from Trump’s employees and fam...

Guilfoyle Salesman

Tue, 25 Aug 2020

Protestors gathered for a second night in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the police shooting of 29-yea...

Do You Believe In Plasmagic

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

The Republican National Convention begins tonight, predominantly featuring speakers who are Trump’...

The Dude Abidens

Fri, 21 Aug 2020

Last night was the final night of the DNC, featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, former 2020 presidential c...

Return Of Barack

Thu, 20 Aug 2020

Last night was the third night of the Democratic National Convention, featuring marquee speeches fro...

License To Jill

Wed, 19 Aug 2020

Last night was the second night of the DNC, featuring beautiful shots of delegates across our gorgeo...

First Lady's Night

Tue, 18 Aug 2020

This year’s socially-distanced DNC began last night, with speeches from former First Lady Michelle...

DeJoy Division

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

The DNC was set to begin today in Wisconsin, but instead, it’s beginning in Zooms across America. ...

No Post On Trump Days

Fri, 14 Aug 2020

This was the first week since March that the number of new unemployment claims in the US fell below...

Teacher Buffering

Thu, 13 Aug 2020

The last time we spoke with Monise Seward, a 6th grade special education teacher in Georgia, it was ...

Kamala As You Are

Wed, 12 Aug 2020

Senator Kamala Harris was announced as Biden’s VP pick yesterday, which will make her the first bl...

Justice Democrats League

Tue, 11 Aug 2020

Five states hold primaries today, including Minnesota, where Rep. Ilhan Omar is running to keep her ...

New Executive Order

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

Trump signed a bunch of executive orders and actions over the weekend that he presented as a fix to ...

N-R-Ain't

Fri, 7 Aug 2020

New York’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Assoc...

Convention Goes Electric

Thu, 6 Aug 2020

Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee for the DNC, and neither are other primetime speakers ...

It's Been A Minute, Minneapolis

Wed, 5 Aug 2020

The Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the Minneapolis Police Department over a month ago, bu...

Work From Homeroom

Tue, 4 Aug 2020

The school year is officially beginning in some states and there have already been disruptions due t...

USPS We Can

Mon, 3 Aug 2020

Disruptions and delays to the postal service have prompted concern since so many people are planning...

Can You Veep A Secret

Fri, 31 Jul 2020

The Biden campaign says they will announce his VP pick any day now. According to reports, over a doz...

I Don't Get No Relief

Thu, 30 Jul 2020

Rent is due next week, but we still don’t have a new relief bill to extend federal unemployment as...

In Tech We Antitrust

Wed, 29 Jul 2020

The CEO’s of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet will testify before Congress today in hearings ...

Moderna Medicine

Tue, 28 Jul 2020

Pharmaceutical company Moderna entered phase three trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, and plans to test...

Jobless This Mess

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

Florida has now passed New York in total known coronavirus cases, making it the second worst-hit sta...

Landlord Szn

Fri, 24 Jul 2020

The federal eviction moratorium from the CARES Act expires today, leaving up to 12 million people vu...

Don't Burst My NBA Bubble

Thu, 23 Jul 2020

NBA games start next week with just 22 qualifying teams finishing off the season that the pandemic p...

Makes No Census

Wed, 22 Jul 2020

Trump signed a memo yesterday that aims to omit undocumented immigrants from the census count. It se...

Season's Briefings

Tue, 21 Jul 2020

Trump says he’s bringing back coronavirus briefings starting today. The largest teachers union in ...

Portland Authority

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

Civil rights activists Rep. John Lewis and Minister CT Vivian passed away on Friday. Democrats in Co...

Hack In The USSR

Fri, 17 Jul 2020

The US, Canada, and Britain are alleging that Russian cyberspies are trying to steal coronavirus vac...

The Perks Of Being A Walmarter

Thu, 16 Jul 2020

All 5,300 plus Walmarts and Sam’s Clubs nationwide will begin requiring shoppers to wear masks nex...

BCC The CDC

Wed, 15 Jul 2020

We talk to The Atlantic’s Ed Yong about how public health workers and officials are fighting the p...

There's Something About Fauci

Tue, 14 Jul 2020

California is re-closing many of its businesses as cases continue to rise. LA County and San Diego C...

May The Task Force Be With You

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

Arizona’s governor pushed back the start of the school year from early-August to mid-August since ...

This Land Is Your Land

Fri, 10 Jul 2020

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that much of eastern Oklahoma is Native American tribal land, and ...

The Endless Summer

Thu, 9 Jul 2020

As the summer weeks go by, and the virus rages on, the big question remains: How to go back to schoo...

Operation Warp Speed Ahead

Wed, 8 Jul 2020

The Trump administration officially started the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organiz...

Aid In America

Tue, 7 Jul 2020

Emergency unemployment benefits included in the CARES Act are set to expire at the end of the month....

Captain America: Culture War

Mon, 6 Jul 2020

Scientists worldwide want the World Health Organization to take a stronger stance on airborne transm...

Your Antibody Is A Wonderland

Fri, 26 Jun 2020

New antibody data from the CDC indicates that only 1 in 10 COVID-19 cases in the country have been ...

It Takes Two Bills To Make Reform Go Right

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

Democrats in the Senate blocked a Republican police reform bill yesterday, and Democrats in the Hous...

Meat The Packers

Wed, 24 Jun 2020

An estimated 25,000 cases of COVID-19 are tied to U.S. meatpacking plants, where employees work in c...

Visas Banned in DC

Tue, 23 Jun 2020

Trump signed a new executive order yesterday temporarily barring new foreign workers from coming to ...

To The Left, To The Left

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

New York, Virginia, and Kentucky have primaries on Tuesday. We speak with two progressive candidates...

DREAM On

Fri, 19 Jun 2020

The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can’ t immediately end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals o...

The Amazing Trace

Thu, 18 Jun 2020

COVID-19 cases have plateaued in the US at around 20,000 a day as some states are seeing outbreaks g...

Disqualified Immunity with Rep. Ayanna Pressley

Wed, 17 Jun 2020

Trump signed a fairly inconsequential executive order yesterday that is supposed to incentivize poli...

Pride And Joy

Tue, 16 Jun 2020

Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ+ employees from workplac...

Black Trans Lives Matter

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a white officer in Atlanta this weekend, in another horrific ...

CHAZ Good As It Gets

Fri, 12 Jun 2020

Police in Seattle abandoned their East Precinct building and ceded about six blocks of the city to p...

More Police Money, More Police Problems

Thu, 11 Jun 2020

More than a third of states are seeing increases in Covid-19 cases in the last week. It’s hard to ...

Georgia In My Line

Wed, 10 Jun 2020

Georgia held its primary yesterday, and in a state where officials have been accused of voter suppre...

Extreme Cop Makeover

Tue, 9 Jun 2020

Democrats in Congress introduced the Justice In Policing Act yesterday, which includes a ban on chok...

MPD Unplugged

Mon, 8 Jun 2020

Minneapolis City Council members have said they intend to disband the Minneapolis Police Department ...

Still Marching After All These Years

Fri, 5 Jun 2020

Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis published a scathing indictment of his presidency, and...

No Statues For Bad Men

Thu, 4 Jun 2020

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has upgraded charges against George Floyd’s killer Derek ...

Presidential Insurrection

Wed, 3 Jun 2020

Trump’s threat to deploy military to states to help squash unrest would require him to use the Ins...

Curfew Enthusiasm

Tue, 2 Jun 2020

Protests against racial violence continued in well over 100 cities, leading local officials to conti...

Protesting 1, 2, 3

Mon, 1 Jun 2020

Protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd continued throughout the weekend. There w...

Trump Orders You To Log Off

Fri, 29 May 2020

President Trump signed an executive order aimed at social media companies yesterday. We explain what...

The Sisterhood Of The Traveling RNC

Thu, 28 May 2020

The planned site of the Republican National Convention this August is North Carolina, one of the sta...

Racism Cont'd

Wed, 27 May 2020

George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis this week, in an abusive and excessive sho...

Dropping The Bolsonaro

Tue, 26 May 2020

The US has imposed a ban on flights from Brazil because of a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases and d...

Grand Re-Opening, Grand Re-Closing

Fri, 22 May 2020

China’s leaders are poised to impose a controversial new national security law in Hong Kong. The l...

We'll CDC What Happens

Thu, 21 May 2020

The CDC has quietly posted a report with detailed suggestions about how to reopen. We dig into it an...

Contact Tracing: There's An App For That

Wed, 20 May 2020

Contact tracing apps have been adopted in countries around the world to track the spread of COVID-19...

WHO's Fault Is It Anyway?

Tue, 19 May 2020

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify this morning a...

1-800-Grifthub

Mon, 18 May 2020

Democrats in Congress are launching an inquiry into Trump’s firing of an inspector general at the ...

How To Get Away With Burr-der

Fri, 15 May 2020

Today the House is set to vote on a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package that Senate Republicans s...

Necessity Is The Mother Of Convention

Thu, 14 May 2020

Former vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright will testify before a house subcommittee today—he’s the guy...

The Wind Cries Fauci

Wed, 13 May 2020

Top U.S. health officials took questions from the Senate Health Committee yesterday on coronavirus. ...

The State Of South Dakota Vs. Common Sense

Tue, 12 May 2020

The governor of South Dakota threatened to sue two Sioux tribes over road checkpoints they have set ...

The Covid Is Coming From Inside The White House

Mon, 11 May 2020

Top US health officials are self-isolating and quarantining after a couple White House employees tes...

It's Not Easy Making Vaccine

Thu, 7 May 2020

The vaccine race is on, with several companies, governments, and academic labs working on lots of di...

Don't Be Like Mike

Wed, 6 May 2020

Vice President Mike Pence says the federal coronavirus task force could be disbanded within a month...

Leaky Projectors

Tue, 5 May 2020

A leaked government projection shows the US daily death toll from Covid-19 reaching 3,000 by June, w...

Businesses Are People Too

Mon, 4 May 2020

As dozens of states reopen, Senator Mitch McConnell wants liability protections for businesses, so t...

Mega-Strike May Day

Fri, 1 May 2020

It’s the first of the month, which means rent is due for millions of Americans, workers are going ...

The Incredible Shrinking Economy

Thu, 30 Apr 2020

New GDP data show the economy shrank at a 4.8% annual rate in January, February and March. That’s ...

Hamburger Help Us

Wed, 29 Apr 2020

Trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping meat-processing plants open by designating them as ...

The Great British Vaccine Off with Jon Favreau

Tue, 28 Apr 2020

Scientists at Oxford University have developed at Covid-19 vaccine that’s safe and effective in mo...

Trump Gets De-Pressed

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

President Trump might be doing away with his hour-plus daily coronavirus briefings, which is a relie...

The Mitch Get Mitcher

Fri, 24 Apr 2020

Senator Mitch McConnell thinks states should declare bankruptcy rather than get bailed out by the fe...

Whistleblow While You Work From Home

Thu, 23 Apr 2020

The doctor in charge of US government’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine was dismissed this...

Trump's Red Light on Green Cards

Wed, 22 Apr 2020

Trump is preparing an executive order that will suspend the issuing of green cards for 60 days. We s...

Mind Your Small Business

Tue, 21 Apr 2020

As Congress continues to negotiate their next relief bill, Democrats are pushing for a requirement t...

You Can't Always Test Who You Want

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

Congress is nearing a deal on a new round of funding for small businesses, hospitals and to ramp up ...

Full Contact Tracing

Fri, 17 Apr 2020

The Trump administration is now saying what everyone else knew all along: it’s up to the states to...

Stimulus Check, Please!

Thu, 16 Apr 2020

Over 80 million Americans should have seen their coronavirus stimulus payments deposited in their ba...

Governors Of The World, Unite!

Wed, 15 Apr 2020

After suggesting that he had “total authority” to determine when states reopen their economies, ...

Leftward Joe with Rep. Ilhan Omar

Tue, 14 Apr 2020

We interview Congresswoman Ilhan Omar about what progressives want from presumptive Democratic presi...

Minding The Race Gap

Mon, 13 Apr 2020

States are trying different approaches to address coronavirus racial disparities, from forming a tas...

Viruses Are Taking Our Jobs

Fri, 10 Apr 2020

Another 6.6 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, meaning that more than 16 mill...

Exit Sandman

Thu, 9 Apr 2020

Senator Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, but his ideas may live on. Vic...

Relief Reloaded with Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Wed, 8 Apr 2020

Lawmakers are considering a second relief package to provide assistance to people who were left out ...

Wisconsin's Pandemic Primary

Tue, 7 Apr 2020

Wisconsin will be moving forward with in-person voting today, despite efforts to postpone the electi...

Locked Up During Lockdown

Mon, 6 Apr 2020

We interview Keri Blakinger, a reporter at The Marshall Project who covers prisons, on how jails and...

The View From The ICU

Fri, 3 Apr 2020

We interview Dr. Shaoli Chaudhuri, a resident at Columbia Medical Center in Manhattan, about what sh...

Repro Rights Are An Essential Service

Thu, 2 Apr 2020

We talk to acting President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson about the state of r...

Curve Your Enthusiasm

Wed, 1 Apr 2020

We interview New York Times reporter Caitlin Dickerson about the far-reaching effects the pandemic i...

When They Furlough, We Go High

Tue, 31 Mar 2020

Efforts to bring unhoused people inside have been growing as the coronavirus outbreak takes hold, bu...

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Mutual Aid

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Mutual-aid networks, which allow neighbors and community members to pool resources, have blossomed d...

Live From The Epicenter

Fri, 27 Mar 2020

The United States now has the most known COVID-19 cases in the world. We discuss the areas that have...

What's In The Rescue Bill With Sen. Sherrod Brown

Thu, 26 Mar 2020

The senate approved a nearly $2 trillion relief package to respond to the coronavirus pandemic yeste...

Letters From The War On Covid-19

Wed, 25 Mar 2020

Equipment shortages, exposure, and empathy: we hear from healthcare workers who are fighting Covid-1...

Don't Slow My Scroll

Tue, 24 Mar 2020

Is America’s internet prepared for all of us to be online all of the time? We interview FCC commis...

The Sick And The Testless

Mon, 23 Mar 2020

We interview Alexis Madrigal, staff writer at the Atlantic and founder of The COVID Tracking project...

An Epidemiologist Answers Covid-19 Questions (Part 2)

Fri, 20 Mar 2020

We’re joined once again by physician and former Detroit health commissioner Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to ...

Talking Cash With Cory Booker

Thu, 19 Mar 2020

Senator Cory Booker joins us to discuss a proposal he’s drafted with fellow senators to give payme...

If You Have A Stalled Economy And Need Cash Now

Wed, 18 Mar 2020

Yesterday, three states voted in the first post-pandemic-declaration elections of the presidential p...

Pandemocracy!

Tue, 17 Mar 2020

Covid-19 has hit the US economy hard, devastating the stock market and prompting limited hours and l...

The Social Distancing Network

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

Covid-19 continues to upend events, entire healthcare systems, and economies worldwide. We discuss t...

An Epidemiologist Clears Up Covid-19

Fri, 13 Mar 2020

Physician and former Detroit health commissioner Abdul El-Sayed comes on the show to discuss Covid-1...

So... What's The Plandemic?

Thu, 12 Mar 2020

The WHO has officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. And last night, President Trump announce...

Here We Joe Again

Wed, 11 Mar 2020

It was another good night for former Vice President Joe Biden, who has taken command of the race for...

The Economy Catches Coronavirus

Tue, 10 Mar 2020

Yesterday, US stock markets had their worst day since the financial crisis in 2008. So many investor...

Campaigning In The Time Of Coronavirus

Mon, 9 Mar 2020

The presidential primary is in full swing, and unfortunately, so is COVID-19. We look at the precaut...

You’re Gonna Liz Me When I’m Gone

Fri, 6 Mar 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren exited the presidential race on Thursday following disappointing results in...

No Test For The Sicked

Thu, 5 Mar 2020

Super Wednesday kicked off with a bang: former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg dropping out of the race. Pl...

They Joe Up So Fast

Wed, 4 Mar 2020

Yesterday was Super Tuesday, where 14 states and one territory voted in the presidential primary. Fo...

Votin’ Up On A Tuesday

Tue, 3 Mar 2020

Today is Super Tuesday, where 14 states and one territory will vote. It’s the biggest day of the p...

Don’t You (Forget About Pete)

Mon, 2 Mar 2020

The government is beginning to dole out COVID-19 testing kits, and hundreds of medical centers in th...

Biden Bets on South Carolina

Fri, 28 Feb 2020

South Carolina goes to the polls on Saturday. There are 54 delegates at stake and it’s the first s...

Czar You There Mike Pence? It's Me, Coronavirus

Thu, 27 Feb 2020

President Donald Trump held a press conference yesterday in conjunction with the CDC to update the n...

Dems Debate In The Palmetto State

Wed, 26 Feb 2020

Last night seven democratic presidential candidates took the stage in Charleston, South Carolina for...

That's A Wrap On Harvey Weinstein

Tue, 25 Feb 2020

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on two counts of felony sex crimes. Th...

I Felt The Bern In Reno

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Bernie Sanders had a dominating win in the Nevada caucus on Saturday. As of Sunday night, he had cap...

Betting On The Nevada Caucus

Fri, 21 Feb 2020

The Nevada caucuses are on Saturday. It’s the third contest in the 2020 Democratic presidential pr...

Debate Night Las Vegas

Thu, 20 Feb 2020

Six presidential candidates took the stage in Las Vegas last night for the last debate before the Ne...

Trump’s Eleven

Wed, 19 Feb 2020

President Trump went on a pardoning spree on Tuesday, giving commutations or pardon to 11 individual...

Bezos Gives Back

Tue, 18 Feb 2020

An extremely rich man wants to do a good thing: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced a pledge...

Meme-Lord Mike Bloomberg

Fri, 14 Feb 2020

Major US newspaper publisher McClatchy, which owns The Miami Herald and dozens of other daily newspa...

The Barr Has Been Lowered

Thu, 13 Feb 2020

The sentencing recommendation for former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone got shortened by the DOJ...

Mr. Sanders Wins New Hampshire

Wed, 12 Feb 2020

Senator Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night with around 26 percent of the vot...

Trump’s 4.8 Trillion Dollar Wish List

Tue, 11 Feb 2020

Today is the day of the New Hampshire primary, which will hopefully be the first totally worry-free ...

Vote Free Or Die

Mon, 10 Feb 2020

The New Hampshire primary is on Tuesday and we’re on-the-ground describing what the 2020 candidate...

Iowa Wish I Could Quit You

Fri, 7 Feb 2020

The Iowa caucuses took place on Monday night and more full results have finally started to come in. ...

Requiem For A Mango Vape Pod

Thu, 6 Feb 2020

Yesterday afternoon the Senate voted to acquit President Trump of two articles of impeachment. Senat...

Adiós Impeachment!

Wed, 5 Feb 2020

We are on to day three of the never-ending PTA meeting also known as the Iowa caucus and as of yet t...

Iowait The Results Of The Caucuses

Tue, 4 Feb 2020

The Iowa caucuses were a joyous affair, filled with high hopes, hard work, and spirited neighborly d...

Iowa: That’s What’s Happening with Tommy Vietor

Mon, 3 Feb 2020

Tonight is the night of the Iowa Caucuses, so if you haven’t been paying attention, here’s your ...

News Kids On The Medicaid Block Grant

Fri, 31 Jan 2020

The Trump administration unveiled a new Medicaid plan, which gives states the opportunity to convert...

The Cure For Coronavirus Panic

Thu, 30 Jan 2020

As of Wednesday night, there are more than 7,700 coronavirus cases in at least 20 countries, includi...

The Argument For Still Caring About Impeachment

Wed, 29 Jan 2020

President Trump’s impeachment defense has rested its case before the Senate. This after they only ...

Don’t Buy Bolton’s Book

Tue, 28 Jan 2020

President Trump’s legal team presented their defense in the Senate impeachment trial, charging on...

’Twas The Week Before Iowa

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

There’s just one week until the Iowa caucuses, where voters will get their first chance to pick t...

Trump Vs. Social Security

Fri, 24 Jan 2020

President Trump mentioned taking a look at cuts to Social Security. We discuss the implications and...

The Little Travel Ban That Could

Thu, 23 Jan 2020

Impeachment continued on Wednesday with House managers beginning to lay out their case for why Pres...

Milking Impeachment For All It’s Worth

Wed, 22 Jan 2020

The Senate impeachment trial for President Trump began on Tuesday, featuring debates over the rules...

Trump’s Stellar Legal Team

Tue, 21 Jan 2020

The impeachment trial for President Trump officially kicks off today in the Senate. We’ll see if ...

The Florida Voter Suppression Project

Fri, 17 Jan 2020

Florida’s Supreme Court passed a ruling that will restrict voting rights for people who have been...

Lev Parnas Alone!

Thu, 16 Jan 2020

The House of Representatives turned in the articles of impeachment to the Senate on Wednesday, kick...

Dems Debate In Des Moines

Wed, 15 Jan 2020

Last night was the seventh democratic debate featuring the smallest candidate pool yet. Just six ca...

The Apple Of Bill Barr’s Eye

Tue, 14 Jan 2020

Attorney General Bill Barr wants Apple’s help unlocking the iPhone of a Saudi Arabian shooter who ...

Define “Imminent Threat From Soleimani”

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

In the days since the Trump administration killed Qasem Soleimani, there’s been little consensus ...

The Hitchhiker's Guide To Impeachment

Fri, 10 Jan 2020

US and Canadian officials think the plane that crashed in Iran was struck by a surface-to-air missi...

Avoiding War In Iran And Cancer In America

Thu, 9 Jan 2020

President Trump announced economic sanctions on Iran following Tuesday’s missile strikes, but he ...

Between Iraq And An Earth Quake

Wed, 8 Jan 2020

Iranian forces launched ballistic missiles against two military bases in Iraq that house US troops....

Confessions Of A Dangerous Bolton

Tue, 7 Jan 2020

Former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton said that if he’s subpoenaed by the Sena...

New Year, New War?

Mon, 6 Jan 2020

The US assassinated Iranian Major General Qassim Suleimani via drone strike last Friday. We discuss...

Last Debate of the Decade

Fri, 20 Dec 2019

The last Democratic debate of 2019 was last night, featuring impeachment, wine caves, and some of t...

A Big Beautiful Impeachment

Thu, 19 Dec 2019

The House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Co...

Impeachment Vote And New Findings From The Tulsa Massacre

Wed, 18 Dec 2019

Today House Democrats are expected to formally vote to impeach Donald Trump. He now joins Andrew Jo...

The (Voter) Purge: Election Day

Tue, 17 Dec 2019

Boeing announced it will stop making 737 Max Jetliners next month. We talk about what it means for ...

My Fair Juror (Starring Lindsey Graham)

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

The location of Thursday’s Democratic presidential primary is in question because food service wo...

The FTC Won’t Let FB Be

Fri, 13 Dec 2019

The FTC is reportedly considering a court order to block Facebook from integrating WhatsApp, Instag...

Boris Battles For Britain

Thu, 12 Dec 2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defends his title today as the nation holds general elections....

Born In The USMCA

Wed, 11 Dec 2019

House Democrats have reached a deal with Trump on the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, which ...

Special Report-a-thon: Russia and Afghanistan

Tue, 10 Dec 2019

A report from the Inspector General has revealed Trump’s claim that the FBI spied on him in 2016 ...

Warren Peace

Mon, 9 Dec 2019

On Saturday, the House Judiciary Committee released their impeachment report, which is essentially ...

The Ghost of America’s Health Care Future

Fri, 6 Dec 2019

A multi-million-dollar lobbying group is running ads in early primary voting states against Medicar...

Trump’s “Screw Everyone That Isn’t Us” Mandate

Thu, 5 Dec 2019

The USDA released a new food stamp rule that would kick an estimated 755,000 people off food benef...

Kamala’s Second Act

Wed, 4 Dec 2019

California Senator Kamala Harris suspended her presidential campaign on Tuesday. We discuss the fac...

Look Julian's Talking

Tue, 3 Dec 2019

We talk to presidential candidate and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro ...

If The Quid Didn’t Hit, You Must Acquit

Mon, 2 Dec 2019

The Supreme Court will hear a major gun rights case today, which could lead to the expansion of the...

Turkey Confrontations And Opioid Reparations

Wed, 27 Nov 2019

Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal probe of opioid makers and distributors, a type of inv...

London’s Burning (Uber’s License)

Tue, 26 Nov 2019

A judge rules that White House lawyer Don McGahn must testify to congress despite Trump's efforts t...

China's Detainment Camps and Bloomberg's First Week

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

New leaked documents detail how far the Chinese government has gone to detain ethnic minorities and...

High High Hopes For Impeachment

Fri, 22 Nov 2019

Fiona Hill and David Holmes close out a week in testimonies and Schiff brings the gavel down with a...

Tyler Perry’s “Gordon Sondland”

Thu, 21 Nov 2019

During his impeachment hearing, Gordon Sondland confirms the quid-pro-quo and says his orders came ...

The Four Horsemen Of The Impeachment

Wed, 20 Nov 2019

In an epic 12 hour impeach-a-thon, four witnesses took the stand, including Lt. Colonel Vindman, Pe...

Russiagate Reloaded

Tue, 19 Nov 2019

The trial of Roger Stone has led Democrats to dust off their old yellowed copies of The Mueller Rep...

Mayor Pete’s Buttibump

Mon, 18 Nov 2019

Pete Buttigieg is surging in Iowa, and Michael Bloomberg is kicking off his late-blooming campaign ...

Battle For The Bayou

Fri, 15 Nov 2019

Two candidates for Louisiana Governor face off in a runoff election on Saturday. We introduce you t...

What To Impeach When You’re Impeaching

Thu, 14 Nov 2019

The Trump impeachment made its TV debut on Wednesday, featuring a colorful cast of characters and o...

Ghosts Of Impeachments Past And Present

Wed, 13 Nov 2019

The impeachment inquiry makes its television debut today. We discuss how previous impeachments were...

DREAMers Go To Washington

Tue, 12 Nov 2019

Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether DACA can be ended by the Trump administra...

The Real World: Ukraine

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Public impeachment hearings begin this week. We tell you who’s taking the stand and how to tell t...

Bloomberg’s Billions

Fri, 8 Nov 2019

A judge orders President Trump to pay $2 million for using donations to his charitable foundation (...

Richie Rich and Mitchie Mitch

Thu, 7 Nov 2019

Coming off Tuesday’s elections, we look ahead at key 2020 races, including a vote on Mitch McConn...

Trump Suffers The Greatest Defeat In The History Of The World

Wed, 6 Nov 2019

The voting results are in from Kentucky, Virginia, and Mississippi! We go over the results in our f...

We'll Always Have The Paris Agreement

Tue, 5 Nov 2019

Washington votes today on whether to repeal the state’s ban on affirmative action. We discuss the...

Beto's Fate and Bevin Can Wait

Mon, 4 Nov 2019

Democratic presidential candidates continue to fight for Iowa, with one less tall, counter-standing...

Virginia Is For Voters

Fri, 1 Nov 2019

In today’s big impeachment update, the House votes to endorse the impeachment inquiry. Next up, p...

Morrison Talks and Deadspin Walks

Thu, 31 Oct 2019

Big impeachment updates: Alexander Vindman tells Congress that the White House hid details of Trump...

Boeing 737 Max, NCAA Fat Stacks

Wed, 30 Oct 2019

The NCAA votes to start the process of allowing college athletes to get money while they get an edu...

Impeachment Rules and Facebook Drools

Tue, 29 Oct 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces a resolution that will formalize the impeachment inquiry. Expe...

Baghdadi and Blackouts

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in a raid by U.S. special forces in Syria. President Trump an...

Introducing “What A Day” (launching Monday, October 28th)

Tue, 15 Oct 2019

Can’t keep up with the flood of news every morning? We got you covered: What A Day, a new podcast ...