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How Hurricanes Blow Home Prices Through the Roof
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Buying a home is already so expensive in America, but climate change is poised to make it much worse—even if you don’t live in the path of a hurri...
Bill Nye, the Science Guy On "The Most Critical Election, Ever"
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of increasingly destructive natural disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton, politicians on both sides of the aisle have politici...
Trump Is Losing With Ladies
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Polls have shown that former President Donald Trump is increasingly weak when it comes to support from women. Recent Wall Street Journal polling found...
Latinos Are "Defecting" From Democratic Party feat. Paola Ramos
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a Presidential race that will be decided on the margins – there’s evidence that Vice President Kamala Harris is losing support among Black Vote...
Harris's Working Class Messaging Finds Union Support
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are working hard to earn the support of a key voting bloc this election: union voters. ...
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin Says She And Dems Can Win The 'Blue Wall'
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will spend this week barnstorming through the so-called “Blue Wall” states: Michigan, P...
Why is Jill Stein Trying to Get Trump Elected?
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Stein may not be polling high, but in several states she’s poised to bring in more votes than the margin of error between Harris and Trump. Her...
Politicians Are Fighting Weather Conspiracies
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People in Florida are assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Milton. The storm made landfall late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm just south of Tamp...
Dispatches From Hurricane Milton Evacuees
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night along Florida’s Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. It’s expected to be one of the most powerful hurr...
Hurricane Milton Set To Make Landfall
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Texas, Democratic Congressman Colin Allred is making Republican Ted Cruz work hard to keep his Senate seat, with polls showing the race within thre...
Supreme Court To Take Up Trans Rights, Ghost Guns in New Term
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court kicked off its new term Monday by opting not take up two cases that could have major implications for reproductive rights. In one de...
Trump, Musk Go “Dark MAGA” During Rally at Site of First Assassination Attempt
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump rallied with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, at the same site where a lone gunman attempted to assassina...
How Iran and Israel Became Enemies
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Iran launched ballistic missiles at Israel this week, in the latest escalation between the two Middle Eastern powers. But would you believe that 40 ye...
How Democrats Could Win The House
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are vying for the White House, neither will be able to make good on their campaig...
Widening Mid East Conflict Puts Pressure on Biden, Upcoming Election
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fighting in the Middle East between Israel, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and Iran dramatically ramped up this week. On Tuesday, Iran launche...
VP Debate: Vance and Walz Agree to Disagree?
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance met Tuesday for the first and only vice presidential debate ahead of the November election. It’s al...
Trump Plays Politics With Hurricane Helene
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The death toll from Hurricane Helene topped more than 120 people on Monday across six states in the southeast. Hundreds are still unaccounted for, and...
North Carolinians Flee Floodwaters
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Huge swaths of the Southeast are still digging out from Hurricane Helene after the storm made landfall Thursday night along Florida’s gulf coast. As...
The Plastic Recycling Long Con
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The California Attorney General sued Exxon Mobil this week for misleading the public on the sustainability of single use plastics. How did plastics re...
The WNBA's Culture Wars
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Federal officials on Thursday unsealed an inducement charging New York City Mayor Eric Adams with a litany of corruption and illegal campaign finance ...
Harris Rolls Out Her "Opportunity Economy" Plan ( feat. Kara Swisher)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris laid out what she called her “pragmatic” approach to growing the economy during a speech in Pittsburgh Wednesday. Whi...
Israel, Hezbollah Conflict Risks Bigger Regional War
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In his final address to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, President Joe Biden reflected on his foreign policy legacy and called on world leaders to “...
How To Survive Poll Whiplash (with Jon Lovett)
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s talk about polling! A bunch of new polls have us feeling a whole lot of feelings right now. 'Pod Save America' co-host Jon Lovett joins us for...
Harris Agrees to 2nd Debate, Trump Makes Excuses
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A slew of new polls shows Vice President Kamala Harris with a slim lead over former President Trump in the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania. With ...
Why Climate Groups Are Optimistic about Kamala
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kamala has offered very few details on her climate and energy plans while openly promoting American fossil fuel production. Yet a lot of climate and e...
North Carolina's Mark Robinson Extremism Revealed (Again)
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a bombshell story Thursday, CNN reported that the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, Mark Robinson, made crazy statements on a po...
Trump’s Lies About Haitian Immigrants Create Chaos In Springfield, Ohio
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the week since the presidential debate, former President Donald Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have sown chaos in th...
Congress Demands Changes From Secret Service
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Questions continue to mount around the Secret Service two days after a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On Monday, the i...
The Major Stakes Of State Supreme Court Races
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Voters in more than 30 states will get to weigh in on elections for their state supreme courts this November, with 82 seats up for grabs. While state ...
Can Harris Flip North Carolina Blue?
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're officially fewer than 50 days out from Election Day. While most of the attention has been on the five states that decided the 2020 race for Pres...
Why You’re Paying for a Billionaire’s Stadium
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
2024 is on track to be the biggest year for public stadium subsidies we’ve ever seen. Billionaire team owners keep asking for—and receiving—more...
How Democrats Intercepted Football Messaging from the GOP
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday night kicked off the start of week two of the NFL season. And after years of ceding the proverbial playing field to Republicans, Democrats ar...
The Podcast The NYPD Doesn't Want You To Hear
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been about a week since federal agents seized the phones of New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban and other top NYPD officials. Caban is on...
Harris Makes Lasting First Impression On Trump
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their first and currently only scheduled presidential de...
Harris v Trump: Debate Night
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are set to square off tonight in their first — and so far only — scheduled debate b...
Arizona Gets Ready To Vote On Abortion
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arizona is one of 10 states where voters will get to weigh in directly on abortion access in November in the form of a ballot measure that would enshr...
When Countries Ban Social Media
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brazil’s power struggle with Elon Musk over censorship on X (formerly Twitter) escalated this week, with the country’s Supreme Court upholding a b...
Trump Alienates His Base With Flip Flopping On Reproductive Rights
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign kicked off a weeks-long reproductive freedom bus tour this week, with a 50-stop route that runs through some o...
Another School Shooting: 'It Doesn't Have To Be This Way'
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia police on Wednesday said four people were killed, and nine others were taken to the hospital with injuries after a shooting at Apalachee High ...
The Gender Gap Is Widening In The 2024 Election
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new poll from ABC News/Ipsos adds more evidence to reports of a growing gender divide among voters heading into the November election. It shows Vice...
Wars In Gaza, Ukraine Grind On With New Obstacles For Ceasefire
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel spent the last few days engulfed in mass protests and paralyzed by a national strike after the bodies of six hostages, including an American Is...
Cities’ Big Plans to Climate-Proof for the Future
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record, beating out the current #1…2023. In a world where extreme heat is becoming the norm and more and ...
How Anti-Trans Laws Hurt Everyone
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we've been covering on the show for a while now, Republican-led states across the country are attacking trans communities by banning or attempting ...
Jack Smith Won’t Back Down
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Special Counsel Jack Smith is on a roll this week. On Monday, he asked an Atlanta-based appeals court to revive his federal classified documents case ...
Is Meta Done Fighting Disinformation?
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a letter to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan released on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed the Biden Administration "repeatedly pressured" the co...
Georgia Is A Major Prize In 2024. And A Legal Battlefield
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are campaigning this week in Georgia, one of the most crucial swing states in this year's pre...
How The DNC Kept "Uncommitted" Out Of The Party's Big Tent
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At last week’s Democratic National Convention, organizers tried to put unity on display by featuring speakers with a range of ideological viewpoints...
When a Presidential Convention Turns The Election
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The balloons are deflated. The halls have gone quiet. And the entire city of Chicago is, once more, nursing a hangover. But did the DNC really change ...
No Beyoncé, No Problem: Kamala Harris Captivates The DNC
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for President Thursday night on the final day of the Democratic National Co...
Harris-Walz Ticket Gives Young Voters New Hope
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Democratic National Convention continued Wednesday night as Tim Walz formally accepted the nomination for Vice President. He went full "coach mode...
"Do Something": How Stacey Abrams And Organizers On The Left Are Mobilizing In 2024
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday night’s DNC turned into a raucous celebration as delegates from each state showed off their local pride while casting their votes for Vice P...
The DNC Says Farewell To Biden, Hello To Harris
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday night, President Joe Biden kicked off the Democratic National Convention. In his speech, a political swan song, Biden looked back on his maj...
The DNC Protests You Should Know About
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Democratic National Convention kicks off today in Chicago. While Vice President Kamala Harris is riding a lot of positive momentum into the DNC ah...
Could Vance Sink Trump? History Says: Maybe!
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been about a month since former President Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance to be his running mate on the Republican ticket. And in that short amou...
How Low Will Dems Go?
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eight years after Michelle Obama's famous "When they go low, we go high" speech, Democrats have been changing their rhetorical strategy on the campaig...
'The Squad' Wins Some, Loses Others
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar easily won her primary race on Tuesday in a rematch against an opponent she beat by just a few thousand votes two years ago....
West Coast Cities Grapple With SCOTUS Grants Pass Decision
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the West Coast, cities and counties are still figuring out their approach to homelessness roughly a month after the Supreme Court gave them the...
Iran Has (Allegedly) Entered The Chat
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, The FBI confirmed it's investigating claims that Iran hacked the Trump campaign. The agency did not publicly release additional information...
How Black Voters Matter Is Organizing For Harris
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris is well on her way to shoring up the kind of historic support from Black voters that was starting to slip away from Presi...
Tim Walz's Progressive Realism, Explained
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In front of a crowd of thousands at a rally in Philadelphia this week, Vice President Kamala Harris made her first appearance with her newly-minted ru...
Trump Is Getting Nervous
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today marks one decade since 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's death at the hands of a white law enforcement off...
Harris-Walz Centers Reproductive Choice
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reproductive choice is on the ballot in 2024, and Vice President Kamala Harris is making it a central issue in her presidential campaign. Harris has b...
Governor Walz Comes Out Swinging
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After much deliberation, Vice President Kamala Harris announced Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on Tuesday. The two debuted together later...
Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush Is Fighting To Keep Her Seat
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
St. Louis, Missouri, residents will vote on Tuesday in one of the most expensive Democratic primaries of the 2024 election cycle. The Congresswoman wh...
Kamala Harris' Time As DA: Cop or Progressive?
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When then-Sen. Kamala Harris ran for president in the 2020 election, progressive activists quickly labeled her a “cop,” a reference to her time as...
Who Will Silicon Valley Support In 2024?
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Silicon Valley leaders have been weighing in loudly on the upcoming presidential race. Over four hundred venture capitalists and other tech executives...
Misogynoir Takes Center Stage During Q&A With Trump At NABJ
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump took to the main stage at the National Association of Black Journalists' annual convention in Chicag...
All The Vice President's White Men
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage on Tuesday at a campaign rally in Atlanta in front of a crowd of thousands. She was joined by some celebri...
Democrats Get Serious About Court Reform
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced an ambitious three-part plan to reform the Supreme Court. He’s calling for term limits, a binding ethics co...
"Smart On Crime": How VP Harris's Record As Prosecutor Could Impact The 2024 Race
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Almost as soon as Vice President Kamala Harris jumped into the 2024 presidential race, she found a message to set her apart from former President Dona...
Here's The Best Clue We Have on Kamala Harris' Foreign Policy
27 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vice President Kamala Harris is hitting the campaign trail, but her talking points don’t shed much light on her approach to foreign policy. With war...
The Paris Olympics Gets Political
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Paris Summer Olympics holds opening ceremonies today, officially kicking off 16 days of elite athletic competition. USA gymnastics legend Simone B...
Voters Outside The Democratic Base Weigh In On VP Harris
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, President Biden addressed the nation in an Oval Office speech — three days after he announced his decision to end his re-election bid ...
Will Vice President Harris Follow Biden's Lead on Middle East Policy?
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, D.C., today to address a joint session of Congress. On Tuesday, hundreds of demonstrators ...
Why Democrats Aren't Afraid of GOP Legal Challenges to VP Harris's Candidacy
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Vice President Kamala Harris in position to receive the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Republicans like House Speaker Mike Johnson...
Biden Exits The Race, Kamala Harris Races To Replace Him
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is ending his re-election bid and is throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democr...
Will the Trump Assassination Attempt Change the 2024 Race?
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the moment someone shot Donald Trump last weekend, we’ve been hearing the same thing: this election’s over, and it’s going to Trump. But t...
RNC 2024: Same Old Trump
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Donald Trump wrapped up this week’s Republican National Convention on Thursday night with the longest speech in convention history....
Three Weeks After The Debate, More Dems Call For Biden To Step Down
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday was jam-packed with new developments on and around the Democratic campaign trail. The White House announced that President Biden tested posi...
Breaking Down Project 2025
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the outskirts of this week's Republican National Convention, the ultra-conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation held a "Policy Fest" to disc...
From Foe to Bro: JD Vance is Trump's VP
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Donald Trump chose Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate on Monday, just as Republicans kicked off their national convention in Mi...
A Call For Unity After Trump Assassination Attempt
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at one of his campaign rallies in Pennsylvania. While Trump was not serio...
How Democrats Lost The Power to Remove Biden
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why isn’t there a way for party leaders to get together—in a back room, ideally somewhere dark and smokey—and just give Biden the boot? As it tu...
Biden's NATO Presser Leaves Democrats Still Divided
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden on Thursday wrapped up this week’s NATO summit in Washington by giving his first solo press conference since November. Despite m...
Polls Show Biden's Narrowing Path To Victory
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lawmakers continue to weigh in on the fate of President Biden’s re-election campaign. Vermont’s Peter Welch on Wednesday became the first Democrat...
The Anti-Abortion Agenda Hiding In The GOP's Platform
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans appeared to soften their stance on abortion ahead of next week’s party convention and adopted a policy platform this week that didn’t ...
Biden Says He's Isn't Going Anywhere
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Biden continued to aggressively push back on the idea that he would drop out of the presidential race. He started Monday morning by sending ...
Biden Defies Calls To Exit The Presidential Race
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden spent the long July Fourth weekend trying to save his re-election bid after his disastrous debate performance more than a week ago...
Dems Change Their Tune About Biden For President
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We may be starting to see a seismic shift in how the Democratic Party publicly talks about whether President Joe Biden should remain the party’s pre...
Supreme Court Grants Trump Some Immunity From Prosecution
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed former President Donald Trump a major win on Monday, granting him broad — though not full — immun...
Could Biden Be Replaced?
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Biden campaign spent the weekend trying to contain the damage from the president’s devastating performance in Thursday night’s presidential de...
The Origins of America's Toxic Obsession With Lawns
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is America so obsessed with lawns and order? Max and Erin get into the weeds of how the founding fathers made cultivating grass an American pastim...
Debate Night: What A Disaster
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well… that happened. In the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle, President Biden failed to ease concerns about his age, igniting pa...
Ready, Set, Debate!
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to square off tonight in their first debate of the presidential election — and the fir...
Republicans Turn To Cheap Fakes In The Presidential Election
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ready or not, tomorrow is debate day. And both President Joe Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 78, are under a lot of pressure to show the...
Progressives and Centrists Spar In Major NY Democratic Primary
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s New York primary elections, voters in the state’s 16th Congressional District will decide what’s become the most expensive House prim...
The State of Abortion Access Two Years After Roe
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that for decad...
Is This Progressive Answer to Crime Working?
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a way to send fewer people to prison while lowering crime rates? This week’s How We Got Here unpacks the progressive prosecutor movement—...
Congress Weighs Drafting Women To Military
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Congress is weighing proposals to update mandatory military conscription policies — aka the draft — including whether to expand it to include wome...
The Push For Federal Action On Extreme Heat
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tens of millions of Americans in the Northeast and Midwest are sweating through their first major heatwave of the year. Heat is the deadliest of all n...