Police Reform Failed In Congress, So Biden Takes What He Can Get
An opt-in police misconduct database and new conduct standards for federal police: President Biden's police reform executive action enacts reforms that fall well short of what advocates hoped for. Law...
26 Touko 202213min
Federal Gun Restrictions Are Likely Doomed in the Senate
A mass shooting at a Texas elementary school has many Americans again asking what can be done about gun violence. But in the face of broad Republican opposition in the Senate, there's likely no path f...
25 Touko 202214min
Voters With Disabilities Worry About Their Ability To Cast Ballots In Wisconsin
A court case has some voters with disabilities worried that they will not be able to rely on family or caretakers for help casting a vote without breaking the law, despite federal protections. This ep...
24 Touko 202212min
Biden Visits South Korea And Japan, Emphasizing Trade To Counter China
President Biden said the U.S. Military would defend Taiwan if China invaded. He also announced a new, if nebulous, economic compact with 12 nations designed to counter China's influence in the region ...
23 Touko 202213min
Weekly Roundup: May 20th
U.S. government tariffs and Department of Agriculture buying practices helped drive consolidation in the baby formula industry. When a major plant shuttered over contamination concerns in February, th...
20 Touko 202225min
Will Threats To Abortion Access Motivate Democratic Voters? Maybe.
The leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court earlier this month that showed the majority-conservative court ready to overturn Roe v. Wade has led two-thirds of Democrats to say that they are mor...
19 Touko 202212min
MAGA Republicans Dominate Key North Carolina, Pennsylvania Primaries
In North Carolina, Rep. Ted Budd — boosted by Donald Trump's endorsement — secured a decisive win over the state's former two-term governor.And in Pennsylvania, Trump's pick for governor won the prima...
18 Touko 202213min
American Conservatives Are Smitten With Hungary's Increasingly Autocratic Leader
A prominent conference of American conservatives — the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) — will take place in Hungary this week. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has curtailed institutio...
17 Touko 202212min
