After A $500B Haircut, WH Infrastructure Plan Isn't Attracting More Republicans
The White House dropped half a trillion dollars in spending from Biden's infrastructure and stimulus proposal in an ongoing show of "bipartisanship," but the cuts weren't to the levels or areas that w...
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The Winners And Losers Of America's Economic Transformation
Alec MacGillis' book Fulfillment tells the story of America's three-decade long economic transformation through the lens of Amazon's rise to corporate dominance. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews t...
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Weekly Roundup: May 21st
The left flank of the Democratic party has exerted a lot of influence over the Biden administration on issues like climate change and economic strain. Will progressive sway Biden on Israel, too? And c...
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Are Expanded Unemployment Benefits Keeping People From Returning To Work?
Twenty-two Republican led states are planning to roll back expanded unemployment benefits, because they say the benefits are keeping people from returning to work. Progressives argue employers need to...
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Supreme Court Will Consider Guns And Abortion Before 2022 Election
The court, a 6-to-3 conservative majority, has increasingly filled the legislative role abdicated by a dysfunctional Congress. And as Republican leadership balks at a commission to investigate the Jan...
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Biden Won Georgia And Arizona. Why Are Their Democratic Senators So Different?
The states both have long histories of Republican control, but the two pairs of senators have taken remarkably different tactics in Congress. Arizona's Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema came to Washington...
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How Black And White Americans' Views On Race Differ
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll out Monday reveals how Americans view race after a white police officer was found guilty of George Floyd's murder.More Poll ResultsThis episode: demographics and cul...
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Weekly Roundup: May 14th
Escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence presents a new hurdle for an administration that has tried to stay laser-focused on its own legislative agenda. And the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
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