Weekly Roundup: September 17th
Saturday's "Justice For J6" rally is being held to protest government treatment of people who participated in the riot. It could serve as a test of how the Capitol Police force has evolved since Janua...
17 Syys 202126min
Interview: EMILY's List President On Electing Democratic Women
The group was founded in 1985 to get Democratic women who back abortion access elected to office and has faced criticism in the years since from people who say the group has not done enough to support...
16 Syys 202114min
With Big Plans And Small Margins, Can Democrats Pull Off Their Agenda?
Progressives feel as though their job compromising on the $3.5 trillion dollar budget bill is done, while Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema say the package is still too big. Looming over it all, a ...
15 Syys 202114min
Here Are The Tough Questions Congress Asked About Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal
Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before both the House and the Senate this week, where he met with bipartisan frustration over the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan after the country's gover...
14 Syys 202114min
Should Athletes Be Activists? WNBA Star Nneka Ogwumike Says They Have To Be
The WBNA's political activism helped to reshape the political landscape in Washington. NPR's Franco Ordoñez and Ayesha Rascoe talked to Nneka Ogwumike, head of the league's players union, about its ro...
13 Syys 202117min
Listen: How The Country Remembered 9/11, Two Decades Later
There were remembrance ceremonies in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. The reading of the victim's names — there were nearly 3,000 — took hours. Former President George W. Bush and Vic...
11 Syys 202115min
Weekly Roundup: September 10th
The number of new COVID cases hasn't been this high since before the vaccine was widely available. Aiming to curb the rise, President Biden has announced a series of expansive new policies covering th...
10 Syys 202128min
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Told Us He Isn't Retiring. Yet.
In a conversation with NPR's Nina Totenberg, Justice Breyer, 83, says he plans to retire from the High Court before he dies. He bemoaned the public's perception of Supreme Court Justices as politician...
9 Syys 202122min
