How Pelosi Holds the Line on Impeachment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s political philosophy is an elegant one: If you want to do something bold, you must follow public sentiment, not lead it. Now why can’t House Democrats seem to shape public...
19 Kesä 201922min
Strange Alliances on the Supreme Court
It’s June, which means it’s the season of highly anticipated Supreme Court rulings. We’re taking a look at two cases that shook up the typical partisan fault line on the bench. How did conservative an...
18 Kesä 201921min
For Women’s Soccer, An Elusive Goal
At the Women’s World Cup this year, the U.S. players talk about living in a “bubble” -- thinking of nothing but the game, eschewing any distractions. What looms outside that bubble is their lawsuit ag...
17 Kesä 201921min
What Bernie Gets Wrong About Socialism
The Bernie Sanders campaign billed his speech on Wednesday as a “major address on how democratic socialism is the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism.” Besides being a mouthful, the spee...
14 Kesä 201920min
How Facebook Made an Enemy of Nancy Pelosi
Mark Zuckerberg used to avoid traveling to Washington, D.C., leaving a lot of the political outreach Facebook needed to do to COO Sheryl Sandberg. Now? He’s personally putting in phone calls to Speake...
13 Kesä 201918min
How Driverless Cars Will Actually Work
In this episode April Glaser talks to Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora, a company that builds the technology for self-driving cars. Urmson offers a timeline for when we might see autonomous vehicles on the...
13 Kesä 201923min
It’s Mitch McConnell’s Swamp. We Just Live in It.
If you walk to the Ohio riverfront from Owensboro’s City Hall, past the Courthouse, and the Museum of Science and History, you’ll get to McConnell Plaza. Mitch McConnell Plaza. For years, this town ha...
12 Kesä 201918min
Elizabeth Warren Is Not Here to Charm You
Elizabeth Warren might be a different kind of presidential candidate. Is America ready for that? Guest: Dahlia Lithwick, Slate writer and host of the Amicus podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
11 Kesä 201922min
