How Black Americans Experience Patriotism
The U.S. is experiencing a reckoning over the fact that the promises of America are not fulfilled equally. Black Americans share how they experience patriotism ahead of the July Fourth celebration. Th...
3 Jul 202015min
US Added Jobs In June—But Now The Pandemic Is Getting Worse
The unemployment rate fell to 11.1%. But there are indications that the job growth has slowed recently amid a surge of new coronavirus infections. Follow our playlist, The NPR Politics Daily Workout.T...
2 Jul 202014min
Trump Remakes Federal Judiciary In His Image
In June, the Senate confirmed President Trump's 200th judge to the bench. With a dearth of legislative achievements to point to, reshaping the federal judiciary could be the president's most durable l...
1 Jul 202014min
Trump's Disapproval Climbs Alongside US Coronavirus Cases
Amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Joe Biden is using th...
30 Jun 202014min
Weekly Roundup: June 26th, 2020
At the first coronavirus taskforce briefing in months, Vice President Mike Pence reiterated that the White House was there to support states in their response to the pandemic and touted the administra...
26 Jun 202026min
Congress Probably Won't Agree On Police Reform
A day after Democrats blocked a Republican proposal in the Senate, they are set to pass a reform plan of their own in the House. Lawmakers appear pessimistic about the chances of compromise legislatio...
25 Jun 202014min
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Holding Steady
The United States isn't experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus—because the first wave never ended. While original hotspots of the outbreak, like New York and New Jersey, have seen declines, pop...
24 Jun 202014min
Who Will Kentucky Pick To Face Mitch McConnell?
Closely-watched congressional primaries in New York and Kentucky will test how well progressives fare in two very different parts of the country. And reporting from a Michigan suburb on how folks ther...
23 Jun 202014min
