Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018
President Trump’s plan to build a “big, beautiful wall” between the United States and Mexico has become the ultimate symbol of a hard-line immigration policy. So why, as Congress voted to end a govern...
23 Jan 201822min
Monday, Jan. 22, 2018
Democrats forced the federal government to shut down by saying there could be no budget deal without a deal on the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Republicans have refused to e...
22 Jan 201818min
Friday, Jan. 19, 2018
The only Democrat in the room when President Trump railed against African immigrants as coming from “shithole countries” tells his side of the story. The ensuing fight over immigration has put the gov...
19 Jan 201822min
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018
America’s addiction crisis has become a lucrative business, and fortunes have been made in the growing rehab industry. But the death of a patient in California has raised questions about how to treat ...
18 Jan 201822min
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on border walls turned into a fight over the language President Trump used to describe Haiti and some African countries. Why does it matter so much to members of C...
17 Jan 201820min
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018
As South Korea prepares to host the Winter Olympics, it has been eager to get the North to participate. What is Seoul afraid will happen if it won’t? And, for 38 minutes on Saturday morning, people in...
16 Jan 201823min
Friday, Jan. 12, 2018
President Trump has demanded to know why the United States should welcome immigrants from “shithole countries.” His words have alarmed lawmakers and threatened an immigration deal. But they have also ...
12 Jan 201819min
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018
When President Trump announced that he would end the Obama-era program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, he gave Congress six months to make it law. Otherwise, many undocumented ...
11 Jan 201821min
