The Real World: Ukraine
What A Day11 Nov 2019

The Real World: Ukraine

  • Public impeachment hearings begin this week. We tell you who’s taking the stand and how to tell them apart using some high-art, elevated cultural touchstones.
  • A public defender supported by the co-founders of Black Lives Matter was elected as San Francisco’s new DA. We talk to former public defender and politician Tiffany Cabán about what it means to be a prosecutor who runs on ending mass incarceration.
  • And in headlines: the women who inspired “Hidden Figures” are honored by Congress, Dion Waiters got too high, and Sesame Street celebrates 50 years of puppets and letters.

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Minding The Race Gap

Minding The Race Gap

States are trying different approaches to address coronavirus racial disparities, from forming a task force in Louisiana to opening new testing centers in New York City. We speak to Dr. Abdul El-Sayed...

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Viruses Are Taking Our Jobs

Viruses Are Taking Our Jobs

Another 6.6 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week, meaning that more than 16 million jobs have been lost in the last three weeks. That puts more pressure on Congress to sort out mor...

10 Apr 202016min

Exit Sandman

Exit Sandman

Senator Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, but his ideas may live on. Vice President Joe Biden is now the presumptive democratic presidential nominee. We look at how we got ...

9 Apr 202020min

Relief Reloaded with Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Relief Reloaded with Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Lawmakers are considering a second relief package to provide assistance to people who were left out of the last bill. Some also want to add a rent moratorium, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and more...

8 Apr 202015min

Wisconsin's Pandemic Primary

Wisconsin's Pandemic Primary

Wisconsin will be moving forward with in-person voting today, despite efforts to postpone the election for the sake of public health. We check in on what’s happening there and in other states set to v...

7 Apr 202017min

Locked Up During Lockdown

Locked Up During Lockdown

We interview Keri Blakinger, a reporter at The Marshall Project who covers prisons, on how jails and detention centers are managing release of inmates to prevent the spread of coronavirus, and how the...

6 Apr 202023min

The View From The ICU

The View From The ICU

We interview Dr. Shaoli Chaudhuri, a resident at Columbia Medical Center in Manhattan, about what she’s seeing in the Covid-19 epicenter as doctors treat a growing number of patients with the virus - ...

3 Apr 202021min

Repro Rights Are An Essential Service

Repro Rights Are An Essential Service

We talk to acting President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson about the state of reproductive rights during the pandemic, and the efforts several Republican-governed states have take...

2 Apr 202019min

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