The Docket: The Law Defers To Police During Traffic Stops
The Docket is a new ongoing series from The NPR Politics Podcast where we examine the backstory of the laws that impact our daily life. Traffic stops are a routine police practice, but with the rise i...
26 Mai 202116min
Biden Misses His Own Police Reform Deadline
During his first address to Congress, President Biden pushed for his party's police reform and racial justice package to be passed by May 25th, the first anniversary of George Floyd's murder by police...
25 Mai 202114min
After A $500B Haircut, WH Infrastructure Plan Isn't Attracting More Republicans
The White House dropped half a trillion dollars in spending from Biden's infrastructure and stimulus proposal in an ongoing show of "bipartisanship," but the cuts weren't to the levels or areas that w...
24 Mai 202114min
The Winners And Losers Of America's Economic Transformation
Alec MacGillis' book Fulfillment tells the story of America's three-decade long economic transformation through the lens of Amazon's rise to corporate dominance. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews t...
22 Mai 202116min
Weekly Roundup: May 21st
The left flank of the Democratic party has exerted a lot of influence over the Biden administration on issues like climate change and economic strain. Will progressive sway Biden on Israel, too? And c...
21 Mai 202129min
Are Expanded Unemployment Benefits Keeping People From Returning To Work?
Twenty-two Republican led states are planning to roll back expanded unemployment benefits, because they say the benefits are keeping people from returning to work. Progressives argue employers need to...
20 Mai 202114min
Supreme Court Will Consider Guns And Abortion Before 2022 Election
The court, a 6-to-3 conservative majority, has increasingly filled the legislative role abdicated by a dysfunctional Congress. And as Republican leadership balks at a commission to investigate the Jan...
19 Mai 202115min
Biden Won Georgia And Arizona. Why Are Their Democratic Senators So Different?
The states both have long histories of Republican control, but the two pairs of senators have taken remarkably different tactics in Congress. Arizona's Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema came to Washington...
18 Mai 202114min
