Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018
The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, took to the floor for eight hours last week to protest a spending bill that did not include protections for the young immigrants known as Dreamers. Now, she sa...
13 Feb 201817min
Monday, Feb. 12, 2018
At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, 169 plainly dressed athletes marched out in drab gray coats and bluejeans, competing not for a country but as “Olympic athletes from Russia.” What did R...
12 Feb 201825min
Friday, Feb. 9, 2018
Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico with great fury, but the government there said that just 64 people had been killed by the storm. The hundreds of bodies showing up at morgues across the island tol...
9 Feb 201829min
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018
Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 20, flooding neighborhoods and villages and cutting power to 3.4 million people. More than four months later, much of the island...
8 Feb 201819min
Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018
When Republicans handed out large tax cuts to corporations, most economists rejected lawmakers’ claims that the benefits would trickle down to working Americans. So why do many companies seem to be gi...
7 Feb 201821min
Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018
The Republican push to release a classified memo has brought attention to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and to the long battle to determine when national security concerns outweigh civil ...
6 Feb 201823min
Monday, Feb. 5, 2018
President Trump has claimed credit for a booming U.S. economy. But is it actually booming, and to what extent is he responsible? Guest: Peter S. Goodman, who writes about the economy for The New York ...
5 Feb 201821min
Friday, Feb. 2, 2018
Almost from the moment that he was appointed to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has been cast by environmentalists as an ideologue on a mission to destroy the very agency he run...
2 Feb 201831min
