The Sports Moment: Your passport to the Paris Olympics
There are a lot of questions heading into the Summer Olympics: Is Paris prepared to host the Games? Who are the star athletes this year? What exactly is a “horsey passport”? The Washington Post’s Ava ...
24 Jul 202424min
The Campaign Moment: The next steps for Democrats
This is a special episode of The Campaign Moment dedicated to answering the questions on everyone’s minds about what happens next now that Harris is the Democrats’ potential nominee.Senior political r...
23 Jul 202429min
Introducing, "The Sports Moment"
Ava Wallace, sports reporter at The Washington Post, is in France to report on the Summer Games — and eat a lot of croissants. Join her starting July 24, continuing through the entire run of the games...
23 Jul 20241min
Kamala Harris, Democrats' heir apparent
Yesterday, President Biden announced that he would no longer be running for reelection; he also endorsed Vice President Harris to replace him as the Democratic nominee for president in November’s elec...
22 Jul 202439min
President Biden steps aside
On Sunday afternoon, President Biden released a statement announcing that he would stand down from seeking reelection in the 2024 presidential race. The statement came after weeks of mounting pressure...
21 Jul 202417min
Deep Reads: Can a civics teacher persuade her students to believe in democracy?
So far, polling suggests that young voter turnout in 2024 may not match 2020’s rate. In April, only 41 percent of Black people 18 to 39 told a Washington Post-Ipsos poll that they were certain to vote...
20 Jul 202429min
The Campaign Moment: Trump's convention, Biden's crisis
Democrats flipped the typical convention script this week, dominating the news during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Following the attempted assassination of former president Donald ...
19 Jul 202426min
How the 1984 Olympics saved the Games
In the early 1980s, the Olympic Games were on the verge of dying out. After a string of disasters, the Games had become unaffordable, politically fraught, and faced serious security concerns. Then cam...
18 Jul 202445min
