Is the gambling explosion ruining sports?
Last month the FBI arrested Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier for their involvement in two separate illegal gambling cases. Now star MLB pitchers Emm...
18 Nov 202526min
The conservative group courting young Black voters
When the conservative organization Blexit announced it was going to visit HBCU campuses this fall, it received backlash from students, administrators and alumni. But when it made a stop at Howard Univ...
18 Nov 202520min
How to make – and keep – friends
Friendship is vital for our health and happiness, but we don’t always prioritize it. The Optimist’s Maggie Penman goes on a journey to make new friends and learn why so many of us are craving connecti...
15 Nov 202524min
Trump's renewed Epstein problems, plus takeaways from the shutdown
The House Oversight Committee released a tranche of emails from the estate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein that give us more information about his relationship to President Donald Trump. Today ...
14 Nov 202530min
What's behind Trump's moves in Latin America?
For months, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has been fraught. President Donald Trump has targeted enemies in the region and propped up MAGA-friendly allies. We’ve now reac...
13 Nov 202525min
From al-Qaeda to the White House
It’s an improbable path, from al-Qaeda to the West Wing. The U.S. had once designated Ahmed al-Sharaa a terrorist. He fought U.S. forces in Iraq and was even imprisoned. Sharaa spent years in northwes...
12 Nov 202527min
Kathryn Bigelow on ‘A House of Dynamite’ and the nuclear ‘elephant in the room’
Kathryn Bigelow has been thinking about the threat of nuclear war ever since she was a kid. “I come from the era of duck and cover,” she says, “where when I was very little, we had to hide under the d...
11 Nov 202524min
Why some Democrats defected to end the shutdown
After weeks of holding out, a small group of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans over the weekend to start the process of reopening the government. Since the U.S. government closed its doors on No...
10 Nov 202518min
