Stimulus gridlock
August recess was supposed to start for Congress this week, but stimulus negotiations fell apart last week — prompting President Trump to circumvent Congress and attempt to extend programs put in plac...
10 Aug 202012min
Jim Tankersley on America's middle class pandemic
Every day that goes by without a new stimulus agreement is another day of worry for many in America's middle class, which was shrinking before the pandemic began. Dan digs into what the pandemic has d...
6 Aug 202011min
America’s next housing crisis
An early pandemic fear was that people would be unable to pay rent and that it would lead to a surge in homelessness. Lawmakers intervened, creating municipal, state-level and federal eviction morator...
5 Aug 202013min
The debate over COVID-19 liability protections
As stimulus negotiations drag on, Democrats and Republicans seem unable to agree on whether to include coronavirus-related liability protections for businesses, health facilities and schools — a decis...
4 Aug 202011min
White House adviser Peter Navarro talks TikTok
President Trump relaxed his threat to ban the popular social media app TikTok, giving Microsoft room to negotiate an acquisition from Chinese tech giant ByteDance. Dan is joined by Peter Navarro, Pres...
3 Aug 202014min
Ohio Secretary of State: Election results could take weeks
We are on track for a more complicated voting process this fall than in any past election of our lifetimes. There are concerns around safety in the middle of a pandemic, security, logistics, access an...
31 Jul 202014min
Deadspin "defector" on getting the band back together
Last year, nearly the entire editorial staff of media site Deadspin quit in protest over interference in their editorial decisions by management. Now, most of them have reunited to form a new company ...
30 Jul 202012min
Big Tech hearing chair on which companies should be broken up
The chief executives of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google testified about antitrust issues in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday. It was the highest-profile showdown to date in the ...
29 Jul 202014min
