What will become of the dreamers enrolled in DACA? (Camille Mackler)
Since taking office, President Donald Trump’s administration has been making aggressive moves to do eliminate President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, with Justice Depa...
18 Jan 201830min
Which of the President's decisions will have the most significant long-term effect? (Michael Grunwald)
President Trump is constantly making headlines about the latest Obama-era program he’s eliminating, the international agreements he is doing away with or whichever historical norms he’s choosing to ig...
11 Jan 201827min
How did President Trump structurally change the U.S. government in 2017? (Nick Tabor)
What happened in 2017? Depending on whom you talk to, President Donald Trump’s first year in office was an unprecedented success or a historic failure. But in what quantifiable ways has he changed lif...
4 Jan 201822min
How do you parody a president you consider a self-parody? (Kurt Andersen)
For the last TrumpWatch with Jesse Lent of 2017, we decided to revisit one of our favorite interviews--Jesse’s conversation with Kurt Andersen, the host of the Peabody Award-winning public radio progr...
28 Des 201726min
What happens now that the FCC killed net neutrality rules? (Brian Fung)
On Thursday, the FCC voted to approve Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to eliminate the so-called net neutrality rules preventing Internet service providers from speeding up access to some websites while slow...
21 Des 201725min
How is Trump's immigration policy affecting the justice system? (Lauren Herman)
Earlier this month, the New Jersey chapter of the immigrant advocacy nonprofit Make The Road released a study entitled “ICE in the New Jersey Courts." The study found that since Donald Trump has beco...
14 Des 201725min
What will the Republican tax bill mean for the rest of us? (David Cay Johnston)
Last Saturday in the early morning hours, Senate Republicans passed a bill containing the most substantial changes to the US tax code in several decades with a 51-49 vote almost entirely along party l...
7 Des 201727min
What would the end of net neutrality mean for America? (Tiffany Hsu)
Last week, Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai submitted a proposal to dismantle the net neutrality rules put in place by the Obama administration. In her Nov. 22 article “F.C.C. Plan...
30 Nov 201728min
