How will President Trump's actions affect the fight over the Keystone Pipeline? (Harold Frazier, Alleen Brown)
On April 10, President Trump signed two executive orders meant to speed up the construction of pipelines like the Keystone XL (KXL) and other methods of transporting oil and natural gas across border...
17 Apr 201925min
Why did the State Department classify an Iranian military unit as a terrorist group? (Carol Morello)
On Monday, White House officials reclassified the elite military force the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group. It is the first time in US history that a sitting president ha...
10 Apr 201925min
What will it mean for immigration activists if President Trump closes the southern border? (Fernando Garcia)
On Friday, President Trump stated in a series of tweets, “I will be closing the border, or large sections of the border, next week,” adding “we lose so much money with them, especially when you add ...
3 Apr 201925min
Is President Trump reversing sanctions on North Korea? (Jenny Town)
Last Friday, President Trump announced on Twitter that he was ordering the Treasury Department to withdraw new sanctions on North Korea. But as there were no “additional large-scale sanctions” on Nor...
27 Mar 201926min
Is President Trump's support from congressional Republicans fading? (Sheryl Gay Stolberg)
For the past two years, Republicans lawmakers in Congress have given the President nearly unanimous support. Yet, according to Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael Shear’s March 14 New York Times article “...
20 Mar 201925min
Why are there fewer civil rights investigations by the Department of Justice than there have been in decades? (Rob Arthur)
With both President Trump and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously vowing to reduce Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations into areas like local law enforcement, few Americans would be...
13 Mar 201927min
What does President Trump's declaration of a national emergency mean for the country? (Amy B. Wang)
With 16 states, the ACLU, the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition all suing President Trump in at least four different lawsuits over his declaration of a national emergency over ...
21 Feb 201925min
Did billionaire Republican donors buy support for the 2017 tax overhaul? (Peter Cary)
According to a new Center for Public Integrity analysis, from the time the Republican tax plan was unveiled on November 2, 2017 until the end of the year, dozens of billionaires and millionaires gave ...
14 Feb 201925min
