What is the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King in the era of Trump? (Larry Hamm)
On April 4, 1968, the legacy of civil rights in America changed in an instant when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin’s bullet at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On this we...
4 Apr 201834min
Did President Trump favor Texas over Puerto Rico in disaster relief efforts? (Danny Vinik)
When President Donald Trump held a joint press conference with Gov. Ricardo Rossello of Puerto Rico at the White House in October, exactly one month after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico,...
28 Mar 201826min
How are the Parkland students changing the gun control debate? (Josh Horwitz)
On February 17, at a gun control rally held in front of the Broward County Courthouse, Stoneman Douglas senior Emma Gonzalez gave an impassioned plea for students to stand up and demand action for he...
21 Mar 201828min
Why can't we solve the water crisis in Puerto Rico? (Sarah Laskow)
Back in September, when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, 44 percent of local residents were left without safe drinking water. But according to Sarah Laskow, author of the Atlas Obscura article ...
14 Mar 201826min
Is DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen a White House pawn? (Jonathan Blitzer)
What does it mean to have someone in charge of the third largest government agency (with over 240,000 employees and a roster that includes the Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and t...
8 Mar 201826min
How has President Trump changed the political culture in the nation's capital? (Robert Costa)
President Trump had been in office for three months when he called Washington Post reporter Robert Costa on his cellphone to inform him that a Republican bill to overhaul the healthcare system was dea...
1 Mar 201822min
What can we learn from President Trump's 1st State of the Union address? (Ayesha Rascoe)
After Year One of a presidency that could be described in several ways, “uneventful” not among them, there was no shortage of material for President Trump to select from for his first State of the U...
1 Feb 201827min
Does the Women’s March marginalize women of color? (Taylyn Washington-Harmon)
It was the image of a pink pussy hat on the head of a Harriet Tubman statue in Harlem that set Taylyn Washington-Harmon off. Seeing the civil rights icon’s image coopted for a specific brand of moder...
25 Jan 201854min
