'What Kind of Message Is That?': How Republicans See the Attack on the Capitol
Polling in the days since the storming of the Capitol paints a complex picture. While most Americans do not support the riot, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Trump bears respon...
19 Jan 202132min
The Sunday Read: 'The Valve Turners'
Most Americans treat climate change seriously but not literally — they accept the science, worry about forecasts but tell themselves that someone else will get serious about fixing the problem very so...
17 Jan 202145min
‘Rankly Unfit’: The View From a Republican Who Voted to Impeach
This episode contains strong language. Three days after being sworn into Congress, Representative Peter Meijer, Republican of Michigan, was sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives as pr...
15 Jan 202150min
Impeached, Again
“A clear and present danger.” Those were the words used by Nancy Pelosi to describe President Trump, and the main thrust of the Democrats’ arguments for impeachment on the House floor.While most House...
14 Jan 202134min
Is More Violence Coming?
After the attack on the Capitol, social media platforms sprang into action, deleting the accounts of agitators.Without a central place to congregate, groups have splintered off into other, darker corn...
13 Jan 202125min
A Swift Impeachment Plan
At the heart of the move to impeach President Trump is a relatively simple accusation: that he incited a violent insurrection against the government of the United States.We look at the efforts to puni...
12 Jan 202127min
A Pandemic Update: The Variant and the Vaccine Rollout
As 2020 drew to a close, a concerning development in the pandemic came out of Britain — a new variant of the coronavirus had been discovered that is significantly more transmissible. It has since been...
11 Jan 202131min
The Sunday Read: 'A Mother and Daughter at the End'
Without many predators or any prey, rhinos flourished for millions of years. Humans put an end to that, as we hunted them down and destroyed their habitat.No rhino, however, is doing worse than the no...
10 Jan 202154min
