Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017
In 2012, a woman asked if the city of Charlottesville, Va., should consider removing a statue of a Confederate general from a local park. That question set off a chain of events that led to the deadly...
15 Aug 201720min
Monday, Aug. 14, 2017
Protests over a plan to remove a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Va., spun out of control, leading to clashes that left at least one person dead. President Trump condemned “hatred, bigotry an...
14 Aug 201722min
Friday, Aug 11, 2017
What happened when the country’s best known weight-loss company realized that people no longer wanted to talk about losing weight. Guest: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who wrote an article for The New York T...
11 Aug 201720min
Thursday, Aug 10, 2017
In 1999, President Bill Clinton sent an envoy to North Korea for a rare negotiation aimed at stopping the country’s nuclear development. That was the moment, the envoy says, when everything could have...
10 Aug 201722min
Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017
From his golf course in New Jersey on Tuesday, President Trump threatened North Korea “fire and fury” and warned that the country “best not make any more threats to the United States.” How should we i...
9 Aug 201718min
Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017
Why Vice President Mike Pence is denouncing New York Times reporting about his political future and publicly stating his allegiance to the president. And the stolen childhoods of young Syrians who end...
8 Aug 201721min
Monday, Aug. 7, 2017
As a teenager, Noura Jackson was convicted of killing her mother, and then spent nine years in prison. But from the start, prosecutors possessed a document that could have set her free. Why the omissi...
7 Aug 201724min
Friday, Aug. 4, 2017
In 2013, Abigail Fisher sued the University of Texas, saying she had been discriminated against for being white. Now, some students are suing Harvard, saying they were discriminated against for being ...
4 Aug 201722min
