Thursday, Aug 31, 2017
“The problem starts for Houston almost the moment that it’s founded.” That’s how Richard Fausset, who covers the South for The New York Times, describes the founding of Houston, which was built on the...
31 Aug 201719min
Wednesday, Aug 30, 2017
As a poor, white teenager in Fort Smith, Ark., Abraham Davis never fit in. As a hidden minority there, the town’s Muslims were trying to make a home. Then their lives collided. Plus: the latest from H...
30 Aug 201731min
Tuesday, Aug 29, 2017
By Monday, the third straight day of flooding, Hurricane Harvey had left much of the region underwater, and the city of Houston looked like a sea dotted by islands. We hear from some people in the cit...
29 Aug 201720min
Monday, Aug 28, 2017
President Trump’s first pardon went to a wildly divisive sheriff from Arizona. So who is Joe Arpaio? And how do presidential pardons work? Guests: Fernanda Santos, the former Phoenix bureau chief of T...
28 Aug 201732min
Friday, Aug. 25, 2017
The feud between President Trump and Jeff Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, reveals a great deal about tensions in Washington. Guests: Jonathan Martin, a national political correspondent for T...
25 Aug 201720min
Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017
The United States recently noticed something unusual in North Korea’s weapons program: Its missiles started to work. Why? We discuss a surprising discovery. Guest: William J. Broad, who has reported o...
24 Aug 201717min
Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017
The president says “things are going to be different” in Afghanistan: no more “nation-building,” just killing terrorists. But a closer examination suggests this new strategy looks a lot like the strat...
23 Aug 201720min
Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017
Derek Black left the white nationalist movement that he had been poised to help lead, betraying his father, a former grand master of the Ku Klux Klan. Today, we talk with him about the events of the p...
22 Aug 201734min
