Utah’s Medicaid Battle
Voters during the 2018 midterms favored the expansion of Medicaid, but it’s being met with some pushback by conservative legislators. What can Utah’s Medicaid episode teach us about how health care fi...
19 Feb 201918min
A Cautionary Green New Deal Tale
The Green New Deal brought attention back to the idea of high-speed rail in America. This week California squandered it. What lessons should Americans be taking from the failed high-speed rail project...
15 Feb 201912min
Has Anything Changed Since Parkland?
After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, we saw a group of students speed through the stages of grief and go directly to action. One year later, have they made any lasting changes to the gun co...
14 Feb 201915min
Jeff Bezos’s Privacy Complexifier
On today’s show, hosts April Glaser and Will Oremus talk about the implications from last week’s bizarre, but also serious, showdown between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and American Media INC, the owner of ...
13 Feb 201926min
The Democratic Divide Over Israel
President Donald Trump called on Rep. Ilhan Omar to resign after her anti-Semitic remarks this past weekend. She has since apologized, but the episode revealed a bigger problem that is bound to keep r...
13 Feb 201915min
When a Border Wall Isn’t Enough
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12 Feb 201912min
How to Get Away With Highway Robbery
Reporters in South Carolina schlepped to all 46 courthouses in the state to document every civil asset forfeiture case in a three-year period. What they found was an impossibly flawed law that rewards...
11 Feb 201918min
How an Abortion Bill Started the Mess in Virginia
Virginia is in chaos as racist stunts and allegations of sexual assault threaten to upend the political careers of four top state officials. How did we get here? It all started with a debate over an a...
8 Feb 201913min
