With Big Plans And Small Margins, Can Democrats Pull Off Their Agenda?
Progressives feel as though their job compromising on the $3.5 trillion dollar budget bill is done, while Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema say the package is still too big. Looming over it all, a ...
15 Sep 202114min
Here Are The Tough Questions Congress Asked About Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal
Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before both the House and the Senate this week, where he met with bipartisan frustration over the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan after the country's gover...
14 Sep 202114min
Should Athletes Be Activists? WNBA Star Nneka Ogwumike Says They Have To Be
The WBNA's political activism helped to reshape the political landscape in Washington. NPR's Franco Ordoñez and Ayesha Rascoe talked to Nneka Ogwumike, head of the league's players union, about its ro...
13 Sep 202117min
Listen: How The Country Remembered 9/11, Two Decades Later
There were remembrance ceremonies in New York City, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon. The reading of the victim's names — there were nearly 3,000 — took hours. Former President George W. Bush and Vic...
11 Sep 202115min
Weekly Roundup: September 10th
The number of new COVID cases hasn't been this high since before the vaccine was widely available. Aiming to curb the rise, President Biden has announced a series of expansive new policies covering th...
10 Sep 202128min
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Told Us He Isn't Retiring. Yet.
In a conversation with NPR's Nina Totenberg, Justice Breyer, 83, says he plans to retire from the High Court before he dies. He bemoaned the public's perception of Supreme Court Justices as politician...
9 Sep 202122min
There's A Chance That California Will Soon Have A Republican Governor
Voting ends Tuesday in California's recall election, where voters are deciding whether or not to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office. If he loses, Republican Larry Elder is the most likely...
8 Sep 202114min
Cutting Unemployment Aid Didn't Get Many Unemployed Americans Back To Work
Some twelve million Americans saw their expanded unemployment assistance expire Monday as the delta variant throttles the nation's economic recovery. Research from the states that halted the aid progr...
7 Sep 202114min
