Are Expanded Unemployment Benefits Keeping People From Returning To Work?
Twenty-two Republican led states are planning to roll back expanded unemployment benefits, because they say the benefits are keeping people from returning to work. Progressives argue employers need to...
20 Maj 202114min
Supreme Court Will Consider Guns And Abortion Before 2022 Election
The court, a 6-to-3 conservative majority, has increasingly filled the legislative role abdicated by a dysfunctional Congress. And as Republican leadership balks at a commission to investigate the Jan...
19 Maj 202115min
Biden Won Georgia And Arizona. Why Are Their Democratic Senators So Different?
The states both have long histories of Republican control, but the two pairs of senators have taken remarkably different tactics in Congress. Arizona's Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema came to Washington...
18 Maj 202114min
How Black And White Americans' Views On Race Differ
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll out Monday reveals how Americans view race after a white police officer was found guilty of George Floyd's murder.More Poll ResultsThis episode: demographics and cul...
17 Maj 202114min
Weekly Roundup: May 14th
Escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence presents a new hurdle for an administration that has tried to stay laser-focused on its own legislative agenda. And the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...
14 Maj 202128min
Fuel Squeeze And Inflation Marker Could Create Trouble For Biden—If They Last
The president said the country's fuel supply will return to normal soon and that there was no cause for a run on gas stations. And a consumer goods price spike could give Republicans an easy-to-explai...
13 Maj 202114min
House Republicans Oust Liz Cheney After Persistent Criticism of Donald Trump
She served as the Republican Conference Chair, the third-ranking leadership position among Republicans in the House. She intends to remain in Congress and says her criticism of Trump will continue.Thi...
12 Maj 202114min
Biden Wants $10 Billion To Put Young People To Work On Environmental Projects
The president's Civilian Climate Corps proposal is a reboot of a New Deal era program that employed young men to build trails, parks, and other nature projects. While it is hard to say what will get t...
11 Maj 202113min
