What a trade war with Canada means for U.S. consumers
After President Trump announced new tariffs on some Canadian goods, Canada's prime minister, Mark Carney, said his country would match them "dollar for dollar." We look at what's behind the escalation...
25 Aug 17min
How many noncitizens are on U.S. voter rolls?
The federal government claims more than 250,000 noncitizens are on voter rolls in four U.S. states. Officials in those states, though, expressed doubts about the accuracy of those claims and the feder...
24 Aug 17min
Roundup: carrier formations, calendars & corgis
U.S. foreign policy has teased a 'pivot to Asia' for more than a decade, but as the war with Iran continues, attention is shifting elsewhere. But, Trump's threats to curtail long-running military exer...
21 Aug 25min
Crime in the U.S. is down. Why?
Recent data from the FBI show violent crime has dropped over the last few years. President Trump is taking credit for the decline, but the reasons for the fall are a lot more complicated. We explain w...
20 Aug 16min
Takeaways from Tuesday's primaries
Democratic voters in many races faced choices between moderate and progressive candidates, while Republicans picked between those President Trump backed and those he didn't. We look at some of the rac...
19 Aug 19min
What Florida's primaries tell us about American voters
While it may not be the swing state it once was, the candidates and outcomes in Florida's primary elections provide some clues as to where U.S. politics are going in the future. We look at some of the...
18 Aug 22min
Why White House press secretaries still matter
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt leaves the post at the end of August. We look back at her tenure, why the job still has importance in the age of social media, and how the role of press se...
17 Aug 18min
Two planes, a president and a catering truck
When President Trump left the NATO summit in Turkey last month, he covertly switched planes because the government had received reports of an Iranian threat on Trump’s life. We discuss the significanc...
14 Aug 28min
