Schools vs. governors on mask mandates
Florida’s COVID-19 rates are worse than they have ever been. The state now makes up almost 20 percent of the entire caseload in the country. Meanwhile in Texas, as of Tuesday there were just 368 ICU b...
13 Aug 202111min
What we know about kids and COVID now
Yesterday, California became the first state to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or get tested weekly for COVID. In other states, like Texas and Florida, school districts are fi...
12 Aug 202111min
$1 trillion infrastructure bill clears the Senate
Yesterday was dominated by political news, with the bipartisan win on infrastructure and Governor Andrew Cuomo's resignation. We get at why they matter with Axios' political team. Guests: Axios' Alayn...
11 Aug 202110min
Inside the GOP’s current playbook
It may seem like the 2022 midterms are far off, but issues like rising crime, border crossings and inflation are already starting to shape political discourse and early campaigns. Plus, the Taliban s...
10 Aug 202110min
Scientists' strongest stance yet on climate
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report on climate change this morning. It shows that warming is happening more quickly than we realized, and calls the connection...
9 Aug 202110min
The opioid crisis and HIV outbreaks in West Virginia
The CDC has called the HIV outbreak in Kanawha county the most concerning HIV outbreak in the entire U.S. associated with injection drug use. This week, the CDC issued a report on how to manage this o...
6 Aug 202111min
Left behind in Afghanistan
The Biden administration is close to meeting its accelerated deadline for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. But it's leaving behind thousands of translators and interpreters who are waiting for speci...
5 Aug 202111min
Officer trauma after January 6
Four officers who responded to the Capitol insurrection on January 6th have now died by suicide. The news of the most recent two deaths came this week. Officer Gunther Hashida, Officer Kyle DeFreytag,...
4 Aug 202111min
