CQ Budget: GOP friction over shutdown finale
Passage of a bill to end the record-breaking shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security exposed widening tensions between House and Senate Republicans. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley and Aris Folle...
4 Maj 23min
Political Theater: Claustrophobic paranoid thriller? Count us in, ‘PH-1’
Jason Dick talks with Mark Kassen, the director, writer and star of the new movie "PH-1," a contemporary political drama whose mix of mystery, social media and taut pacing make it a pretty good encaps...
4 Maj 21min
Equal Time: Do Black women have solutions to what’s ailing American democracy? By Mary C. Curtis
When Black women show up – as election workers, activists, advocates, voters – they make a difference. So, when they step forward, why do they so often meet resistance, not just from opponents, but al...
30 Apr 42min
Political Theater: A White House Correspondents Dinner like no other
Jason Dick talks with George Condon, long-time White House reporter, historian and a past president of the White House Correspondents Association, about Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner, p...
29 Apr 30min
Political Theater: ‘Shall I project a world?’ — ‘The Crying of Lot 49’ episode
Real estate magnates, secret societies, alternative means of communicating, psycheledic drugs used as therapy? It's not our world; it’s the world of Thomas Pynchon’s ”The Crying of Lot 49.”Jason Dick,...
23 Apr 51min
Political Theater: The numbers that define Congress
Jason Dick and Molly Reynolds discuss the Brookings Institution’s latest update to Vital Statistics on Congress, the recent resignations of two members of the House for alleged misconduct and whether ...
17 Apr 36min
CQ Budget: Reconciliation picks up, again
President Donald Trump has backed Senate Republicans' plan for two more reconciliation bills, the first of which would focus solely on immigration enforcement funding. CQ Roll Call's Aidan Quigley and...
13 Apr 23min
Equal Time: Mixing religion and politics in America. That isn’t new. What makes today different?
If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is certainly fading fast. The evidence? A Supreme Court willing to rule in favor of faith-based lawsuits; a Secretary of ...
2 Apr 45min
