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2293 episodes transcribedThe adoption of electric cars has been hailed as an important step in curbing the use of fossil fuels and fighting climate change. There is a snag, ho...
With the midterm elections a few weeks away, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, forwarded a plan to save his party from the growing...
When President Biden canceled college debt last month, he left untouched the problem that created that debt: the soaring price of college.In the 1980s...
Over the weekend, Ukraine’s military stunned the world. After months of a kind of stalemate, its military took hundreds of miles of territory back fro...
The U.S. Open crowned its winners this weekend. But for a lot of fans, this year’s competition was less about who won, and more about a player who was...
The Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank in California, has in recent years become increasingly influential in Republican circles. In 2016, it...
The death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday brought to an end a remarkable reign that spanned seven decades, 15 prime ministers and 14 American presid...
As California watches the impact of rising temperatures devastate its environment with brutal heat waves and raging fires, the state is taking increas...
A counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces to try to drive Russian troops out of southern Ukraine has placed the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the big...
In November, Americans will head to the polls for the first nationwide election since the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. But what happens this fall won...
Today marks the unofficial start of the campaign for the midterm elections. This year’s midterms will be the first major referendum on the Biden era o...
An influx of Fentanyl, a highly lethal synthetic narcotic, has aggravated the opioid crisis in the United States and prompted communities to scramble...
Few leaders have had as profound an effect on their time as Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who died this week at 91.It was...
This episode contains detailed descriptions of a mass shooting that some listeners may find disturbing.A trial is underway in Parkland, Fla., to deter...
This episode contains discussions about suicide, self-harm and mental health issues.In decades past, the public health risks teenagers in the United S...
Since he left office, former President Donald J. Trump has been facing several investigations.They include the congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6 a...
Going to college can be a shock to most: Leaving the comfort of friends and family for a leap into the unknown, a fresh start. But what is the univers...
President Biden’s announcement this week that he would cancel chunks of student loan debt stands to have a major impact for many of the 45 million Ame...
Daria Dugina and her father, Aleksandr Dugin, have been major figures in the Russian propaganda landscape, advocating Russian imperialism and supporti...
Across industries and income brackets, a growing number of American workers are discovering that their productivity is being electronically monitored...
