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2063 episodes transcribedThis episode contains strong language.A new battleground has emerged in American politics: school boards. In these meetings, parents increasingly enga...
This episode contains strong language.In March 2019, workers inside an Air Force combat operations center in Qatar watched as an American F-15 attack...
In 1980, when few Americans knew the meaning of toro and omakase, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, spoke to dozens of h...
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, described the current status of the pandemic in the United States as a “mixed bag” t...
This episode contains strong language.When the coronavirus hit the United States, the nation’s public health officials were in the front line, monitor...
Over the past year, a record 2,000 migrants from Africa have drowned trying to reach Spain.Many of these migrants make the journey in rickety vessels,...
In a bipartisan win for President Biden, Democrats and Republicans have passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. Now comes the difficult part — t...
The U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up to rule on an area of the law that it has been silent on for over a decade: the Second Amendment.The case under c...
Like many other Americans, Jamie Lauren Keiles, the author of this week’s Sunday Read, bought their first motorcycle during the coronavirus pandemic.“...
This episode contains strong language and scenes of violence.Last summer, as the country reeled from the murder of George Floyd, another Black man, Ja...
On a major night of elections across the United States on Tuesday, the Republican Glenn Youngkin claimed an unexpected victory over his Democratic opp...
In a giant conference hall in Glasgow, leaders from around the world have gathered for the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Climate Change...
Inflation in the United States is rising at its fastest rate so far this century. At 4 percent, according to one index, it is double the Federal Reser...
This episode contains strong language and scenes of violence. Over the past five years, police officers in the United States have killed more than 400...
Over the past decade, the waters around Cape Cod have become host to one of the densest seasonal concentrations of adult white sharks in the world. Ac...
President Biden and Democratic leaders say they have an agreement on a historic social spending bill that they have spent months negotiating. But libe...
In the coming days, a trial will begin to determine whether the fatal shooting of Amaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man, by two armed white men is consid...
As congressional Democrats dramatically scale back the most ambitious social spending bill since the 1960s, they’re placing much of the blame on moder...
When Democrats first set out to expand the social safety net, they envisioned a piece of legislation as transformational as what the party has achieve...
Every once in a while a company grows so big and messy that governments fear what would happen to the broader economy if it were to fail. In China, Ev...
