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2097 episodes transcribedTwenty Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination have now made their case to American voters. We take a look at their visions for the fu...
Note: This episode contains detailed descriptions of an alleged sexual assault.The writer E. Jean Carroll came forward last week with explosive accusa...
Over the next two days, 20 Democrats will take the stage for the first debates of the 2020 presidential race. We look at the competing visions for Ame...
In the weeks since the Mueller report, nearly 80 House Democrats have called for impeaching the president. But with the 2020 campaign underway, the li...
A military crackdown in Sudan has left more than 100 pro-democracy protesters dead, just weeks after the military offered support in overthrowing the...
The Trump administration has been debating a military strike against Iran as tensions with the country escalate. Here’s how we got to this point. Gues...
With asylum requests at a record high, the Trump administration is telling migrants to wait in Mexico. We look at how that policy could fundamentally...
The president kicked off his re-election campaign on Tuesday with a rally in Orlando, Fla. We spoke with a colleague who was there. Guest: Maggie Habe...
A New York Times investigation found that the United States is actively infiltrating Russia’s electric power grid. We look at what that means for the...
In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands remain in the streets, even after city officials said they would suspend the contentious extradition bill that pro...
Across Europe, populists are saying that it’s not democracy they aim to discard, but liberalism. To end our series, we returned to Germany, the countr...
In Poland, a nationalist party has been in power for four years. We went to Warsaw, the capital, and Gdansk, the birthplace of a movement that brought...
In Italy, hard-right populists have moved from the fringes to become part of the national government. Now, the country is on the front lines of a nati...
President Emmanuel Macron of France had been viewed as the next leader of a liberal Europe. But when the Yellow Vest movement swept the country, prote...
The decades-long plan to stitch together countries and cultures into the European Union was ultimately blamed for two crises: mass migration and cripp...
The police identified a suspect in a double murder after combing through DNA profiles on a website designed to connect family members. We look at what...
A year after police used a genetic database to help identify a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, the same technique has been used to arrest doz...
Dr. Robert Grant developed a treatment — a daily pill known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP — that could stop the AIDS crisis. We look at why tha...
A criminal group has held computer systems for the city of Baltimore hostage for nearly a month — paralyzing everything from email to the real estate...
In a brief but prolific career, a young writer asked whether evangelical Christianity could change. In doing so, she changed it. Guests: Elizabeth Dia...
