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2327 episodes transcribedYesterday, we told the story of President Trump’s trade war with China. Today, our colleague speaks with two Americans who have been feeling the effec...
Years of multinational efforts have failed to get China to play by the international rules of trade. Now, President Trump has launched an all-out trad...
When we last spoke with Representative Rashida Tlaib, she had just been sworn in — and had fulfilled the fears of Democratic leaders by calling for th...
Iran is warning that it may resume production on its nuclear program, reviving a crisis that had been contained by the signing of the Iran nuclear dea...
Chris Hughes, a Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, has written an Op-Ed in The New York Times saying that Mr. Zuckerberg has...
The House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt after President Trump asserted executive privilege...
In October, The New York Times published an investigation into the tax returns of President Trump’s father, revealing the president’s past involvement...
In Part 2 of our series, we tell the story of an American citizen whose family members have been detained in Chinese re-education camps for Uighurs an...
Under President Xi Jinping, China is pioneering a new form of governance by surveillance. In the first of a two-part series, we look at how China test...
After mass protests and international pressure failed to unseat President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, it became clear that it would take defections f...
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General William Barr defended his handling of the Mueller report, saying he did not misre...
After a brutal 30-year reign, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan has been deposed by his own generals. The story of one of those generals and hi...
A bitter power struggle has broken out inside the nation’s pre-eminent gun rights group. We look at how the mere threat of a financial investigation p...
Before the 2020 census begins in the United States, a case has been fast-tracked to the nation’s highest court about who is counted and why. It has be...
The number of measles cases in the United States has risen to nearly 700 — the highest annual number recorded since 2000, when the disease was declare...
Navy SEAL commandos said they had seen their decorated platoon leader, Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, commit war crimes. They were warned...
A series of highly coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka has left more than 350 people dead. How did a small, obscure and underfinanced local group carry...
After two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets, regulators and lawmakers began asking whether competitive pressure may have led the company to miss safety r...
The most interesting figure in the Mueller report may be the man who was hired to protect President Trump, but turned out to be the most damaging witn...
Two years and 448 pages later, a redacted version of the Mueller report has been made public. Here’s what we’ve learned. Guests: Michael S. Schmidt an...
