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1954 episodes transcribedThe former Antonin Scalia clerk currently serves on the federal bench after a fifteen-year stint as a law professor at Notre Dame. The Senate will now...
There was bipartisan backlash after Trump suggested that he would have to see the results before committing to a peaceful presidential transition. And...
It is hard to conceptualize 200,000 lives lost. Hundreds more die each day. And a vaccine, with partial efficacy and patchwork adoption, won't be enou...
As Republicans secure the votes to move forward on a Supreme Court nomination, government funding negotiations hit a snag. And Americans are strugglin...
"Most of them [the potential nominees] are young, and they've gone through the [nomination] process very recently," Trump said. He noted that one pers...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday. The Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from metastatic cancer of the pancr...
A steady presidential race remains steady: Joe Biden's lead is in the high single-digits nationally. But Trump's messaging tying Joe Biden to socialis...
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Congress that a widely-available vaccine probably won't be available until well into 2...
Joe Biden maintains a lead in key states Trump won in 2016, but the race remains tight in Florida. Arizona and Georgia are toss-ups, and Texas is pink...
Understanding the motivation of voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania is key to understand the 2016 coalition that allowed President Trump to notch a de...
After the weekend's rally, aimed at building support among Hispanic voters, President Trump spent Monday in California hearing about disaster response...
As wildfires rage across the west, activists are noting the campaign's relative silence on the issue of climate change. Natural disasters of all sorts...
The Department of Homeland Security official says in his complaint that he was ordered to halt reports that made the president "look bad." DHS and the...
President Trump was aware of the severity of the coronavirus in early February, telling Bob Woodward that it was much more severe than the flu. In pub...
Pressed on whether he was politicizing vaccine development by suggesting that a vaccine could come before election day (very unlikely), President Trum...
In this Labor Day episode of the podcast, we hear from voters in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Pennsylvania about how they're feeling about their options in No...
Isolated bursts of violence between protesters have left at least three Americans dead. But demonstrations across the country remain primarily peacefu...
Six million Americans have been diagnosed with coronavirus and more than 185 thousand have died. Cases nationally are trending downward, but the Midwe...
Republicans' internal divisions, and divisions with President Trump, made legislating nearly impossible during Trump's first term. There's little sign...
The president is in Kenosha, Wis., today, a city that has been rocked by protests after police shot a black man several times in the back a little ove...
