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1884 episodes transcribedDemocratic impeachment managers conclude their opening arguments Friday night in the Senate Impeachment trial. The president's defense team begins the...
On the second day of their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial, Democratic managers honed their case. They hope to persuade a narrow ban...
This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey on Wednesday, January 22nd. As part of Drew...
As the third presidential impeachment trial in the country's history got underway, there was a lot that sounded familiar.House impeachment managers, l...
The first full day of the Trump impeachment trial has been dominated by partisan fighting over the rules of the proceedings.Senate Majority Leader Mit...
Every political rally can be distilled to a few elements: the music, the stump, and the call to action. But each candidate's rallies look a bit differ...
President Trump has announced his legal team for the Senate impeachment trial—and it includes ghosts of impeachment past. And a non-partisan governmen...
This week, President Trump inked deals in the two trade spats that have helped to define presidency: The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, an incremental up...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven Democratic members of Congress as the managers to argue the case for impeachment before the Senate."The emphasi...
Six Democratic presidential candidates debated on Tuesday night in Iowa, less than three weeks before the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses.It came...
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has suspended his presidential campaign, citing a lack of money to run a winning campaign.Also, Massachusetts Senator E...
This is a special episode, recorded in front of a live audience at the Harris Theater in Chicago, IL on Friday, January 10th. The cast breaks down eve...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to hand over articles of impeachment to the Senate next week and when the trial begins, Chief Justice John Robe...
The House is set to vote this evening on a resolution to limit President Trump's authority to strike Iran. President Trump is operating, like his rece...
No casualties were reported after an Iranian missile strike on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq on Tuesday night.On Wednesday morning, President Trum...
President Trump's decision to kill a top Iranian general has split the Democratic field along familiar ideological lines. It remains to be seen how mu...
Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi called last week's drone airstrike against Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani "provocative and disproportionate."Iran...
President Trump ordered a strike against a top Iranian military leader that seems likely to upset the balance between the Middle East and Washington,...
Julián Castro, who served as secretary of housing and urban development in the Obama administration , has ended his presidential campaign. Elements of...
In this special episode of The NPR Politics Podcast we sat down with New Hampshire Public Radio's political reporter Lauren Chooljian to talk about wh...
