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350 episodes transcribedWhat can and can't the president do, and how do we know? When the framers of the U.S. constitution left vague the powers of the executive branch they...
Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, a...
Since the beginning of the pandemic, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus have exploded. But conspiracy theories themselves are nothing new - in...
North Korea's famous for being a black box, one of the most secretive and authoritarian countries in the world. It has a nuclear stockpile. A history...
The Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation told his people to stay strong during this pandemic, and to remember how much they've endured over a long histo...
For nearly as long as there has been a United States there has been a census, it is in some ways how we know ourselves. And in every single census the...
It's been over a century since a self-described socialist was a viable candidate for President of the United States. And that first socialist candidat...
In the past few weeks Delhi has become the latest place in India convulsed with religious violence as Hindu mobs burned Muslim neighborhoods, mosques...
America in the run-up to the Revolutionary War wasn't just a period of dramatic political change, it was also a time of great religious and social ins...
Today, the border that divides Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is "soft", in most places you could almost forget that it's there. But for...
When the United States of America was founded, it was only a union of a small number of states. By the beginning of the 20th century, the United State...
There are more female candidates in this presidential campaign cycle than at any other time in American history. But women were running for the highes...
It's a longstanding fight in the U.S., whether people can opt out of vaccination if that means jeopardizing the greater public's health. In this episo...
