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1571 episodes transcribedIt’s been nearly four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and sent the issue back to the states. Since then, more than a dozen stat...
Young voters are one of many groups that pushed Trump back into the White House in 2024. Some researchers saw this as a potentially massive realignme...
On Wednesday, a California jury found Meta and YouTube each liable for harming the well-being of a young user who had sued the two companies. The pla...
Ahead of the midterms, several Democrats are trying to seize on the affordability messaging that has been connecting with voters across the country b...
It’s been more than a month since the Department of Homeland Security shut down, and American airports are definitely feeling it. Now, President Dona...
The MAGA Right is at war over the role that Israel has in American foreign policy and the war with Iran. If you listen to Tucker Carlson or former co...
The Trump Administration’s crackdown on undocumented and documented immigrants hasn’t stopped — even for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood...
The Iran War is not very popular with Americans – and the Trump Administration seems to think it knows why: the media is being too mean about the Pre...
Joe Kent – someone you’ve probably never heard of – made huge news on Tuesday. He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center – until he...
This week, the Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Kri...
The war in Iran has essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transfer point, sending oil prices over $100 a barrel wit...
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. Remember Am...
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. According t...
In case you haven’t noticed, the American economy isn't doing so well right now. Oil prices have been on an absolute rollercoaster since the Iran war...
The Iran war is a little over a week old and the Trump administration has supplied more than a dozen explanations about why, exactly, it began. Confu...
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically change how Americans vote, and to make that happen he’s holding all other legislation hostage until Cong...
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem via a Truth Social post. Her tenure was marked by a p...
Three states – North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas – held primaries Tuesday. The turnout was massive, but so were the stakes, with the balance of pow...
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is sowing death and chaos, surely, but with ship traffic avoiding Iran’s shores, the war’s also threatening the global e...
Today, Trump officials brief all of Congress on what, exactly, the administration’s objectives are in Iran. Until now, the Trump administration has g...
