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1333 episodes transcribedTrump signed a fairly inconsequential executive order yesterday that is supposed to incentivize police departments to adopt reforms. Across the countr...
Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ+ employees from workplace discrimination in a 6-3 ruling. This is the first...
Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a white officer in Atlanta this weekend, in another horrific instance of police violence. Atlanta’s police chie...
Police in Seattle abandoned their East Precinct building and ceded about six blocks of the city to protestors, who have now set up the Capitol Hill Au...
More than a third of states are seeing increases in Covid-19 cases in the last week. It’s hard to draw conclusions about what’s behind that trend—amon...
Georgia held its primary yesterday, and in a state where officials have been accused of voter suppression, the elections were rife with issues. Pollin...
Democrats in Congress introduced the Justice In Policing Act yesterday, which includes a ban on chokeholds, a ban on no-knock warrants, and makes it e...
Minneapolis City Council members have said they intend to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a community-based public safet...
Trump’s former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis published a scathing indictment of his presidency, and he’s been backed up by Republican Senator Lisa Murk...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has upgraded charges against George Floyd’s killer Derek Chauvin by adding a charge of second-degree felony m...
Trump’s threat to deploy military to states to help squash unrest would require him to use the Insurrection Act of 1807. We discuss that law’s history...
Protests against racial violence continued in well over 100 cities, leading local officials to continue to take drastic measures like curfews and call...
Protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd continued throughout the weekend. There were demonstrations in over 75 American cities, lea...
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at social media companies yesterday. We explain what's behind it and why legal experts don't think it'...
The planned site of the Republican National Convention this August is North Carolina, one of the states where coronavirus case numbers are currently o...
George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis this week, in an abusive and excessive show of force. We discuss his murder and the incident...
The US has imposed a ban on flights from Brazil because of a dangerous surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. This comes after Brazilian President Jair B...
China’s leaders are poised to impose a controversial new national security law in Hong Kong. The law would reportedly ban secession, subversion of sta...
The CDC has quietly posted a report with detailed suggestions about how to reopen. We dig into it and how the states might or might not use it.More th...
Contact tracing apps have been adopted in countries around the world to track the spread of COVID-19, but they’re not being used as much in the US. Am...
