Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Israel's changing story of an attack on rescue workers
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On March 23, the death toll in Gaza surpassed 50,000 people killed by Israeli fire in the war with H...
Maintaining stability is key to the economy. That's getting harder.
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to keep the economy stable? That is a question that Jerome Powell considers every ...
Pope Francis I has died. What happens now?
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday morning in Rome Cardinal Kevin Farrell Camerlengo or Cardinal Chamberlain of the Holy Roma...
Dismantling Democracy: Lessons from Hungary's Viktor Orban
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Viktor Orban is in his fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister of Hungary. In that time, he has di...
Behind two high-profile deportation cases, a legal crisis grows
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, two federal judges handling separate immigration cases escalated their attempts to get th...
Raising kids is costly; Tariffs will make it even more expensive
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to the cost of raising a child from infancy to the age of 17 in the United States – ...
Can the U.S. banish its citizens?
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration's move to send immigrants to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is th...
Did DOGE take sensitive labor data?
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency team, or DOGE, appears to be grabbing sensitiv...
Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized'
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine. It's...
Why one deportation case has legal scholars afraid for even U.S. citizens
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration admitted that it wrongfully deported a man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia.It ha...
Big law in Trump's crosshairs
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For weeks, President Trump has been targeting certain law firms with executive orders. Some have fou...
How Trump's immigration policy changes who gets arrested and detained
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During his second Presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to carry out the largest deportation pro...
Drowning in tariffs, American businesses try to stay afloat
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It's pretty rare for one person to do one thing that affects nearly every business in the United Sta...
Tariffs will boost prices a lot — here's how much
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After a week of market turmoil, President Trump announced he would reset his most extreme tariffs to...
What will it take to get measles under control?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It's been 25 years since measles was officially "eliminated" from the United States. That's a techni...
They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Billionaire Elon Musk told Fox News recently that falling birth rates keep him up at night. It's a d...
How Deportations Work
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Deportation is a complicated process — with lots of layers. As the Trump administration expands th...
The video game industry at a crossroads
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The video game industry is huge. Last year alone it generated an estimated $187 billion dollars in r...
A devastating earthquake brings more uncertainty to Myanmar
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The country of Myanmar has been in crisis for years. A civil war has been going on since 2021. And t...
Trump takes aim at trade deficits. Are they actually bad?
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Whatever you think of President Trump's tariffs, there's one point you have to concede: his interest...
Who loses when Trump cuts funding to universities?
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Eight-point-seven billion. Four-hundred million. One-hundred-seventy-five million. These are just so...
Trump is betting the economy on his tariff theory
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In President Donald Trump's telling, tariffs are the political equivalent of duct tape: you can use ...
South Korea admits to widespread adoption fraud. Here's one story
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Last week, South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that Korean adoption agencies wer...
AI and the Environment
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The AI boom has caused a huge surge in energy consumption, so how is the tech industry thinking abou...
Reporting on how America reduced the number of opioid deaths
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After reaching historic levels, fatal overdoses from opioids are dropping rapidly. Today we bring yo...
Why did Israel restart the war? One answer: Bezalel Smotrich.
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Bezalel Smotrich's views were once fringe in Israel. He's an ultranationalist West Bank settler, who...
The Southeastern U.S. faces a future with more wildfires
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Six months ago, Southern Appalachia was devastated by Hurricane Helene.Now, after a dry spell and a ...
Campus protesters have faced deportation threats before
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In January of 1987, Michel Shehadeh, a Palestinian man who'd lawfully immigrated to the U.S. as a te...
The fallout from the Signal breach begins
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 24 hours since a bombshell Atlantic article, senators have grilled Trump administration intel...
Trump targets Big Law, and Big Law appears intimidated
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For weeks, President Trump has been issuing executive orders and memos that levy or threaten sanctio...
How an obscure legal theory shaped the immunity decision and Trump's second term
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the president has "absolute immunity from cri...
On the road in Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Greenland is a lot more than an object of Donald Trump's territorial ambitions. It's a place whose ...
The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Representatives from Russia and Ukraine will be in meetings to try to hammer out details of a ceasef...
Farming is uncertain — a trade war makes it more so
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Farmers already worry about things like crop prices, the cost of farm supplies and extreme weather.N...
Trump is taking a hammer to traditional pillars of soft power
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The argument for international aid is in part a moral one, but it's also been about U.S. interests. ...
Measles is spreading. Are you safe?
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Measles continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico. About 300 cases have been reported, since ...
Is Trump defying the courts?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"Oopsie, too late. "That post on X from the President of El Salvador got retweeted by Secretary of S...
Never give up - one Gaza boy's story of trying to survive in Gaza
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nearly 40, 000.That's the United Nations estimate for the number of children who have been killed or...
Trump says the economy is in 'transition.' What comes after?
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"A little disturbance," "a period of transition," "a detox period." These are all phrases that Presi...
Over a dozen lawsuits to stop DOGE data access are betting on a 1974 law
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been trying to access the massive amounts of A...
The Trump administration's attacks on oversight of executive power
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Trump administration continues to fire, shut down or defund independent elements of the federal ...
Fentanyl deaths are plunging, but it's just the first step
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The deadliest phase of the U.S. fentanyl crisis appears to be over. That's according to new research...
Republicans say Medicaid is safe. But budget math says otherwise
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
House Republicans have to get their spending bill passed by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. T...
Riding 'La Bestia' with migrants in Mexico
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Many migrants in Mexico journey north to the U.S. border by riding on top of freight trains. It's a ...
Marco Rubio pivots to America First diplomacy
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It's been a little more than a week since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President...
When it comes to the economy, it's all about uncertainty
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Like a lot of economists, Mark Zandi, with Moody's Analytics, thinks President Trump's across-the-bo...
Can democrats find their way out of the wilderness?
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A hundred minutes — that's how long President Trump had the floor — literally — last night.A h...
How Trump's foreign policy is reshaping the world order
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After the Trump-Zelenskyy blow-up on Friday, European leaders held emergency talks in London to put ...
When it comes to harassment, are federal judges above the law?
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
People who work for the federal court system don't have the same kinds of job protections that most ...
The political power of the pope
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Unlike any other religious leader around the world, the leader of the world's one billion Catholics ...
An immigration lawyer on Trump's first month
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Tuesday, President Trump will address Congress and the nation in a major speech, where he'll sum ...
Former DOGE employee: work could 'cross extreme ethical and legal lines'
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Tuesday, 21 DOGE employees resigned. NPR spoke to one of them who says she felt the new administr...
Is there a deal to end Russia's war with Ukraine?
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet President Donald Trump at th...
The view from Greenland: 'We don't want to be Americans'
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Trump's calls for the U.S. to take over Greenland have sparked alarm and outrage.Denmark, ...
Are Trump's military picks based on merit or loyalty?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On Friday, Donald Trump fired Chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff CQ Brown, along with several ot...
Trump's tariffs and rhetoric strain historic Windsor-Detroit friendship
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Donald Trump's tariffs and comments about turning Canada into the 51st state have tested U...
What happens if the Education Department is abolished?
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"The Department of Education is a big con job." That's just one of the things President Trump has sa...
The fate of Ukraine hangs in the balance as Trump sides with Russia
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Three yea...
Is the U.S. headed for autocracy?
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Is the United States headed toward autocracy?That's a question prompted by a steady stream of execut...
Will New York's mayor survive widening scandal?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, along withother top officials spent much of Tuesday weighing whether...
Why are Israel's deals to exchange hostages so lopsided?
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with ...
After weeks of chaos, the future is uncertain for thousands of federal workers
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of federal workers face uncertainty amid ...
Bonus Episode: The Aphasia Choir
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There are at least two million people in America who have thoughts and ideas they can't put into wor...
Ousted Kennedy Center president says artists must feel "welcome and safe"
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Donald Trump is now chairman of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, ...
In Panama economic needs threaten to erase a way of life
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Panama has been looking for solutions to a long-term problem. Every time a ship passes through the P...
Trump says the U.S. will 'own' Gaza — what that could mean for the Middle East
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Gaza Strip – ground zero of Israel's war with Hamas – is only about twice the size of Washin...
Are we in a constitutional crisis?
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Trump's blizzard of executive orders has run into a snowplow of legal challenges. There ar...
What DOGE could mean for Medicare and Medicaid?
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is quickly expanding its reach through the federal g...
Trump 2.0 or Project 2025?
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Project 2025, is a 900-plus page blueprint for a conservative President. It was unveiled in the spri...
Bonus Episode: "Margery," the medieval memoirist
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
For centuries, scholars only had one version of the life of Margery Kempe, an English mystic who liv...
Is there a Trump Doctrine for Foreign Policy?
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A lot of labels have been applied to Trump's foreign policy approach. America First, Isolationist, t...
The wider impact of DEI changes under the Trump administration
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As President Trump dismantles Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices at the federal level, o...
Trump's Plan for Gaza: American intervention and mass relocation
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President Trump floated two stunning ideas about Gaza on Tuesday. The first is he said the U.S. woul...
What does Elon Musk get out of remaking the government?
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Washington these days, Elon Musk seems to be everywhere.In the 15 days Donald Trump has been back...
The people and the waterway at the center of the Panama Canal
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Panama Canal has sat at the center of global trade for more than a century, connecting two ocean...
Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Most presidents want as much power as they can get. And it's not unusual to see them claim authority...
A pastor's sermons on social justice causes conflict among congregation
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Schools, corporations, even churches, are wrestling with how to approach issues of racial and social...
Investigators look for answers in worst U.S. airline crash in two decades
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What went wrong in the midair collision between a military helicopter and a passenger jet over Reaga...
What would RFK Jr. mean to HHS?
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced senators today in a contentious confirmation hearing to serve as Health ...
Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Country music singer Charley Crockett was born and raised in Texas, grew up in a single-wide trailer...
Can Susie Wiles keep Trump on track?
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Susie Wiles is doing something no woman has done before. She is the first in history to hold the pos...
Trump's dismantling of DEI
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former President Joe Biden championed DEI programs–initiatives aimed at diversity, equity inclusio...
Their home survived the fires, but there's still danger everywhere
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As evacuation orders are lifted, people in Los Angeles are returning to their homes--if their homes ...
When Oscar got it wrong
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do Babygirl, Singing in the Rain and Apocalypse Now have in common? They've all been overlooked...
Is there an American oligarchy?
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Donald Trump was sworn in on Monday, he was flanked by billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and M...
Breaking down the executive actions Trump is using to govern
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald J. Trump began taking decisive steps to implement his agenda hours after being swor...
Trump is back and ready to change America
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump returns to Washington newly empowered. The Republican party has remade itself in his im...
Joe Biden's complicated legacy
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When he ran for office in 2020, President Joe Biden vowed to turn the page on then president Donald ...
'The birds are back.' Resilience in the ruins of the Palisades fire
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will Rogers State Historic Park is a vast stretch of natural space in the Santa Monica Mountains. It...
Will we finally see an end to the war in Gaza?
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the time we publish this episode, Israel's government has yet to accept the terms of the long-neg...
America's place in the world during a second Trump term
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet picks are in full swing on Capitol Hill with a number of t...
Keeping America Safe: CIA Director Burns reflects
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a shelf in his office at CIA headquarters, Director Bill Burns keeps a tiny scaled model of a hou...
What happens when wildland fire reaches the city?
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Wildfire" is the word we tend to use when we talk about what Los Angeles has been dealing with the ...
On the way out: Transportation Sec. Buttigieg looks back on achievements, challenges
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From handling crises in the rail and airline industries to overseeing the distribution of billions o...
As longtime housing activist retires, the fight to end homelessness continues.
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While the debate over homeless policy plays out across the country, Project HOME has offered resourc...
'He saved our lives.' A former US hostage reflects on Carter's legacy
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jimmy Carter's four years in the White House were largely defined by an event that took place halfwa...
Wildfires displace thousands and ravage greater Los Angeles
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Extremely dry conditions coupled with high winds have led to an explosive wildfire situation in sout...
Wild weather spreads across the U.S.
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Washington, D.C., the federal government is closed – as are most of the schools in the area. Th...
The battle over the truth of January 6
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happened on January 6, 2021? There have been news reports, documentaries and witness testimonie...
Elon Musk wades into European politics
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Billionaire Elon Musk begins 2025 as one of the most influential people in the United States. He's d...