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2042 episodes transcribedIn 2016, Lordstown, Ohio, helped deliver the presidency to Donald J. Trump, betting that he would fulfill his promise to save its auto industry. Our c...
In the contest to become the Democratic candidate for president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. is being asked to confront his record on race, including past pos...
President Trump made history over the weekend when he became the first sitting American president to step into North Korea. But the biggest impact of...
Federal courts have ruled that migrant children inside the United States must be housed in “safe and sanitary” accommodation. So what explains the con...
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, as the largest L.G.B.T.Q. Pride celebration in the world takes place in New York this weekend, some leaders of...
Twenty Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination have now made their case to American voters. We take a look at their visions for the fu...
Note: This episode contains detailed descriptions of an alleged sexual assault.The writer E. Jean Carroll came forward last week with explosive accusa...
Over the next two days, 20 Democrats will take the stage for the first debates of the 2020 presidential race. We look at the competing visions for Ame...
In the weeks since the Mueller report, nearly 80 House Democrats have called for impeaching the president. But with the 2020 campaign underway, the li...
A military crackdown in Sudan has left more than 100 pro-democracy protesters dead, just weeks after the military offered support in overthrowing the...
The Trump administration has been debating a military strike against Iran as tensions with the country escalate. Here’s how we got to this point. Gues...
With asylum requests at a record high, the Trump administration is telling migrants to wait in Mexico. We look at how that policy could fundamentally...
The president kicked off his re-election campaign on Tuesday with a rally in Orlando, Fla. We spoke with a colleague who was there. Guest: Maggie Habe...
A New York Times investigation found that the United States is actively infiltrating Russia’s electric power grid. We look at what that means for the...
In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands remain in the streets, even after city officials said they would suspend the contentious extradition bill that pro...
Across Europe, populists are saying that it’s not democracy they aim to discard, but liberalism. To end our series, we returned to Germany, the countr...
In Poland, a nationalist party has been in power for four years. We went to Warsaw, the capital, and Gdansk, the birthplace of a movement that brought...
In Italy, hard-right populists have moved from the fringes to become part of the national government. Now, the country is on the front lines of a nati...
President Emmanuel Macron of France had been viewed as the next leader of a liberal Europe. But when the Yellow Vest movement swept the country, prote...
The decades-long plan to stitch together countries and cultures into the European Union was ultimately blamed for two crises: mass migration and cripp...
