1421 Episodes

  1. Adult sleepaway camp and the high cost of feeling like a kid again

    Published: 10/24/2025
  2. Will changes to the H-1B visa program preserve jobs for Americans?

    Published: 10/23/2025
  3. Why do US students continue to fall behind in reading and math?

    Published: 10/22/2025
  4. WNBA hits a new peak, but money is still a sticking point

    Published: 10/21/2025
  5. California Prop 50 voting underway. Will the decision neutralize Texas redistricting?

    Published: 10/20/2025
  6. John Bolton indicted

    Published: 10/17/2025
  7. SPECIAL | Is Trump's deployment of the National Guard about order or overreach?

    Published: 10/16/2025
  8. Voting Rights Act threatened in Supreme Court redistricting case

    Published: 10/16/2025
  9. SPECIAL | Why Americans are making homegrown GLP-1s

    Published: 10/15/2025
  10. Another Senate vote fails as the shutdown rolls on

    Published: 10/15/2025
  11. A triumphant Trump basks in Mideast praise

    Published: 10/14/2025
  12. All remaining living Israeli hostages released

    Published: 10/13/2025
  13. MrBeast is hugely successful on YouTube, but with ECU, not so much

    Published: 10/12/2025
  14. One family, seven hostages, and the end of a two-year nightmare

    Published: 10/11/2025
  15. New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted

    Published: 10/10/2025
  16. SPECIAL | Who should decide which books, if any, are banned?

    Published: 10/9/2025
  17. Hamas and Israel set to sign deal on ceasefire and hostage releases

    Published: 10/9/2025
  18. SPECIAL | The politics of shutdown

    Published: 10/8/2025
  19. Trump says some furloughed federal workers ‘don’t deserve’ back pay

    Published: 10/8/2025
  20. National Guard troops in limbo as Trump battles courts over deployments

    Published: 10/7/2025

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