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Modern constitutional law as we have known it ended Friday.
🎧 How to think about acceptance and treatment when discussing gender-affirming care for kids.
Commentary: Young people need a circle of support to help them deepen their understanding of their place in the world.
It's easy to find people who say gas prices will keep them from driving. They're on the roads.
How do presidents get in trouble? Monday’s Jan. 6 committee’s hearing on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election didn’t focus on that general question, but it did demonstrate something familiar to students of the presidency.
🎧 With alcohol-related deaths more than double that of guns, why isn't social media filled with debates about how to solve this problem?
🎧 With alcohol-related deaths more than double that of guns, why isn't social media filled with debates about how to solve this problem?
The author of "Under the Skin: Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation" discusses inequalities in medical treatment.
President Joe Biden’s job approval is lower than Barack Obama’s or Donald Trump’s at this point in their presidencies. Each of those predecessors saw his party lose control of the House of Representatives in his second year in office.
In this episode, Kelli Lemon and Michael Paul Williams talk with The New York Times Magazine and 1619 Project contributor Linda Villarosa about her new book "Under the Skin: Racism, Inequality, and the Health of a Nation." In the conversation and book, Villarosa shares troubling statistics that college-educated Black mothers are more likely to die, almost die, or lose their babies than white mothers who haven’t finished high school.
What can you say about the president's gallop to decarbonize the economy other than "giddyap"? Climate change is an existential threat to this country and world.
I’m not a “shut up and dribble” guy when it comes to athletes. Nor am I a “shut up and coach” guy.
🎧 Why do so many gun owners feel like their voices are being drowned out in the ongoing debate?
Commentary: There is often a deep irrationality to the public debate about guns that leaves reasonable voices on the sidelines.
As a reporter from the former capital of the Confederacy prepared to depart for the former hub of German Nazism, insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol.
It's not just Republican voters who are defending a few honest members of their party against right-wing assault. Democrats have pushed back left-wing jihads against their moderates. Note the failure to knock off a conservative Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, in a recent primary.
On the two year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, Kelli and Michael Paul catch up to talk about the civil unrest that took place in Richmond and across the country but also how so much of the world changed from that point. Since 2020, Confederate monuments have come down, conservatives h…
Imagine if you will, a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution that protected such liberties as the right to travel and move about. Technically, the Constitution doesn’t spell out these freedoms. So let’s codify them.
A number of so-called religious conservatives like to explain away national tragedies — be they natural or man-made — through the lens of God’s wrath, or at least indirect punishment for “sins.” Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich blamed same-sex marriage for the 2008 economic crash. Former…
The super attendance numbers for "Top Gun: Maverick" has theater owners flying at Mach 10. Sequel to the 1986 "Top Gun," the action picture scored the biggest opening ever for the Memorial Day weekend. A now-59-year-old Tom Cruise is back as the ace pilot, which may help account for another …
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🎧 The Great Resignation has meant a record number of people are changing jobs, but not all of them are happy at their new employer.
I've always wondered how vigorously gun-loving Americans would defend assault rifles if they were forced to see up close the damage the weapons inflict on human bodies.
The bad news for President Joe Biden is that his popularity has fallen, this past week, into dead last place. Of the 13 presidents during the polling era, none has been in worse shape at this point in his first term, almost 500 days into a presidency, than Biden’s 40.5% approval rating. That…
"Someday in a more enlightened future, we will have a memorial day commemorating school children lost to mass shootings," writes columnist Michael Paul Williams.
The mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas, coming just 10 days after the mass murder of shoppers in Buffalo, New York, moved former Sen. Bill Frist — who was the majority leader of a Republican Senate when President George W. Bush was in the White House — to issue a statement on guns: “We…
Marked by the memories of 19 students and 2 teachers killed at Robb Elementary, this Memorial Day in Uvalde, Texas hits a different tone. People from across the state some with a connection to the victims, some with a connection to the town, some simply with Uvalde in their heart gather to …
Think about those innocent children in Texas, and don't let them out of your mind.
In the aftermath of major mass shootings, politicians and pundits depict the killers as crazed monsters and blame mental illness as the fundamental cause. The same story has played out since the horrific massacre May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old allegedly mo…