
Why Lynching Is Still Not A Federal Crime
Experts say the current fight over anti-lynching legislation reflects America’s racist history.
Experts say the current fight over anti-lynching legislation reflects America’s racist history.
Cook County is facing the largest budget deficit in nearly a decade, according to Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
Cate Cahan wasn’t just an editor. She was a mentor, a leader, a public radio doyenne – and even officiated WBEZ reporters’ weddings.
Amid a renewed spike in coronavirus cases, the number of voters disapproving of the job President Trump is doing is at an all-time high, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Joe Biden is using the pandemic to attack the president. And despite a narrow loss in the Kentucky Senate primary, the progressive wing of the Democratic party is amassing power in the halls of Congress.This episode: White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Fresh off a 60 Minutes appearance on the problems with antibody testing, the Democrat from Illinois talks police reform, COVID-19 and more.
A one-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were among the dead. “This can’t be who we are as a city,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Monday.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals, citing the Supreme Court’s adherence to precedent, to invalidate a Louisiana law that required doctors at clinics that perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Plus, lawmakers in both parties are asking for more information after press reports suggested that Russian operatives have paid Afghan insurgents to target U.S. forces. This episode: congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell correspondent Sarah McCammon, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, election security editor Phil Ewing, and White House correspondent Tamara Keith.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals, citing the court’s adherence to precedent, to invalidate a law that required abortion providers to have hospital admitting.
CPD speaks out about the violence from over the weekend, CPS votes to keep police in schools, and the region moves to Phase 4 of reopening.