Now that the Democrats have taken back the House, their plan is to govern on a message of unity heading into 2020. A small group of new, progressive lawmakers threatens to upend that plan. Meet one of them.
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🎧 The Daily: A Rift Over Power and Privilege in the Women’s March | New York Times
How tensions in the leadership of the protest movement burst into the open.
🎧 The Daily: A Republican Congressman From Texas Who Opposes the Wall | New York Times
Representative Will Hurd’s district runs along the southwestern border. His vision for border security is starkly different from the president’s.
🎧 The Daily: William Barr Under Oath | New York Times
We look at how President Trump’s nominee for attorney general navigated the first day of his confirmation hearings.
🎧 The Daily: Trump’s Pick for Attorney General | New York Times
We look at whether the changing of the guard at the Justice Department could also alter its often-acrimonious relationship with the president.
🎧 The Daily: Dispatches From the Border, Part 1 | New York Times
We joined our colleagues as they set out on a trip of nearly 2,000 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border.
🎧 The Daily: What a Border Sheriff Thinks About the Wall | New York Times
A sheriff in Arizona tells us how President Trump’s immigration policies have played out in his county, and why his interpretation of the president’s message has changed.
🎧 The Daily: The Republicans’ Shutdown Strategy | New York Times
As the shutdown drags into its 20th day, both President Trump and Democratic leaders appear to be doubling down.
🎧 The Daily: Trump’s Prime-Time Address | New York Times
The president made a televised appeal to the nation for a border wall, but Democrats showed no signs of giving in.
🎧 The Daily: Is There a Crisis at the Border? | New York Times
President Trump says there’s a problem, but it may be one of his own making.
🎧 The Daily: Trump’s Plan to Withdraw Troops From Syria | New York Times
The president’s abrupt order may have raised important questions about the future of American wars, but it stymied others.
🎧 The Daily: Day 1 of a Democratic Majority | New York Times
As the 116th Congress was gaveled in, Nancy Pelosi took her place at the helm of the most diverse House in history.
🎧 The Daily: Chuck Schumer on the Wall, the Shutdown and the Era of Divided Government | New York Times
On the eve of a new Congress, the Senate minority leader sat down with “The Daily” to discuss his hopes — and his strategy for getting things done — before the next election rolls around.
🎧 The Daily: White, Evangelical and Worried About Trump | New York Times
Within a voting base that remains deeply conservative, some women have found the president’s policies to be in fundamental conflict with their faith.
Nice that people are realizing what it is that they actually stand for and then stand up for it. Too often it’s easy to follow along with the herd.
It was fairly interesting to listen to this daughter speak with her father about politics and how resistant and reticent he was to her position. Sadly he didn’t come back with much against her argument but “because…”
🎧 How Quickly We Forget | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Presidential eulogizing, special counsel speculation, immigration coverage, and forgotten Hanukkah history.
The death of George H.W. Bush brought us a week’s worth of ceremony, eulogy and wall-to-wall coverage. This week, a look at the choices journalists made when they set out to memorialize the president. And, immigration stories in our media focus on the U.S.–Mexico border — but what about immigration elsewhere in Latin America? Is there a journalistic solution to the scale of global immigration? Plus, a baseball metaphor and a bit of forgotten Hanukkah history.
1. Anne Helen Petersen [@annehelen], senior culture writer at Buzzfeed, and David Greenberg [@republicofspin], historian at Rutgers University, on the history — and pitfalls — of presidential eulogies. Listen.
2. Bob on the speculation surrounding Robert Mueller's investigation. Listen.
3. Diego Salazar [@disalch], journalist, on the immigration crisis within Latin America. Listen.
4. Masha Gessen [@mashagessen], staff writer at The New Yorker, on her modest proposal for immigration coverage. Listen.
5. Rabbi James Ponet, Jewish chaplain emeritus at Yale University, on the historical origins of Hanukkah. Listen.
The ideas of rosier pictures of past presidents is an interesting one.
Masha Gessen’s story makes me wish we had many more Masha Gessens.
I particularly liked the story and history of Hanukkah given here. Definitely something to think about.