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2025 5-15 Matters of Democracy "Big, Beautiful Bill", Elon, SCOTUS, Elections
Season 2025 Episode 521
House lawmakers are debating President Trump's tax cut legislation, the centerpiece of his economic agenda, aiming for approval by Thursday. The bill…
11 months, 1 week ago
2025 5-15 Matters of Democracy ICE Arrests, U.S. Debt-to-GDP Ratio and the "Big, Beautiful Bill"
Season 2025 Episode 520
ICE Arrests of Public Officials: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on May 9 outside an ICE detention center and charged with trespassing after att…
11 months, 1 week ago
2025 5-15 Matters of Democracy Biden, Trade, Deficit spending continues
Season 2025 Episode 519
A major development is the announcement of former President Joe Biden's diagnosis with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer that has metastasized …
11 months, 1 week ago
2025 5-15 Matters of Democracy SCOTUS, Senate, and Social Strife
Season 2025 Episode 516
Supreme Court Considers Scope of Nationwide Injunctions in Birthright Citizenship Case
Signs of Republican Resistance to Donald Trump in the Senate
"St…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 5-15 Matters of Democracy Voting Rights, Filibuster, Biden Book, Baseball, Economics
Season 2025 Episode 515
Weakening of the Voting Rights Act (VRA): A major theme is the continued erosion of the VRA. A decade ago, a key pre-clearance provision was gutted b…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 5-14 Matters of Democracy Habeas Corpus, DOJ, Gift plane, Medicaid cuts
Season 2025 Episode 514
Threat to Habeas Corpus. Stephen Miller and Donald Trump have publicly stated that the White House is "actively looking at" suspending the writ of ha…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 5-13 Matters of Democracy Tariffs, Drugs, Air Qatar, Afrikaner, DNC vice chair
Season 2025 Episode 513
The US and China have agreed to a temporary, 90-day rollback of recently imposed tariffs. American duties on Chinese imports will decrease from 145% …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 May 12 Matters of Democracy Corruption and Bribes? Mid-2025 Market and Economic Outlook
Season 2025 Episode 512
Allegations of Presidential Corruption, a proposed "donation" of an Air Force One plane from Qatar. The plane would be loaned to the federal governme…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 5-9 Matters of Democracy New Pope
Season 2025 Episode 509
The past few days have been marked by a mix of dramatic political maneuvering from the Trump administration, notable legal developments, and a signif…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
2025 Matters of Democracy, Canada, Tone Deaf, Medicaid cuts, Pentagon, Tax cuts and deficit
Season 2025 Episode 507
Trump's meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney highlights the strained relationship, particularly regarding tariffs.
Shift to "Gloom and Doo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago