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Covering Katrina: navigating New Orleans in the days after the storm
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans twenty years ago this week, leaving a trail of destruction across the city and the Gulf Coast. NPR journalists were…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
President Trump, entertainer-in-chief
Before he entered politics, most Americans knew Donald Trump as an entertainer.
As the host of the hit show “The Apprentice” he was catapulted to a n…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Gazans are starving. How did it get this bad?
The war in Gaza is approaching the 2 year mark. As it does, Israel continues to launch new attacks on a territory that is already in ruins. And the h…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Should the government be in the business of business?
What happens when the federal government owns part of a company?
That’s one of MANY questions about federal policy right now, as the Trump Administra…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Can Trump call the National Guard into Chicago too?
For over two weeks, members of the National Guard have been walking the streets of Washington, D.C. -- alongside federal law enforcement and local po…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
What a day in immigration court is like now
The Trump administration is deploying a new strategy to speed up deportations. Government lawyers are asking immigration judges to dismiss on-going c…
6 months ago
Bubbling questions about the limits of the AI revolution
OpenAI founder Sam Altman floated the idea of an AI bubble, an MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing and tech st…
6 months ago
High stakes diplomacy and canceled Halibut Olympia, insights from the Alaska Summit
Normally, foreign policy summits between world leaders involve painstaking planning and organization days and weeks in advance. The hectic and last m…
6 months ago
Famine is declared in Gaza. Will anything change?
The people of Northern Gaza are starving. That’s according to an official declaration by a United Nations-backed group of experts, who comprise the I…
6 months ago
It's not your imagination. Hurricanes are getting more severe.
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, leaving more than 1300 people dead and becoming the most expensive hurricane in histo…
6 months ago