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People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to so...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 26:10
Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 13:51
One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 17:45
A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are s...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 18:50
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...
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- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...
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- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and BIPOC media got right, and they're still missin...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 19:19
It’s hard to imagine a political event that was covered more intensively in real time than Trump’s two impeachments. But only now, 18 months after ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 01:05:45
UCLA political scientists Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch and Vanderbilt’s John Sides argue that political party identity has become increasing...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 01:02:52
On Tuesday, Leahy, who is retiring this year after representing Vermont in the Senate since 1975, released “The Road Taken,” an engrossing memoir t...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 36:05
The White House suddenly has a lot to brag about. And the president’s aides, led by chief of staff Ron Klain, are reaching deep into the 20th centu...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 25:05
This week the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 using the process known as budget reconciliation. The upside? No filibuster is allo...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 51:44
The biggest remaining obstacle for the Democrats is now Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who will continue to host Democratic and Repub...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 42:43
Here’s something about Washington, D.C. that even a lot of people who live here don’t know: Psychedelic mushrooms are basically legal. In 2020 vote...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 34:35
Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 40:25
George Gascón was elected district attorney of Los Angeles County in November 2020 with 54% of the vote.
“I won handsomely,” he reminisced Wednes...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 42:39
If documentary filmmaker Alex Holder’s memory is accurate, Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin just minutes after the news broke that...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 30:32
J. Michael Luttig is the former federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence that the VP had no authority to reject electors o...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 38:00
This week in the GOP primary for South Dakota’s at-large district, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) defeated a challenger from his right who claimed he ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 44:40
There’s at least a few people in the Democratic establishment who have hope for the midterms. They’re the redistricting experts, people like Kelly ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 26:24
Trump-backed candidates have lost recently in Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Idaho. The biggest caveat about how the lessons of other states...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 34:29
For this week’s episode of Playbook Deep Dive, we sat down with Jennifer Ellis at her cattle ranch in eastern Idaho to understand how the state’s G...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 29:50
This week on Playbook Deep Dive, POLITICO’s Peter Canellos talks with our own Josh Gerstein, who broke this week’s massive news that the Supreme Co...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 01:05:34
Congressman Ro Khanna is one of the most influential progressives inside the house democratic caucus. He represents California’s 17th district – a ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 33:15
