Episodios

  • Analyzing the cost of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ & how it aligns with Project 2025

    Analyzing the cost of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ & how it aligns with Project 2025
    Jun 3 2025
    Let’s talk about that Big Beautiful Bill the House passed, which is now in the Senate’s hands. Political analysts say if you look at the bill closely, yes, it delivers on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda and cuts taxes. But they question at what cost. The answer is that the cost will be to the tune of lost health care for 8.6 million Americans through Medicaid or Obamacare subsidies. It raises a question that people are asking: Didn’t the Republicans wonder if those cuts would make life difficult for people who are aging, unemployed, working poor or disabled?
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    51 m
  • Did Biden deceive the Democratic Party, or were the party’s eyes closed to reality?

    Did Biden deceive the Democratic Party, or were the party’s eyes closed to reality?
    May 27 2025
    Some Democrats say it was a mistake to allow then-President Joe Biden to remain in the 2024 race for as long as they did. A new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, contains some bombshells and raises some fundamental questions that the Democrats must ask: Did Biden’s team deceive them, or did they deceive themselves? Were their eyes closed to reality? The bottom line is that the book paints a portrait of a president whose faculties, both physical and mental, were “diminished.” And Tapper and Thompson say aides and advisers hid that from the public.
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    32 m
  • How Pope Leo XIV’s global & domestic influence will be measured, scrutinized as he pledges to unify

    How Pope Leo XIV’s global & domestic influence will be measured, scrutinized as he pledges to unify
    May 21 2025
    Since the United States was founded in 1776, 17 popes have presided over the Catholic Church. Until May 8, 2025, none of the men who held the post in the Vatican had been from the United States. History was made that day when Robert Prevost emerged on the balcony and proclaimed to the thousands of people from around the world who had assembled below in St. Peter’s Square: “La pace sia con tutti voi.” Pope Leo XIV‘s first words were “Peace be with you all.” Prevost‘s election was stunning news because no one thought an American would or could become Pope. Yet, this son of Chicago‘s South Side won the majority vote of the conclave.
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    49 m
  • DeSantis’ political future in jeopardy? And a rollback on civil rights protections

    DeSantis’ political future in jeopardy? And a rollback on civil rights protections
    May 13 2025
    The political future for Ron and Casey DeSantis seems very precarious. Political analysts say it may even be in jeopardy. In fact, those analysts will tell you their more immediate present may also be in jeopardy. They hoped to establish a dynasty. Then, a scandal tied to Hope Florida surfaced. Claims to the future of the Republican party are very much in question in Florida and nationally. There are many Florida Republicans who were solidly in the couple’s corner not all that long ago, but they have turned on DeSantis. It has created roadblocks to his agenda.
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    56 m
  • Promises made, promises kept & promises languishing in Trump’s 1st 100 days of 2nd term

    Promises made, promises kept & promises languishing in Trump’s 1st 100 days of 2nd term
    May 6 2025
    April 29 marked 100 days in office for President Donald Trump. His second term in office has moved at a dizzying pace, with Trump enacting executive orders and policies with a fury. Intent on remaking the Executive Branch, he empowered Elon Musk to push aside civil servants and strike fear in the federal workforce. He launched the largest deportation program in U.S. history.
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    37 m
  • How the Supreme Court is grappling with limiting presidential powers

    How the Supreme Court is grappling with limiting presidential powers
    Apr 29 2025
    The U.S. Supreme Court is jumping headfirst into turbulent waters with issues that have become politically divisive. The 18th-century wartime authority to speed deportations known as the Alien Enemies Act is back in the high court’s hands. Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to employ the controversial authority, the issue was literally rocketed back to the justices in a short fuse appeal. The consequences are enormous. So what’s really at issue here?
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    31 m
  • Can Dems rebrand with new leaders, fresh ideas to regain lost Trump districts?

    Can Dems rebrand with new leaders, fresh ideas to regain lost Trump districts?
    Apr 23 2025
    Since last November’s election, the Democratic Party has been wrestling with several questions: How to bring about a leadership change? How to develop an effective message that resonates with the public? How to get districts that President Donald Trump won to rebrand with the mid-term elections on the horizon? On Capitol Hill, several younger freshmen senators are gaining prominence, and there are hints the party’s No. 2 leader may retire, although Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has not officially tipped his hand on re-election plans. Even so, there are several Democrats in the Prairie State exploring election campaigns to succeed Durbin.
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    52 m
  • Facts & law or politics? How the DOJ purge could change the legal landscape

    Facts & law or politics? How the DOJ purge could change the legal landscape
    Apr 16 2025
    Members of the legal community say that President Donald Trump’s “multi-pronged assault” on the Department of Justice, the nation’s major law firms, and the judiciary undermines central tenets of the U.S. justice system. And they don’t stop there. They say the damage will be generational and raises concerns about the judiciary’s independence. At the root of what’s going on is retribution.
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    41 m
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