
Episode 15: Mr. Speaker
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is quitting, not forced out by scandal or defeated for re-election, but quitting after only a li...
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In “Many Things Considered” one-time journalist and full-time political analyst Marc Johnson applies his passion for context to connect current politics with political history. What are the...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is quitting, not forced out by scandal or defeated for re-election, but quitting after only a li...

More than 40 years ago Congress undertook two major investigations into the nation’s intelligence agencies – the House investigation became...

Since the 2016 presidential election various groups that keep track of white supremacist political activity – the Southern Poverty Law Cente...

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The founders of the great American experiment so valued dissent that they wrote the idea into the First Amendment to the Constitution. But w...

Imagine Winston Churchill as a houseguest. Then imagine him as a houseguest at Christmas…in the White House…while the world is at war. In la...

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