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Ralph Nader Diagnoses the Future of the Progressive Movement

President-Elect Donald Trump's victory in November was a huge win for the Republican Party. The party will take back the White House, hold the Senate and the House of Representatives and be in a...

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News Wrap: Kremlin wants to tear apart NATO, Mattis warns

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Tough talk on Russia today from the Trump nominees to run the Pentagon and the CIA. At their Senate confirmation hearings, both men took a harder line...

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Warren forbidden from speaking on Sessions’ nomination after breaking Senate...

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth WarrenWASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for quoting Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor.The Massachusetts Democrat ran...

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How Senator Warren Responded to Being Silenced

Hear Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren read the full text of Coretta Scott King's 1986 letter to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing Jeff Sessions' nomination for a federal judgeship.

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Silenced by the Senate, Elizabeth Warren explains why she opposes Jeff Sessions

Watch VideoThe post Silenced by the Senate, Elizabeth Warren explains why she opposes Jeff Sessions appeared first on PBS NewsHour.

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Warren ‘troubled’ by report of Wall Street-paid Obama speech

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks with the media following the Democratic policy luncheon in March on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo by REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein.WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen....

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At D.C. conference, Democrats look towards 2020, but can’t get past Trump

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference in Washington, D.C. Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters“Don’t settle for being pissed off,” Los Angeles Mayor...

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#AskTheMayor; Senator Warren's Vision; Amtrak's Explainer on the 'Summer of...

Coming up on today's show:Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.Elizabeth Warren, United States Senator (D-MA) and the author of This Fight...

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Senator Elizabeth Warren, Author Arundhati Roy,...

In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week:Senator Elizabeth Warren (First) | Author Arundhati Roy (Starts 20:32) | Amtrak's CEO on 'Summer of Hell' (Starts 48:30)

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Democrats give political donations from Harvey Weinstein away to charities

Producer Harvey Weinstein speaks at a ceremony in Hollywood in 2016. Photo by REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniWASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and potential 2020...

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Former Trump aide Steve Bannon had ties to Harvey Weinstein

White House Senior Advisor Steve Bannon attends a March roundtable discussion held by President Donald Trump with auto industry leaders in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. Photo by Jonathan...

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Nat'l Politics; Rebecca Traister on Sen. Warren; Plastic Straw Bans; Prodigy...

Coming up on today's show: Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, who writes the weekly online column, "Letter from Trump’s Washington," talks about the latest political news.Rebecca Traister,...

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Elizabeth Warren: 'Left, Female, and Furious'

Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and the forthcoming...

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Brian Lehrer Weekend: Traister on Warren, Trump's Economy, Ibtihaj Muhammad

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Rebecca Traister Profiles Elizabeth Warren (First) | Trump's Economy, So Far (Starts at 24:04) | Ibtihaj Muhammad (Starts at...

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Bloodlines

In using a genetic test to try to prove her Native ancestry, Senator Elizabeth Warren inadvertently stepped into a quagmire. This week, we examine the tensions around DNA and identity. Plus, after...

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By Blood, and Beyond Blood

One wonders if Senator Elizabeth Warren saw this coming. On Monday, the senator published DNA tests proving the existence of a distant Native American relative in her bloodline. Intended to defend her...

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New (and Old) Blood in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Race

Politico campaign reporter Daniel Strauss discusses the latest candidates to join the Democratic presidential primary, like Washington Governor Jay Inslee, plus the big names not running."One of the...

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Elizabeth Warren's Sprawling Progressive Platform

From calling for the end of the electoral college to universal childcare to breaking up Facebook, Elizabeth Warren has been churning out a progressive policy platform.    Alyssa Mastromonaco, former...

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Pot and Social Justice in NY and NJ; Governor Cuomo; Elizabeth Warren's...

 Coming up on today's show:As the New Jersey legislature gets ready to vote on recreational marijuana legalization, New York continues to work on it.  WNYC New Jersey reporter Karen Rouse and Amol...

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Breaking Down Elizabeth Warren's $1.25 Trillion Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

On Monday, 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren rolled out a plan to reduce student loan debt of up to $50,000 for millions of Americans.Her plan also includes free tuition for public colleges...

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Student Debt Debate; AG Letitia James on SCOTUS Arguments; Earth Week:...

Coming up on Today's Show:Julie Margetta Morgan, fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and Lindsey M. Burke, director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, debate the economic...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

When Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote “The Case for Reparations” for The Atlantic, in 2014, he didn’t expect the government to make reparations anytime soon. He told David Remnick that he had a more modest goal....

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Beto O’Rourke Struggles to Find His Place in the Democratic Presidential Field

Beto O’Rourke did not defeat Ted Cruz in the 2018 Texas race for the Senate, but his campaign made him a political celebrity. In March, when O’Rourke announced his candidacy for the Democratic...

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Will the Government Get Tough on Big Tech?

Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (which owns Google), and Facebook—known in the tech world as the Big Four—are among the largest and most profitable companies in the world, and they’ve been accustomed to the...

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Friday Morning Politics with Emily Bazelon

Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged:...

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Let’s call the whole thing off

President Trump got ready to attack Iran and then, at the last minute, called it off.

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Previewing the Debates with Elana Schor

2020 Democrats meet in Detroit for another round of debates, again across two nights to accommodate the large number of qualifying candidates. National politics reporter for The Associated PressElana...

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Moments from the Second Democratic Debates; Bike Safety; Anna Sale: What Does...

Coming up on today's show:Tara Golshan, VOX politics reporter covering Congress and the 2020 elections, and Brittany Shepherd, Yahoo News national politics reporter, help us understand the first night...

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Let’s call the whole thing off

Tensions with Iran escalated this week and then, Thursday evening, President Trump apparently signed off on airstrikes in Iran only to cancel them. According to reports and an interview the president...

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Candidate-By-Candidate: Warren and Sanders

Listeners who support individual candidates call to share what they are thinking of the 2020 race so far.Can’t call, but it boils down to:1. He has been the leader in dragging the D party left.2. He’s...

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Pregnancy Discrimination is Still Pervasive in the Workplace

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren spoke up this week about her experience with pregnancy discrimination. She says she lost a teaching job in the 1970s because she was visibly pregnant....

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Elizabeth Warren and the Revolution in Economics

Senator Elizabeth Warren has made a "wealth tax" one of the centerpieces of her presidential campaign. The plan was developed with the help of the economists Emmanuael Saez and Gabriel Zucman, part of...

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Medicare For All: Warren vs. Sanders

Adrianna McIntyre, health policy writer at the Incidental Economist and health policy researcher at Harvard, explains Senator Elizabeth Warren's healthcare plan and compares it to Senator Bernie...

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The Billionaires Bite Back

Are we in a "billionaire moment"? Three are running for president — if you can count Trump. Two progressive candidates are running on ambitious policies that would require hefty taxes on billionaires....

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The Different Campaign Styles Of Biden And Warren

Former Vice President Joe Biden didn't have any appearances before the public during his time in New York. But Elizabeth Warren did.

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In Iowa, the Democratic Candidates Respond to the Conflict with Iran

The New Yorker’s Eric Lach is in Iowa for the month leading up to the Democratic caucuses. Next week’s debate, in Des Moines, was likely going to focus on health care and other domestic issues core to...

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As the Impeachment Trial Begins, the Democratic Candidates Struggle to...

This week, Democratic Presidential candidates met for their final debate before the Iowa caucuses, a few weeks after Trump ordered the targeted killing of the Iranian military commander Qassam...

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Family Feud

A pre-debate news drop from CNN threatened the relative peace between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. On this week’s On the Media, why the feud is more distracting than illuminating. Plus, why...

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Warren, Sanders and the Question of Sexism

On Monday, CNN reported that, back in 2018, Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in a private conversation that he did not believe a woman could win the presidency. Sanders denies he said it; Warren...

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'May the Best Woman Win' 2020

Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member, talks about the board's decision to break with precedent and endorse two candidates, Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren, to be the Democratic...

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Eight Inescapable Words in the Democratic Primary

New Hampshire votes today. Bloomberg's massive ad-buys appear to be working, at least in Dixville Notch, which started voting at midnight into early this morning and where five voters wrote in the...

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Joan Walsh: "If You Like Her, Vote For Her"

As the Democratic primary candidates move out of the earlier, more homogeneously white nomination contest and into South Carolina and Nevada, some candidates — particularly Buttigieg and Klobuchar —...

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What Elizabeth Warren Means for the Future of Women in Politics

Last Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential bid. After a poor showing on Super Tuesday, Senator Warren became the latest contender to drop out, following Amy Klobuchar and Pete...

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Stocking Biden’s Campaign Cabinet

This is an unprecedented election year in a lot of ways, but that doesn't mean history can't be a good teacher. Today, we look at how Biden is squaring up against Trump for the election in November,...

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A Visit with Elvis Costello, Plus Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren

The largest of the swing states, Florida usually picks the winning candidate for President—by notoriously narrow margins. Dexter Filkins reports on the state of the race. Representative Alexandria...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren

At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew Marantz to talk about the Presidential race and how Joe Biden should lead...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren on the State of Our Democracy

At the 2020 New Yorker Festival, earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Elizabeth Warren joined Andrew Marantz to talk about the Presidential race, and how Joe Biden...

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Warren Boosts WFP In Existential Election Fight

The left-leaning Working Families Party is asking voters to do more than support the Democratic presidential ticket. The WFP wants people to cast a Biden Harris vote on their party line, and they're...

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Senator Elizabeth Warren on 'Persist'

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren joins us to discuss her new book, Persist.  

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'Crying in H-Mart,' Elizabeth Warren, 'In Bibi's Kitchen,' Cooking with Mom

A new memoir tackles grief, identity, and really good food. Writer and musician Michelle Zauner, known by the stage name Japanese Breakfast, joins us to discuss her memoir Crying in H-Mart, which...

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