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Post Reports

The Washington Post

Post Reports is the daily podcast from The Washington Post. Unparalleled reporting. Expert insight. Clear analysis. Everything you’ve come to expect from the newsroom of The Post, for your ears. Martine Powers and Elahe Izadi are your hosts, asking the questions you didn’t know you wanted answered. Published weekdays around 5 p.m. Eastern time.

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26:05

Gaming Wall Street

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2021/01/28

How ordinary investors, spurred on by a Reddit message board, took on the big Wall Street funds and sent GameStop share prices soaring. Plus, how President Biden is using the pandemic to try to expand access to health coverage.Read more:Business reporter Hamza Shaban explains what you need to know about GameStop’s stock price chaos.On Thursday, President Biden signed two executive actions, one of which was designed to expand access to health insurance through the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid

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27:51

All the (former) president’s men

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2021/01/27

Why President Biden may not be able to fire some federal employees appointed during the Trump administration. The first Latino senator from California. And, what the new federal mask mandate means for you.Read more:Lisa Rein reports that while Biden is firing some top Trump holdovers, in some cases, his hands may be tied.California Gov. Newsom selects Alex Padilla to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate.How do Biden’s new mask orders work? Health reporter William Wan explains.If you value the

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24:09

The battle over reopening schools

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2021/01/26

The growing tensions between school systems and teachers unions. Plus, Biden's Cabinet may be “the most diverse in history,” but his pick for agriculture secretary has reignited criticism over the USDA’s treatment of Black farmers.Read more:Chicago teachers are deadlocked with the school district over their reopening plans, but Chicago is far from alone. Education reporter Perry Stein explains the growing tensions between teachers unions and school systems.On Tuesday, CDC researchers published a

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24:36

Whose Senate is it anyway?

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2021/01/25

A standoff in the Senate. How essential workers are faring almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic. And, why vaccine rollout has been so slow in France.Read more:When President Biden took office last week, he promised sweeping, bipartisan legislation to solve the pandemic, fix the economy and overhaul immigration. Just days later, the Senate ground to a halt, its members unable to agree on rules for how the evenly divided body should operate. Reporter Mike DeBonis unpacks the standstill.At the

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37:06

400,000 people are dead. Can Biden change course?

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2021/01/22

How President Biden plans to combat the pandemic in his first 100 days. Where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went wrong with testing, and what it cost us. And what the U.K. coronavirus variant means for you.Read more:Just ahead of President Biden’s inauguration, the United States reached a grim milestone — 400,000 people have died of the coronavirus, a quarter of them in the past month. Health policy reporter Amy Goldstein lays out the new administration’s plan for wrangling in the

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30:32

All-American terrorism

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2021/01/21

A wake-up call for federal law enforcement on domestic terrorism. How journalists who cover the White House are recalibrating post-Trump. And dogs return to the White House.Read more:National security reporter Shane Harris explains the soul-searching happening in federal law enforcement after Jan. 6, and how domestic terrorism might be handled in the United States.A conversation with Allison Michaels, host of the Post politics podcast “Can He Do That?” on the show’s pivot to the new

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27:15

The 46th president

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2021/01/20

An inauguration like no other. And how the White House residence staff say goodbye to one first family and hello to another.Read more:Joe Biden has been inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, calling for unity in a speech to a divided nation. White House reporter Sean Sullivan reports.Kamala D. Harris is the first woman, and the first woman of color, to become vice president. Producer Jordan-Marie Smith talks to Harris's Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sisters about how they’re

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24:06

Biden’s first days

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2021/01/19

Why the nation’s capital feels like a ghost town. What President-elect Joe Biden wants to get done on his first day in office. And why the Secret Service has been paying $3,000 a month for a bathroom.Read more:President-elect Joe Biden has long been eager to undo and reshape policies advanced by the Trump administration over the past four years. Come Wednesday, he’ll make liberal use of his executive powers to do it, Matt Viser reports.Peter Jamison was reporting on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s

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21:53

Tulsa, 100 years later

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2021/01/18

The plight of black entrepreneurs in Tulsa, nearly a century after one of the nation’s worst acts of racial violence.Read more:In 1921, a White mob descended on the Greenwood district of Tulsa, killing scores of African Americans, and looting and burning their businesses to the ground. The Tulsa massacre decimated Greenwood, a commercial hub once hailed as the height of Black enterprise.But as Tracy Jan reports, Black erasure in Tulsa is hardly a remnant of the past. Today, Black entrepreneurs in

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58:08

Four hours of insurrection

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2021/01/15

Today, we reconstruct the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 — hearing from the lawmakers, journalists and law enforcement officials who were there, and answering lingering questions about how things went so wrong.Read more:The four-hour insurrection: How a mob of Trump supporters tried to disrupt American democracy.Reporters Rebecca Tan, Marissa J. Lang, Rhonda Colvin, and photojournalist Bill O’Leary were all witnesses to the violence on Jan. 6. They share their harrowing accounts of what it

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35:16

A brief history of tear gas in America

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2021/01/14

Tear gas is a chemical weapon banned in war. So why do police departments still use it on civilians in the United States? Producer Linah Mohammad and reporter Devlin Barrett examine the history of tear gas and the ethical questions about its use.Read more:Over the summer, tear gas was deployed to disperse peaceful protesters outside of St. John’s Church near the White House before President Trump posed with a Bible in front of the church, raising questions about the use of the chemical agent by law

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28:20

Impeached, again

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2021/01/13

President Trump is impeached by the House — again.And, inside a California hospital overwhelmed by the pandemic.Read more:On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump for the second time, on the charge of incitement of insurrection. This time, someRepublicans supported the move, like Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Reporter MikeDeBonisreports on what it was like to be there today.And while we’ve all been transfixed by the attack on the Capitol and its fallout – there's still

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27:55

Who’s in charge of the GOP?

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2021/01/12

A widening rift in the Republican Party. What FBI officials knew about the siege of the Capitol, and when they knew it. And, why the February Vogue cover of Kamala Harris is causing a stir.Read more:Political reporter Michael Scherer explains how the Capitol riot is escalating a fight for the soul of the Republican Party, with pro-Trump conspiracy theorists on one side and the party establishment on the other.The Washington Post has learned that a day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI report

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28:18

The insurrection planned in plain sight

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2021/01/11

How tech companies are responding to the far-right extremism on their platforms. Why we should have seen the siege on the Capitol coming. And, a brief history of presidential pettiness.Read more:The planning for last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol happened largely in plain view, with chatters in far-right forums explicitly discussing how to storm the building, handcuff lawmakers with zip ties, and disrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election.Those planners, however, are starting to lose

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31:07

Trump’s ‘American Carnage’

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2021/01/08

Trump’s promise for a smooth transition of power might be too late, amid growing calls to remove him from office. After the attack on the Capitol, lawmakers seemed to come together — but will that last with a 50-50 Senate? And an update from Georgia.Read more:White House bureau chief Phil Rucker brings us behind the scenes of a week when President Trump incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol, and then, grudgingly, admitted his loss.With Democratic victories in Georgia’s runoff

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34:06

What happens after an insurrection?

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2021/01/07

The public fracturing of the Republican Party. Security failures at the Capitol. And, questions about why predominantly White rioters got kid-glove treatment from police.Read more:Lawmakers, rattled and angry, reconvened to certify election results after an angry pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. Seung Min Kim reports on the very public schism laid bare in the Republican Party.National security reporter Shane Harris on the massive failure of law enforcement to protect the building.Michael

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20:43

Two Americas collide

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2021/01/06

The U.S. Capitol has been breached by a pro-Trump mob during the process of confirming Joe Biden’s vistory in the presidential election. Meanwhile, another election in Georgia is wrapping up — with control of the Senate hanging in the balance.Read more:A violent mob has breached the U.S. Capitol, halting a congressional count of electoral votes. Follow live updates here.Results from the Senate runoffs in Georgia signal a Democratic flip in the state, and in the Senate. National reporter Cleve

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21:09

Can America’s vaccine rollout be fixed?

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2021/01/05

Why the vaccine rollout has been slower than expected in the United States. And, the political theater of counting electoral college votes.Read more:Reporters Isaac Stanley-Becker and Brittany Shammas explain why state and local health systems are struggling to roll out coronavirus vaccines, and what that means for people hoping to sign up.On Wednesday, Joe Biden will be one step closer to the presidency. Rosalind S. Helderman reports on what to expect during the congressional counting of electoral

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25:26

‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’

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2021/01/04

What President Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn his election defeat sounds like. And, a nursing home’s creative solution to physical isolation.Read more:Amy Gardner explains why Trump’s latest phone call to Georgia officials has legal scholars crying foul.And as the nation keeps a close eye on Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoff elections, it’s a good time to revisit Post Reports’ deep dive into the real — and perceived — voter suppression in the state.And, after months of isolation, a “hug room”

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62:52

Georgia on our minds

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2020/12/30

As the dust settled after the November election, it became clear that the balance of power in Washington would all hinge on two Senate runoffs in Georgia. Whether President-elect Joe Biden will be able to accomplish major parts of his agenda, whether Congress will remain gridlocked, whether there will be single party rule or a still divided government -- it all comes down to Georgia.Attention, money and volunteers have poured into the state. But how much do we really understand about Georgia’s

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