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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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31:44

The invisible hand of Melania Trump

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2020/08/25

On the eve of Melania Trump’s big speech headlining the second night of the Republican National Convention, politics reporter Mary Jordan discusses the first lady’s reputation. Sarah Kaplan explains how genetic analysis of the coronavirus could help us map and control its spread. And Isabelle Khurshudyan on the mass demonstrations that have erupted in Belarus after a hotly contested presidential election.Read more:Melania Trump is about to give her biggest speech in four years. The Trump campaign

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30:20

In the words of Trump’s sister: ‘You can’t trust him’

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2020/08/24

Today on Post Reports, Michael Kranish explores the inner workings of the Trump family. Kevin Sieff looks at how work deemed essential led to one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in the United States. Plus, Robin Givhan hunts down the rare fashion brand beloved by the women of Trump’s world.Read more:In secretly recorded audio, President Trump’s sister says he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him.’For Guatemalans in Florida, essential work leads to a coronavirus outbreak.Chiara Boni, the

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30:49

Remote learning during a pandemic is hard

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2020/08/21

Today on Post Reports, a story from the Post’s podcast All Told: As schools across the country wrestle with the question of how to best return to teaching in the fall, the story of one class’s preparation for Advanced Placement exams reveals the highs and lows, successes and struggles, that distance learning brings with it.Read more:Education reporter Laura Meckler writes about the struggle to prepare for AP exams across the nation.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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32:51

What happened at UNC-Chapel Hill?

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2020/08/20

Nick Anderson talks about how the outbreak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill foreshadows how other higher education institutions are reacting to the coronavirus. Matt Viser describes Joe Biden’s decades-long fight for the Democratic nomination. And, Caroline Kitchener explains the debate over Susan B. Anthony’s views on abortion -- and why it matters. Read more:The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reopened the campus for in-person classes. A week later, those classes went

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31:26

How Howard University shaped Kamala Harris

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2020/08/19

Rosalind S. Helderman on the new Senate report that alleges close ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign team and Russia. Fashion critic Robin Givhan shares Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s journey to a historically Black university.Read more:What’s in the Senate’s ‘grave’ new Russia report?Sen. Kamala D. Harris’s Black identity blossomed at Howard University, according to fashion critic Robin Givhan.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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24:39

Women’s suffrage and the Black women left out

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2020/08/18

Today on Post Reports, Katie Mettler on the little known story about how the 19th Amendment was ratified. And historian Martha S. Jones on how Black women had to keep fighting for the right to vote after the 19th Amendment passed.Read more:A mother’s letter, a son’s choice and the little known story about the 19th Amendment’s ratification.Black women fought to get the right to vote long after White women earned it.The Lily: Meet the Americans who first advocated for women's right to voteSubscribe to

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21:50

Trump vs. the Postal Service

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2020/08/17

Ashley Parker traces President Trump’s obsession with the U.S. Postal Service. Freelance journalist Kayla Ruble talks about why young Black voters yearn for policy, not promises, from Sen. Kamala Harris. Plus, Dino Grandoni on the hunters and fishers asking Congress to deliver climate change solutions.Read more:Tracing Trump’s Postal Service obsession — from ‘loser’ to ‘scam’ to ‘rigged election’.A large portion of young Black voters in the U.S. aren’t entirely convinced Sen. Kamala Harris will be

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22:59

Ten bucks left, no place to go

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2020/08/14

Today on Post Reports, social issues reporter Kyle Swenson explains how America’s unemployment system is stretched to the brink by the pandemic. And reporter Sydney Page on one artist’s random acts of kindness, and what they mean to health-care heroes.Read more:Ten bucks left, no place to go: How the pandemic and a broken unemployment system are upending people’s lives.Health-care workers are opening their mailboxes and finding their own portraits.Subscribe to The Washington Post:

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24:25

What’s up with the Postal Service?

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2020/08/13

On Today’s Post Reports, Jacob Bogage explains how delays and a partisan battle over funding the U.S. Postal Service may affect the election. Jose A. Del Real reports on Latino voters in Arizona, who may hold the key for a Democratic win there. And, Sarah Kaplan with a climate solution for America’s hottest cities.Read more:Trump says the Postal Service needs money for mail-in voting but he’ll keep blocking funding.Latinos transformed Arizona. Do campaigns see them?How America’s hottest city will

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29:33

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the future for Democrats

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2020/08/12

Today on Post Reports, national political reporter Annie Linskey breaks down the reasons behind Joe Biden’s historic choice of Sen. Kamala D. Harris as his running mate. Sports columnist Sally Jenkins on why it takes courage to hit pause on college football. Sarah Dadouch reports on the shattered lives left behind after the blasts in Beirut last week — plus, the story of a doctor whose wedding video shoot accidentally captured the explosions and went viral.Read more:Inside Biden’s unusual VP pick

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28:00

More mail-in ballots, more problems?

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2020/08/11

Today on Post Reports, Elise Viebeck on the anxieties around voting by mail ahead of November. Phil Rucker explains how the White House failed to contain the coronavirus as the summer cases crept up. And Shibani Mahtani reports on the crackdown in Hong Kong.Read more:Anxieties about mail ballots were on full display in the latest round of primaries, highlighting worries for fall.The lost days of summer: How Trump fell short in containing the virus.Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under

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19:29

America’s eviction crisis

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2020/08/10

Today on Post Reports, Renae Merle reports on why the expiration of rent relief will trigger a wave of evictions in at-risk communities. Dino Grandoni explains the fight to keep the lights on in households across the country. And, Teddy Amenabar on how to read your coronavirus test results.Read more:Evictions are likely to skyrocket as jobs remain scarce. Black renters will be hard hit. And landlords are pushing back on a federal moratorium.Congress faces pressure as states lift electricity shut-off

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23:53

A new gentrification crisis

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2020/08/07

Today on Post Reports: Tracy Jan on how the pandemic is exacerbating the effects of gentrification in cities like Los Angeles. From Linah Mohammad and Hira Qureshi, how the Hulu series “Ramy” tackles taboos, and why it’s gotten criticism from the Muslim community. And Brittany Renee Mayes explains why Black-owned bookstores are seeing a boom in orders of anti-racist literature.Read more:Ethnic enclaves are struggling to fight gentrification during the pandemic.The Hulu show “Ramy” tackles taboos

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28:06

How negligence killed scores in Beirut

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2020/08/06

Today on Post Reports, Sarah Dadouch brings us on the ground in Beirut, and Liz Sly reports on how the massive explosion there has thrown the city into deeper crisis. Columnist Jerry Brewer ruminates on how sports won’t be sports in the time of covid-19. And a Black doctor on how his scrubs are a form of armor.Read more:Shock turns to anger as Beirut assesses damage inflicted by massive explosion.Sports used to be an escape from the world. Now, they’re a window into it.A Black doctor on why he wears

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27:37

The organ transplant aftershock

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2020/08/05

Early on in the pandemic, we solicited queries from Post Reports listeners about covid-19. We received all kinds of responses — about masks, social distancing, food safety, testing, symptoms. And we received an email from one listener, Charlotte Cudd of Jacksonville, Fla., who was curious about whether people who die of covid-19 can still become organ donors. On today’s episode, we seek to answer her question — and we ask a few of our own.Surgeons perform first known U.S. lung transplant for

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29:44

America’s vanishing economy

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2020/08/04

Heather Long on the economy’s decline, Madhulika Sikka talks to “Indian Matchmaking” creator Smirti Mundhra. Plus, the “Can He Do That?” podcast examines why we do polling.Read more: We’re in a recession. If Congress fails to act, a lot of damage could be permanent.Netflix’s new hit “Indian Matchmaking” misses the full story on arranged marriageHow America votes is inherently unpredictable. So why do polling?

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33:03

How the pandemic left America behind

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2020/08/03

As countries around the world are emerging from lockdowns and cautiously returning to life as normal, it’s beginning to feel like most of the world is showing up to a post-pandemic celebration party where Americans are not invited. On today’s “Post Reports,” we ask the question: Where did the U.S. go wrong? What’s it like in places where the curve has successfully been flattened? Which countries are still struggling with covid-19? And how has the American failure in pandemic response shifted the way

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23:44

Capital B for Black

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2020/07/31

In a newsroom, it’s rare that a question of whether to capitalize a word sparks intense discussion and debate. But in June, an issue of textual style became an urgent topic at The Washington Post: Should journalists begin capitalizing the word “Black” when used as a racial identifier? And if so … what does that mean for “White”? And “Brown”?“During my lifetime, this decision has come up a lot,” says Jesse Lewis, who leads The Post’s copy editing desk. “I was born in the ’50s, and at the time,

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34:00

Can police learn to de-escalate?

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2020/07/30

Police officers around the country are fielding an increasing number of mental-health calls. Hannah Dreier documents what it’s been like for one officer who recently completed his department’s de-escalation training. And, Michelle Boorstein reports on how gospel choirs are adapting to the pandemic’s socially distanced reality.Read more:Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A White police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled Black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones

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29:10

The attorney general’s defense

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2020/07/29

Amber Phillips recaps Attorney General William P. Barr’s combative testimony on Capitol Hill. Peter Whoriskey uncovers how Johnson & Johnson companies used a “super poppy” to make narcotics for America’s most abused opioid pills. Plus, Michael Andor Brodeur on the sound of the pandemic.Read more:Takeaways from Attorney General Barr’s contentious congressional hearingJohnson & Johnson companies used a ‘super poppy’ to make narcotics for popular opioid pillsMusic for the pandemicSubscribe to

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