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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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27:58

Vote by mail? Harder than it sounds.

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2020/05/20

Joseph Marks describes the challenges of preparing for massive mail-in voting. Juliet Eilperin breaks down why people aren’t getting tested, in places that have plenty of tests. Plus, Min Joo Kim explains how a new outbreak in South Korea has pushed its LGBTQ community into the spotlight.Read more:Two primaries underscore dueling paths to holding elections during coronavirus pandemicAs coronavirus testing expands, a new problem arises: Not enough people are getting testedTracing South Korea’s latest

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27:14

Fighting covid-19: A tale of two countries

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2020/05/19

Linah Mohammad reflects on the strict lockdown in Jordan. Ishaan Tharoor unpacks how the “Swedish model” for battling coronavirus is not quite what it seems. Plus, Amanda Coletta explains why expanding your household’s bubble could be a headache.Read more:Jordan uses its army to put its capital, Amman, on lockdown.Sweden’s coronavirus strategy is not what it seems.Canadian provinces allow locked-down households to pair up – threatening hurt feelings all around.Subscribe to The Washington Post:

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24:52

What happens when the watchdog gets fired

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2020/05/18

Phil Rucker reports on Trump’s dismissal of the State Department’s inspector general. George Washington University’s Kathryn Newcomer on why these positions matter in overseeing the executive branch. Plus, Faiz Siddiqui investigates the pandemic-time deliveries of alcoholic beverages.Read more:The State Department inspector general fired by President Trump was looking into allegations that a staffer for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was performing domestic errands and chores.According to California

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19:16

What comes after reparations

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2020/05/15

In 1923, an all-white mob burned down the small mill town of Rosewood, Fla., killing at least six people and driving out black residents. Decades later, the survivors won reparations from Florida legislators, including a scholarship that allowed any Rosewood descendants to attend any of the state’s public universities. Robert Samuels reports on a conversation around the complicated legacy and effects of those reparations.Read more:How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims

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34:50

Choosing between a paycheck and your health

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2020/05/14

Today on Post Reports, Holly Bailey and Tony Romm report that as some states begin to reopen, people returning to work face life-or-death decisions. Aaron Davis explains how an ousted U.S. health official testifies that 2020 may be “the darkest winter in modern history.” And, author Mary Beard on what she’s reading during this pandemic — she recommends Rebecca Solnit’s “Recollections of My Nonexistence.”Read more:People returning to work in states that are beginning to ease social distancing

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28:46

Is dining out officially dead?

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2020/05/13

Today on Post Reports, investigative reporter Amy Brittain on the truth about Project Airbridge, a White House program set up to deliver badly needed personal protective equipment. Food reporter Laura Reiley explains the long road to recovery for restaurants. And Rachel Lerman says bartering is back in the time of the coronavirus.Read more:Trump promised that Project Airbridge would deliver essential supplies to medical workers, but a Post investigation reveals the emergency program is swathed in

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24:08

Bill Barr’s attempt to undo the Mueller investigation

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2020/05/12

Matt Zapotosky reports on the Justice Department’s recent moves to undercut the Mueller investigation. Aaron Gregg on the small-business loans that are going to large companies instead. And Monica Hesse on the power and popularity of Purell.Read more:Why the Justice Department moved to erase Michael Flynn’s guilty plea in the Russia investigation.Are Small Business Administration loans — part of coronavirus relief efforts — actually getting to small businesses?Delving into the history and mystery of

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27:40

What happened with Ahmaud Arbery’s case?

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2020/05/11

Cleve Wootson on why it took so long for the suspects to be charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s death. William Wan on the coronavirus’s toll on mental health. And Jacqueline Alemany on the young people left out of the virus relief efforts.Read more:It took 74 days for suspects to be charged in the death of a black jogger.The coronavirus pandemic is pushing America into a mental-health crisis.Young people are being left out of coronavirus economic relief efforts. That could be a big problem.Subscribe to The

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12:48

The sound of silence

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2020/05/09

What does the pandemic sound like? Mostly, silence, according to critic Robin Givhan.Read more:What does a pandemic sound like? For many of us at home, it’s a heartbreaking silence.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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30:59

‘You have all the jobs’: Motherhood during the pandemic

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2020/05/08

What being a working mom is like during a pandemic from Helena Andrews-Dyer. And how learning Bach could be an expression of grief from Philip Kennicott.Read more:This Mother’s Day, stories of women balancing careers and kids concede that thriving is out of reach. Surviving is enough in the time of the coronavirus.How one reporter found solace in Bach after losing his mother.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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29:15

Your money and the pandemic

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2020/05/07

Advice for managing your money, from personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary. What happens when people are too scared to seek medical care, from Frances Stead Sellers and Jessica Contrera. And what we wear when we’re stuck at home, and what it says about us, from fashion critic Robin Givhan.Read more:Your money and the pandemic: We answer your most pressing personal finance questions on the economic fallout of covid-19.Patients with heart attacks, strokes and even appendicitis vanish from

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22:54

A pandemic playbook for political campaigns

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2020/05/06

Michael Scherer describes how candidates have rewritten their campaigns during the pandemic. Jessica Contrera asks how we weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear. And Emily Heil on the anxiety-filled hellscape that is the grocery store.Read more:Political candidates – and not just the presidential ones – are reinventing how they campaign in the age of the pandemic.As the country moves to reopen, Americans weigh risk against necessity, longing and fear.Grocery shopping used to be a mundane

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29:09

The deaths that haven’t been counted

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2020/05/05

Emma Brown on which deaths count toward the covid-19 death toll. Jeff Stein reports on the $500 billion the Federal Reserve plans to lend big corporations with little restrictions. Plus, Reed Albergotti explores what happens when cannabis is deemed an essential service.Read more:U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of the pandemic, far more than previously known.The U.S. plans to lend $500 billion to large companies. It won’t require them to preserve jobs or limit executive pay.Weed is deemed

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23:51

The changing face of grief

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2020/05/04

How people are dealing with grief and loss during the pandemic. And Melinda Hunt, the director of Hart Island in New York explains the challenges of burying the city’s dead.Read more:The coronavirus is rewriting how we grieve. Unable to gather in person, people are finding new ways to mourn.An island in New York that has historically housed the city’s dead is being stretched by the coronavirus.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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19:50

The rise of sourdough bread baking

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2020/05/02

In the pandemic times, sourdough bread is king. Post Reports producer Reena Flores goes on a journey to find out why, with King Arthur Flour co-chief executive Karen Colberg and ancient bread maker Seamus Blackley.Read more:People are baking bread like crazy, and now we’re running out of flour and yeast.Now is the ideal time to learn to make sourdough bread. Here’s how.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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29:53

Two thousand hours of Louis Armstrong

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2020/05/01

Geoff Edgers on how the Louis Armstrong Museum is finding a new life online during the coronavirus pandemic -- and, just a warning, this segment contains explicit language. From The Post’s podcast “All Told,” how one blues musician is changing his act under self isolation. And Reena Flores on a new kind of romantic comedy on Netflix.Read more:Jazz legend Louis Armstrong is being honored in a new way at a nonprofit museum that’s going digital during the pandemic.Blues in self isolation, with Facebook

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27:31

What is Tara Reade accusing Joe Biden of?

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2020/04/30

Matt Viser on the allegations against the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Rick Noack on how nations that had a robust response to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to cautiously reopen.Read more:Nations around the world that were praised for their robust responses to the coronavirus pandemic are beginning to reopen.Allegations against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.If you love Post Reports, vote for us for a Webby

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27:20

What we know — and still don’t — about the coronavirus

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2020/04/29

Leonard Bernstein on what we know (and still don’t) about the coronavirus. Laura Meckler explains the changes schools might have to make to reopen in the fall. And Anna Fifield on Kim Jong Un, missing in action.Read more:What you need to know about the coronavirus.Alternating schedules. Lunch in the classroom. Students in masks. No football. School districts will have to change things up if they want to reopen in the fall.Where is North Korea’s leader?Vote for Post Reports in the Webby Awards:

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25:41

The pandemic at sea

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2020/04/28

Rosalind Helderman explains how the cruise industry carried the coronavirus around the globe. Greg Miller on the virus briefings Trump skipped. And, how young caregivers are impacted by social distancing, from Tara Bahrampour.Read more:Cruise ships kept sailing for weeks after the coronavirus was first detected, carrying the virus around the globe.President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited the coronavirus threat. He skipped them.Young caregivers are used to social isolation. Covid-19 is

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26:51

The mysterious clotting in covid-19 patients

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2020/04/27

Two doctors on the mysterious blood-clotting complication killing coronavirus patients. Heather Long explains why the economy won’t just bounce back in a “V-shaped” recovery. Plus, Lindsey Sitz on why washing your hands a lot doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.”Read more:Doctors say that a blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients.What is a W-shaped economic recovery? (Hint: It’s scary.)If you wash your hands a lot, it doesn’t mean you’re “so OCD.” Here’s what it’s really like to have

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