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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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22:12

The child-care problem

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2020/06/30

How the lack of child care during the pandemic is hurting families and businesses, from Heather Long. Why women are more affected by this economic downturn, from Samantha Schmidt. And what it’s like to join Alcoholics Anonymous over Zoom, from Sarah Pulliam Bailey.Read more:The pandemic upended child care. It could be devastating for women.The pandemic’s effect on the economy is not like the “mancession” of 2007.Alcoholics Anonymous adjusts and adapts during the pandemic.Subscribe to The Washington

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29:19

A reprieve for abortion rights

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2020/06/29

Robert Barnes and Caroline Kitchener on a Supreme Court decision that upholds abortion rights. Lenny Bernstein on surging coronavirus infections in the United States. And, Mississippi votes to remove the Confederate symbol from its state flag.Read more:The Supreme Court strikes down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law that would have closed clinics.The Supreme Court just delivered a major victory for abortion rights. Providers say it’s hard to celebrate.Coronavirus deaths lag behind surging

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29:25

Policing the black imagination

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2020/06/26

Today on Post Reports, Chris Richards on how rapper Drakeo the Ruler dropped an urgent and timely album from jail. And Fredrick Kunkle on the history of germs, and how the discovery of pathogens changed the way we live.Read more:The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just recorded it from jail.The discovery of pathogens changed the way we function. Will covid-19 do the same?Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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20:23

Tamir Rice’s mother on the trauma of loss

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2020/06/25

In 2014, Tamir Rice was fatally shot by a police officer while playing with a toy gun. He was 12 years old. Video editor Taylor Turner speaks with his mother, Samaria Rice, on the trauma she still carries. And, Samantha Schmidt on why the decrease in reports of child abuse isn’t cause for celebration.Read more:WATCH: On Tamir Rice’s 18th birthday, his mother addresses PTSD and police brutality.With kids stuck at home, emergency doctors report more severe cases of child abuse.Subscribe to The

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30:38

The economics of Trump’s visa restrictions

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2020/06/24

On today’s Post Reports, Nick Miroff explains President Trump’s restrictions on foreign visas and why they are a long-awaited victory for immigration hardliners. Joseph Marks reports on how we can learn from recent primaries ahead of the general election in November. And sports columnist Jerry Brewer explains the deepening NASCAR drama.Read more:Trump’s new restrictions on foreign workers, explained.Reports of mail-in ballots and difficulty voting spell trouble for November.What we see in a flag or

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27:36

Times are changing. The president's message is not.

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2020/06/23

Today on Post Reports, Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker on how a week of defeat for President Trump could play out. Jerry Brewer explains how NASCAR has become front and center in discussions about systemic racism.Read more:President Trump rallies in red states to a sea of empty blue seats.NASCAR doubles down in support for Bubba Wallace, the only black driver in the major circuit, after a noose was found in his garage after the league bans Confederate flags at its events.Subscribe to The Washington

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30:15

How to develop a vaccine — quickly and ethically

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2020/06/22

Carolyn Johnson reports on the race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus and how it could pit countries against one another. Ben Guarino on why bioethicists are thinking hard about coronavirus vaccine testing. And Maura Judkis on why so many people are convinced that they had covid-19 already.Read more:The biggest challenge for a coronavirus vaccine could be getting countries to share.Volunteers are signing up to put their lives on the line for a coronavirus vaccine.Many are convinced that

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28:38

Why Americans don’t learn about Tulsa, or Juneteenth

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2020/06/19

Michele Norris on what happened in Tulsa — and why Americans don’t learn this history in school. Nicole Ellis on the history of Juneteenth. And Taylor Turner talks about her personal connection to the holiday.Read more:Opinion: The diabolical irony of Trump in Tulsa.Trump rally in Tulsa, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth was “almost blasphemous,” historian says.What Juneteenth tells us about the value of black life in America. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

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26:17

What’s next for the ‘dreamers’?

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2020/06/18

Robert Barnes reports on the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA. We hear from dreamers about what’s next and why their fight isn’t over. And Marc Fisher on the elderly people becoming radio DJs to connect with one another.Read more:Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.Coronavirus isolated them in their rooms. Now, old-age home residents reconnect by

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30:39

The NFL after George Floyd

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2020/06/17

Jerry Brewer on the NFL’s moment of reckoning over Black Lives Matter. Amber Phillips on the policing bill unveiled by the Senate GOP. And, Sarah Kaplan on the most famous skyscraper in New York going green.Read more:At the lowest moment of my life, I rediscovered sports’ greatest gift: Hope.Senate GOP unveils policing bill that would discourage, but not ban, tactics such as chokeholds and no-knock warrants.New York’s most famous skyscraper shrank its planet-warming emissions by 40 percent. Can the

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29:48

How BLM is challenging Big Tech

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2020/06/16

Geoffrey Fowler describes the questions Black Lives Matter is raising for Big Tech. Ben Golliver considers the future of professional sports. And Marisa Iati, on how one data scientist is pushing back against faulty coronavirus stats in Florida.Read more:Black Lives Matter could change facial recognition forever – if Big Tech doesn’t stand in the way.The NBA has a plan for the playoffs. But players and fans have questions.Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the

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25:48

SCOTUS rules in favor of LGBTQ workers

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2020/06/15

Robert Barnes walks through the Supreme Court decision that protects gay and transgender people in the workplace. Karla Adam explains why minority and immigrant doctors are feeling the brunt of the coronavirus burden in Britain. And Eugene Scott describes how it feels to be a Black journalist right now.Read more:The Supreme Court has said that gay and transgender workers are protected by federal law, forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex.Minority doctors are among the worst hit by the

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34:22

Why Hollywood loves cop stories

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2020/06/12

Alyssa Rosenberg on 100 years of police in pop culture and why we need to rethink cop stories on TV. And, fashion critic Robin Givhan on the symbolism of clothing on Capitol Hill this week.Read more:Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now.Dragnets, Dirty Harry and dying hard: 100 years of the police in pop culture.Congress’s kente-cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions.George Floyd’s brother came to Washington to speak. But his power was in the silences.Subscribe to The Washington Post:

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33:12

What it means to ‘defund the police’

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2020/06/11

Katie Mettler and Georgetown’s Christy Lopez delve into the movement to “defund the police.” Michael Kranish looks into Joe Biden’s complicated history on criminal justice. And Lenny Bernstein reports on a new hope for patients whose lungs have suffered from covid-19.Read more:Defund the police? Here’s what that really means.Joe Biden let police groups write his crime bill. Now, his agenda has changed.Surgeons perform the first known lung transplant for a coronavirus patient in the U.S.Subscribe to

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27:14

Why a vaccine won’t be a silver bullet

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2020/06/10

Joel Achenbach tracks the rising coronavirus caseloads in some parts of the country. William Wan explains how the virus could become the next measles or chickenpox. And Ben Guarino talks us through a time-tested method for disease containment.Read more:As the economy reopens, coronavirus transmission remains high in much of the U.S.Coronavirus may never go away — even with a vaccine.Reopening the country safely means deploying “disease detectives” — contact tracers — as soon as possible.Subscribe to

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25:53

A funeral, and a call to justice

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2020/06/09

George Floyd is laid to rest in Texas. We hear from some of the people who knew him. President Trump and federal law enforcement vs. Washington, D.C. And how a black police officer responded to protests.

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29:13

Why police convictions are so rare

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2020/06/08

Marissa Lang and Clarence Williams report from Washington, D.C., as protests continue across the country. Georgetown University’s Paul Butler explains why it’s so difficult to prosecute police. And Heather Long looks at why black Americans have been left out of the economic recovery.Read more:Protesters gather on the streets of Washington, D.C., and around the world.Filing charges in George Floyd’s death was the easy part. Now comes the hard part.Digging deeper into the latest jobs report — and how

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21:28

The legacy of American riots

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2020/06/05

Kellie Carter Jackson on the double standard that guides who can protest – and how – in the United States. And, Rachel Chason and Rebecca Tan examine what nursing home residents are experiencing during the pandemic.Read more:“There needs to be much more honesty about how we look back at the past and decipher what is violence, and what is a response to violence.”Nursing homes have been hard-hit by the coronavirus. Hear from residents in these facilities.Subscribe to The Washington Post:

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26:15

The failure to protect black Americans from covid-19

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2020/06/04

Reporter Robert Samuels talks about how disastrous and present coronavirus has been in the black community. Emily Rauhala on President Trump’s decision to sever ties with the World Health Organization during a pandemic. And Rachel Lerman on the pros and cons of surveillance for racial injustice protesters and police.Read more:Blacks are suffering from covid-19 at an alarming rate. Here’s how U.S. cities failed one of their most vulnerable populations.President Trump pledges to divert funds from the

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27:01

Racism, protests and the challenge for Joe Biden

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2020/06/03

How Joe Biden is responding to protests across the United States, from political reporter Cleve R. Wootson Jr. How President Trump uses religion as a political tool, from White House reporter Toluse Olorunnipa. And we hear from the protesters in their own words.Read more:Protests pose a challenge for Biden: Appealing to older and younger black voters.Trump’s naked use of religion as a political tool draws rebukes from some faith leaders.We’ve been hearing a lot about the protests in cities across

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