Go beyond party lines with Justin T Weller and his counterparts as they work to bring you responsible media that focuses on honest opinions. The State of Us, formerly the Current Issues Show, examines the concepts that Americans are most passionate about and sheds light on those issues yet to be addressed.
TSOU Episode: Voters and Our Powers are Being Erased
Black elected officials in several states, from Congress down to the counties, have been drawn out of their districts this year or face headwinds to hold onto their seats. More than 30 years ago, Robert Reives Sr.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Ukraine Pleads for Biden and the US to Lead
KYIV, Ukraine-Ukraine said Wednesday it has launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces encroaching on its capital, Kyiv, and other key cities, seeking to reverse the momentum of a war that is entering its fourth week.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Ukraine Pleads for Biden and the US to Lead
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will bring his defiant, impassioned, Shakespeare-quoting statesmanship to Washington on Wednesday with a video address to Congress in which he is expected to implore American lawmakers to provide more military aid to help his country hold off Russia's intensifying onslaught. Mr. Zelensky is scheduled to speak at 9 a.m.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Faith in the Future of Money - What Should You Be Paid?
It's now a common job interview question. It can also be a trap. Here's how to answer. When she started her career in tech more than a decade ago, Shanae Chapman soon grew comfortable answering traditional interview questions: greatest strengths (time management, attention to detail), weaknesses (prioritization).
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Faith in the Future of Money - What Should You Be Paid?
Mr. Coy is a newsletter writer in Opinion. I felt two unexpected emotions - pity and guilt - one day recently while I was packing loose pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters into paper rolls to take to the bank.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Putin's Endgame Should Scare the World
Kyiv March 9, 11:04 p.m. Moscow March 10, 12:04 a.m. Washington March 9, 4:04 p.m. LVIV, Ukraine - With Ukrainian resistance holding firm and Western penalties seemingly toughening by the hour, the cost to Russia of its troubled, nearly two-week invasion mounted on Wednesday as its Central Bank limited withdrawals of foreign currency to protect the crashing ruble and the Kremlin's spokesman accused the United States of waging an "economic war."
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Putin's Endgame Should Scare the World
If you're hoping that the instability that Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine has wreaked on global markets and geopolitics has peaked, your hope is in vain. We haven't seen anything yet. Wait until Putin fully grasps that his only choices left in Ukraine are how to lose - early and small and a little humiliated or late and big and deeply humiliated.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Book Bans Spread, Transparency & Teachers Quitting
Challenges to books about sexual and racial identity are nothing new in American schools, but the tactics and politicization are. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Who Should Get to Vote? Becoming a Citizen
Ms. Abrahamian is a journalist who has written extensively about citizenship. Washingtonians love to complain about taxation without representation. But for me and my fellow noncitizens, it is a fact of political life that we submit to unquestioningly year after year, primary after primary, presidential election after presidential election.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: After Denouncing Dark Money Democrats Won With It in 2020
A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald Trump and win power in Washington. Kenneth P. Vogel and Ken Vogel's reporting from Washington focuses on the intersection of money, politics and influence.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Unite a Divided America With National Service & Debt
Formerly enslaved people called the phase that followed the Civil War, and their emancipation, Jubilee. In doing so, they at once communicated the joy of freedom and knowingly invoked the authority of the Bible: jubilee as an Old Testament law commanding the end of slavery, redistribution of land and forgiveness of debts.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Unite a Divided America With National Service & Debt
If we Americans listened to one another, perhaps we would recognize how absurd our discourse has become. It is our own fault that political discussions today are hotheaded arguments over whether the hooligans storming the halls of the Capitol were taking a tour or fomenting an insurrection; if we broadened our audiences, perhaps we would see the fallacy of claims that all Republicans are committed to voter suppression and that all Democrats are committed to voter fraud.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: More States? Congress Should Have Fewer Elections
Mr. Millman has written extensively about politics, policy and culture and is a columnist at The Week. From its beginning, the United States was built to expand. Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create states. Starting with the Vermont Republic in 1791, as America grew, the country's roster of states expanded as well.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: More States? Congress Should Have Fewer Elections
When the Constitution was being drafted, many framers and others strongly pressed the view, as mentioned in Federalist 53, "that where annual elections end, tyranny begins." At the time, most states had annual elections. Elbridge Gerry insisted that "the people of New England will never give up the point of annual elections."
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Battle for Election Posts - Dems vs GOP
Black elected officials in several states, from Congress down to the counties, have been drawn out of their districts this year or face headwinds to hold onto their seats. More than 30 years ago, Robert Reives Sr.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Battle for Election Posts - Dems vs GOP
A movement animated by Donald J. Trump's 2020 election lies is turning its attention to 2022 and beyond. ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - When thousands of Trump supporters gathered in Washington on Jan. 6 for the Stop the Steal rally that led to the storming of the U.S.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: $66 Billion Beef Industry - Who is Losing?
"You're feeding America and going broke doing it": After years of consolidation, four companies dominate the meatpacking industry, while many ranchers are barely hanging on. Steve Charter on his 8,000-acre ranch on the high plains of Montana. Credit...
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Clean Energy Needs What Indians Have
The federal government allowed a stockpile of spent fuel on a Minnesota reservation to balloon even as a dam project whittled down the amount of livable land. For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island Indian Community calls home, whittling them to about a third of their original size.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Clean Energy Needs What Indians Have
Race to the Future Mining the minerals that may be needed for a green energy revolution could devastate tribal lands. The Biden administration will be forced to choose. The Yellow Pine Pit, a legacy mining site that was used throughout the 20th century to mine for gold, tungsten, antimony and silver in the historic Stibnite Mining District of central Idaho.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Could More Political Parties fix our Divided Country?
This essay is part of a series exploring bold ideas to revitalize and renew the American experiment. Read more about this project from Ezekiel Kweku, Opinion's politics editor. America's two-party system is broken. Democrats and Republicans are locked in an increasingly destructive partisan struggle that has produced gridlock and stagnation on too many critical issues - most urgently, the pandemic and climate change.
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