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Big Announcement! from 2021-11-12T12:00
Guess what? We are officially phasing out The Takeaway's Politics with Amy Walter.
We are still making our weekly politics show, but it will officially be housed on The Takeaway Pod...
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Politics: The Inscrutable Senator Kyrsten Sinema from 2021-10-29T12:00
The Inscrutable Senator Kyrsten Sinema
During Sinema's bri...
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Politics: Debt Ceiling Deal Extended but For How Long? from 2021-10-08T12:00
Debt Ceiling Deal Extended but For How Long?
Join us for this week's politica...
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Politics: Does Bipartisanship Still Work? from 2021-08-13T12:00
Does Bipartisanship Still Work?
A conversation on the history of bipartisan legisl...
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Politics: Democratic Strategy Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections from 2021-07-23T12:00
Democratic Strategy Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections
Six months into Bi...
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Politics: Crime on the Rise, Biden Visits North Carolina, NYC's Next Mayor from 2021-06-25T12:00
President Biden Looks to Address Crime
On Wednesday, President Biden laid out...
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Politics: A Very Special Juneteenth Episode from 2021-06-18T12:00
This week, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law officially establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the day that enslaved people in Texas found out they were free, tw...
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Politics: Latest in Immigration, West Virginia and Senator Manchin from 2021-06-11T12:00
Guest host: Melissa Harris-Perry.
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Politics: Supreme Court Prepares for Busy June of Decisions from 2021-06-04T12:00
This week marked the start of June, which is the last month of the Supreme Court’s current term. That means we’ll be seeing a number Listen
Politics: Breaking Down President Biden's $6 Trillion 2022 Budget from 2021-05-28T12:00
Breaking Down President Biden's $6 Trillion 2022 Budget
The president's...
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Politics: Vaccine Incentives, Unemployment Benefits, Rep. Stefanik from 2021-05-15T12:00
A Look at Covid-19 Vaccine Incentives: Will They Work?
There's a ...
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Politics: Biden's First 100 Days, Newsom Recall, Economy, Political TV Dramas from 2021-04-30T12:00
President Joe Biden's First 100 Days
President Biden has used his first hundr...
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Politics: Colorado's History of Mass Shootings, Gun Reform, Southern Border from 2021-03-27T12:00
A Look Back at Colorado's History of Mass Shootings
This week, a gunma...
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The Future of American Politics from 2021-02-26T12:00
After four tumultuous years of the Trump presidency,President Joe Biden promised to put the chaos behind him and return the country to normalcy. While dysfunction and partisan gridlock in ...
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Election Officials Reflect on the 2020 Cycle from 2021-02-19T12:00
Over the past 25 years, the makeup of newsrooms—and the people covering politics—has changed significantly. As more women and people of color joined the media, ne...
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The Fight Over Returning to School from 2021-02-12T12:00
March will mark one year since students began learning from home. Today, about Listen
Politics with Amy Walter: Washington Tests Biden's Calls for Unity from 2021-01-29T12:00
President Biden’s campaign message of unity is being tested in Washington during his first full week in office, particularly because Republicans and Democrats don’t seem to agree on what u...
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How President Biden Will Tackle the Economic Crisis from 2021-01-22T12:00
Joe Biden takes the helm as the 46th president of the United States during an unprecedented crisis. The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 400,000 Americans, nearly 16 million remai...
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What Happens to President Trump's Grip on the GOP Following Two Impeachments? from 2021-01-15T12:00
President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives just one week after encouraging his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol and disrupt Congress as they tallied Joe Biden’s Ele...
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How President Trump Attempted to Subvert Democracy from 2021-01-08T12:00
This week, a violent mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The insurrectionists were seeking to overturn the results of the general election during a joint session ...
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How American Democracy Became Vulnerable to the Threat of Populism from 2020-12-25T12:00
Individual reactions to the coronavirus pandemic and the public health restrictions that have accompanied it have underscored how powerful negative partisanship can be in the formation of ...
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The Old South vs. The New South from 2020-12-21T12:00
Since Georgia flipped blue for President-elect Joe Biden, the gulf between the Old South and the New South has come into focus.
Come January, the state’s closely watched runoff elec...
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Freshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Cliff Bentz, OR-2 from 2020-12-19T12:00
Cliff Bentz was elected to represent Oregon's 2nd Congressional District this fall. He will fill the seat left open by retiring Congressman Greg Walden who served the district for more than 20 y...
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What Happens to Immigration and DACA Under the Biden Administration? from 2020-12-18T12:00
During the 2016 election, President Trump spent a considerable amount of time talking about immigration. On the campaign trail, he made racist comments about Mexicans and one of his first ...
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Freshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Nicole Malliotakis, NY-11 from 2020-12-13T12:00
Nicole Malliotakisis one of a record number of Republican women who were elected to Congress this fall. She defeated first-term Democratic Co...
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Making Sense of the Electoral College from 2020-12-12T12:00
This week marked the so-called safe harbor deadline when states have certified their results for the U.S. presidential election. Typically, by the safe harbor deadline, election-related ch...
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How the Economic Downturn has Hurt Vulnerable Americans from 2020-12-11T12:00
In the nine months that the coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the U.S., the most vulnerable Americans have struggled to keep up with monthly expenses. Eight million Americans have fallen in...
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Freshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Ritchie Torres, NY-15 from 2020-12-05T12:00
New York's 15th congressional district in the South Bronx has been called theListen
What to Expect of the Relationship Between Joe Biden and the Press? from 2020-12-05T12:00
President Donald Trump spent his first term undermining the credibility of the media. His tweets, campaign events, and press conferences were tools he used to cast doubt on th...
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How the Media is Preparing to Cover the Biden Administration from 2020-12-04T12:00
President Donald Trump spent his first term undermining the credibility of the media. His tweets, campaign events, and press conferences were tools he used to cast doubt on the legitimacy of rep...
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What Really Happened to the Middle Class? from 2020-11-27T12:00
As around70 percentof American...
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Freshman Conversation: Representative-Elect Ashley Hinson, IA-01 from 2020-11-20T12:00
Republican Congresswoman-elect Ashley Hinson is one of a record-breaking number of Rep...
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How a Biden White House will Approach Climate Change from 2020-11-20T12:00
The priority for many Democratic voters in the most recent election cycle was removing President Donald Trump from the White House. This was clear after a crowded primary field coalesced around ...
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A Presidential Transition Delayed from 2020-11-13T12:00
By refusing to concede, President Trump is not only disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, a cornerstone of American democracy, but he’s delaying the Biden administration access to pertinent...
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Joe Biden Wins Presidency from 2020-11-07T12:00
All week, election results have trickled in from across the country. With just a few states outstanding, Vice President Joe Biden has surpassed the 270 threshold of electoral votes to win the ra...
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The Next President of the United States from 2020-11-06T12:00
Not immediately knowing which candidate won the White House has long been a reality of a world changed by COVID-19. What campaigns, pundits, and pollsters failed to predict was the distance that...
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Final Thoughts Before Election Day from 2020-10-30T12:00
The ongoing campaign cycle was met by a number of twists that couldn’t have been predicted. A consequential presidential race, the pandemic, an economic downturn, and the killing of George Floyd...
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What Early Voting Patterns Tell Us About Wisconsin from 2020-10-23T12:00
This week marked the second and final debate between Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. What has felt like a never-ending election cycle is taking place against the backdrop of a pandemic, an...
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Democrats Gain Edge in Quest to Overtake the Senate from 2020-10-16T12:00
After the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18th and nomination of Amy Coney Barrett just a week later on September 26th, there’s been a lot of speculation about th...
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What A Year This Week Has Been from 2020-10-09T12:00
There are just over three weeks until Election Day and President Donald Trump is trailing Joe Biden in national polls by double digits. Sidelined with COVID-19 and unable to participate in tradi...
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How the President's Coronavirus Diagnosis Alters the Race for the White House from 2020-10-02T12:00
On Friday morning, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump said they had tested positive for the coronavirus. More than seven million people in the United States have been infected w...
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What's Next for Amy Coney Barrett's SCOTUS Nomination? from 2020-09-27T12:00
On Saturday, President Trump nominated 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat. If confirmed, conservative Judge Barrett would become...
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A Look at the SCOTUS Nomination Fight from 2020-09-25T12:00
The U.S. has observed a week of mourning since Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, in addition to partisan warfare regarding her replacement. Senate Republicans have decided the...
How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death will Affect the Battle for the White House from 2020-09-19T12:00
After serving 27 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday from complications associated with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg was the second woman to ...
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Raising (Votes in) Arizona from 2020-09-18T12:00
Arizona has been a reliably Republican state at the presidential level in every election since 1952 — except when Bill Clinton won in 1996. But a rapidly growing population has chipped away at t...
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How North Carolina's Electoral Process Is Unfolding from 2020-09-11T12:00
While the bedrock of democracy is free and fair elections, the President has been sowing seeds of distrust throughout the course of the campaign. He's used his platform to spread conspiracy theo...
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The Role of Political Disinformation in the Race for the White House from 2020-09-04T12:00
Since May, protests have unfolded to denounce the way police interact with Black Americans. Most recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed father, has grabbed national headlines. Blake w...
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Whose Convention Resonated Best? from 2020-08-28T12:00
Over the last two weeks, both the Republican and Democratic parties have proposed their visions for America and they could not be more different.
President Trump used his primetime sp...
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A Virtual Democratic Convention from 2020-08-21T12:00
This week, Joe Biden officially became the Democratic nominee for president in the first-ever virtual convention. While there were no crowds, handshakes, or applause to demonstrate excitement, t...
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Processing a New Kind of Election Night from 2020-08-14T12:00
The surge in absentee ballots because of the coronavirus could mean the outcome of the presidential race remains undetermined for weeks after the first Tuesday in November. Recently, The New Yor...
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Black Women Are Center Stage in 2020 from 2020-08-10T12:00
This week, Cori Bush defeated longtime Democratic Congressman Lacy Clay, in the primary for Missouri’s First Congressional District. A safe Democratic seat, Bush is all but guaranteed to win in ...
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In Pursuit of a Coronavirus Vaccine from 2020-08-09T12:00
While many countries have curbed their total number of coronavirus cases, the U.S. has recorded more than four ...
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The Path to November from 2020-08-01T12:00
This week, President Trump renewed his commitment to questioning the integrity of our election system and the Senate left town on Thursday without reaching an agreement on a new stimulus bill, l...
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Diagnosing Georgia's Primary Problems from 2020-07-31T14:00
Perhaps, no state better embodies the polarization and partisanship with which we approach election administration than Georgia.
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An Unexpected Battle for the Senate from 2020-07-25T14:00
Conventional wisdom had most people thinking that any gains that Democrats made in the Senate would be nominal. But, unexpected events over the last six months have turned a long-shot into the v...
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Remembering John Lewis from 2020-07-24T14:00
Last Friday, the world learned of the death of Congressman John Lewis. A civil rights icon and hero, John Lewis was known as the "conscience of the Congress," where he served for more than 30 ye...
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A Look at the Next Stimulus Package from 2020-07-20T14:00
It’s been four months since the U.S. economy shut down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, more than three million Americans have been infected by the virus and tens of millions...
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North Carolina, Up For Grabs from 2020-07-17T14:00
With its 15 electoral votes, North Carolina is one of a handful of states truly up for grabs come November. Since 2008, no presidential candidate has carried the state by more than three points....
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How Cities Across the U.S. are Responding to Demands for Police Reform from 2020-07-10T14:00
Lately, President Donald Trump’s speeches and tweets have become more pointed and divisive as he attempts to appeal to members of his base. There are four crucial months until election day and t...
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What it's Like To Start A Career During The Coronavirus Pandemic from 2020-07-03T14:00
When the COVID-19 swept the U.S. in March, it was hard to fully understand how society would fundamentally change. Since then, more than 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment. As stat...
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What a Surge in Absentee Ballots Means for November 2020 from 2020-06-26T14:00
The uncertainty caused by COVID-19 has resulted in a record number of people requesting to vote-by-mail. While increased access to mail ballots will stem the spread of the disease, waiting for b...
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Politics with Amy Walter: A National Reckoning from 2020-06-19T14:00
In the weeks since George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis, we’ve been watching uprisings take place against police brutality. What many Americans have finally woken up to is w...
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