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Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, speaks at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 7, 2019.  U.S. Rep. Cummings has died from complications of longtime health challenges, his office said in a statement on Oct. 17, 2019. (Photo by Cheriss May/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
Politics & Policy

Powerful Democratic Congressman, Elijah Cummings has died

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, died early Thursday.

7 years ago

Left to right, former Vice President Joe Biden, Massuchusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg react on stage during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Otterbein University. (Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

6 takeaways from the 4th Democratic presidential primary debate

The fourth Democratic debate was a long one. You might not have made it through the whole thing, but there were some potentially consequential moments.

7 years ago

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Health

New report stacks up ‘Medicare for All’ and the ‘public option’ by cost and coverage

A new Urban Institute report prices out popular reforms like “Medicare for All” and a so-called public option. Who will they cover? What will they cost?

7 years ago

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In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, photo Tarana Burke, founder and leader of the #MeToo movement, gestures as she speaks during an interview, in New York. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

MeToo leader launches new hashtag to mobilize voters

It reflects a frustration among activists that issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., connect before the September Democratic presidential primary debate. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

7 questions ahead of the next Democratic primary debate

The last few weeks have been dominated by the congressional impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But Democratic presidential candidates take center stage again this week.

7 years ago

Senator Chuck Schumer holds up the White House transcript of a call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
The Conversation

How to know which impeachment polls to believe – and which to skip

Pollsters are trying their best to track public opinion about the House Democrats’ decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

7 years ago

Families affected by pre-existing conditions attend a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Health

Democratic candidates divided on health care will soon be drowning in data

The Urban Institute will publish the first report of the 2020 election cycle to price out popular reforms like “Medicare for All” and a so-called public option.

7 years ago

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Former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled an ethics plan that also assails practices in the Trump administration. It comes as his son Hunter is making new pledges to curtail overseas business dealings to quell criticism over his role in Ukraine's energy sector while his father was managing policy with the nation.
(Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden takes on Trump with a sweeping ethics plan, amid push back over Ukraine

Joe Biden unveiled an ethics plan on Monday that directly targets President Trump, accusing him of creating the "most corrupt administration in modern history."

7 years ago

In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Impeachment may have leapfrogged to the top of the national agenda, but members of Congress still have their day jobs as legislators _ and they’re returning to work this coming week with mixed hopes of success. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Impeachment dominates, but much other work awaits Congress

Impeachment may have leapfrogged to the top of the national agenda, however, members of Congress are returning to Washington this coming week with mixed hopes of success.

7 years ago

Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker is seen outside of Vonda's Kitchen in Newark, N.J. on Oct. 12, 2019, ahead of an NPR-moderated discussion with voters. (A.J. Chavar for NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Cory Booker on impeachment: ‘I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution’

New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker supports Trump's impeachment inquiry regardless of polls showing that most Americans prefer to wait for the next election.

7 years ago

In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, a White House-released memorandum of President Donald Trump's July 25, 2019, telephone conversation with Ukraine's newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, released Sept. 25, 2019. (Wayne Partlow/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Anatomy of the phone call now imperiling Trump’s presidency

There were dozens of ears listening to Trump's phone call with the leader of Ukraine that is at the center of a House impeachment inquiry, as many eyes that saw what he said.

7 years ago

The latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, Texas v. Azar, was argued in July in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney Robert Henneke, representing the plaintiffs, spoke outside the courthouse on July 9.
(Gerald Herbert/AP)
NPR
Health

Heads up: A ruling on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act is coming

A decision in the latest court case to threaten the future of the Affordable Care Act could come as soon as this month.

7 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event Wednesday in Rochester, N.H. (Elise Amendola/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Joe Biden calls for Trump impeachment ‘to preserve our constitution’

Up until now Biden had reserved judgment, saying he supported the House's impeachment inquiry and wanted to see what the facts showed.

7 years ago

This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. (Michelle R. Smith/AP Photo)
Community
Billy Penn

How you can help Philadelphia get a fair count in the census

Philadelphia, along with the rest of the country, is about to witness a rare opportunity. No, it’s not the return of Halley’s Comet — that’s in 2061. It’s the U.S. Census!

7 years ago

Steven Ruggles, director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota, poses next to a Census Bureau poster. (Jim Mone/AP Photo)
Community
Broke in Philly

Census errs again, makes mistakes measuring poverty nationwide

In response, a census spokesperson said, “We are confident in the resources we have to conduct the census and continue the work on our ongoing surveys.”

7 years ago

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