Meet the Press NOW — December 5
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders another strike on an alleged drug boat. The CDC vaccine advisory panel votes to end a decades-long vaccine recommendation that newborns receive the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. Director of Syracuse University’s Democracy, Journalism and Citiz...
Pete Hegseth falls under scrutiny for 'jaw-dropping' Iran moves: 'How damning'
The Real Story Behind the Scandal: Unveiling the Blame Game in U.S.-Iran Tensions
In the high-stakes game of international military operations, the recent backlash surrounding the U.S.-Iran conflict, particularly focusing on President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, unveils a com...
Justin Gest — Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy - with Margaret Talev
Democratic Drain links two of the most compelling topics of our time: immigration and democracy. With a blend of in-depth interviews and data analysis across 149 countries, Justin Gest explores how global migration filters people with liberal democratic values out of authoritarian spaces, enablin...
The Lunch Counter That Welcomed Everyone: Inside Ben's Chili Bowl - 250 American Firsts
Before it was a stop on every politician's D.C. itinerary, Ben's Chili Bowl was a family restaurant on U Street with a half-smoke, a chili dog, and a jukebox. Nizam Ali — son of founders Ben and Virginia Ali — grew up snapping frozen sausage links for $2 a day, years before he understood what his...
The World's First National Park | America 250 - Collin O'Mara, National Wildlife Federation president
Before it became the template more than a hundred countries would copy, Yellowstone was two million acres almost no one in Washington had ever seen. When Congress voted to protect it in 1872, most lawmakers were deciding the fate of a place they knew only through paintings and photographs an expe...
Bob Costas on America's First Olympics (1904 St. Louis) | America 250
The first time the Olympics came to the United States, in 1904, they were supposed to go to Chicago.
St. Louis, busy staging a World's Fair that same year, wanted them too — and pressured the IOC into moving the Games west, where they ended up folded into the fair as an afterthought. Bob Costas ...
Bacon, Cigarettes, and Khakis — America's First PR Campaigns | 250 American Firsts
In 1925 Edward Bernays sold America bacon by asking 5,000 doctors about breakfast. Gina Luttrell of Syracuse's Newhouse School joins Margaret Talev and Ghael Fobes on the campaigns that invented modern PR — bacon and eggs, Torches of Freedom, and the HR pamphlet that normalized Casual Friday.
Lu...
250 AF - America's First Black Congressmen | Special Guest Rep. James Clyburn
In December 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, the first Black man to serve there. Seven more Black South Carolinians followed him through 1897, and then the state didn't send another for nearly a century.
The ninth was Jim Clyburn, elected ...
What's dividing voters in Kansas?
Axios' Margaret Talev and Kansas Public Radio's Jim McLean discuss the dividing lines in Kansas where President Trump campaigned this week. They also unpack the fallout from a political advertisement in the Ohio gubernatorial race that's being called one of the ugliest of the midterm election cyc...
Episode 50 The Badass Survivor Mary Vincent and The Island of Death
Hello everyone! On this week's episode of Death Over Cocktails Keitha will tell us about Mary Vincent, a fifteen year old hitchiker that survived a brutal attack by a piece of human garbage. Then Jess will tell us the history and legend about a huanted island located off of Italy in which pleague...
