Great episodes to binge from The Post's podcasts in 2020
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his Army platoon for three days when he ordered them to kill three Afghans on a dirt road. After a second-degree murder conviction, Lorance was pardoned by Trump, h...Show More
Clint Lorance had been in charge of his Army platoon for three days when he ordered them to kill three Afghans on a dirt road. After a second-degree murder conviction, Lorance was pardoned by Trump, h...Show More
The Senate has now said yes, the president can do that, regarding his conduct in Ukraine. So what does Trump’s acquittal mean for the powers of the presidency? Post senior editor Marc Fisher talks abo...Show More
Alaa Daghlas, a physician assistant at a Bronx hospital, contracted covid-19. She let us into her world March 30-April 7 as she grappled with the decision to return to work after her recovery, and pre...Show More
A listener asks a question about organ donations in the time of covid-19 … and her question leads Martine down a rabbit hole on the current state of organ transplantation in the United States.
Today’s Post Reports takes a look at the little known story about how the 19th Amendment was ratified. And, how Black women had to keep fighting for the right to vote even after the 19th Amendment pas...Show More
Empieza la Convención Demócrata y sobre las encuestas hablamos con el corresponsal en Washington de El Mundo de Madrid. Sobre Bielorrusia con un periodista que vivió en Minsk. Y sobre la Gaba, con el ...Show More
The past and future of Hollywood’s love affair with law enforcement. And, the symbolism of clothes on Capitol Hill this week.
The stark disparities in how covid-19 affects black Americans, from Robert Samuels. How wearing a face mask in public is different for black men, from Tracy Jan. And navigating the politics of hair du...Show More
A special episode of “Presidential” explores how a 1939 concert transformed the Lincoln Memorial into a stage for civil rights protests. Featuring Molefi Kete Asante, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Philip K...Show More
Full emergency rooms. Expanded ICUs. Double shifts. 3 a.m. phone calls to patients’ families. A look inside the hospitals at Texas Medical Center in Houston — the epicenter of the state’s new surge in...Show More
In the pandemic times, sourdough bread is king. Post Reports producer Reena Flores goes on a journey to find out why, with King Arthur Flour co-chief executive Karen Colberg and ancient bread maker Se...Show More
A new Senate report alleges close ties between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. And how Sen. Kamala D. Harris was shaped by her time at the historically Black Howard University.
The world is looking to Timothy Sheahan for hope. He’s a virologist at UNC-Chapel Hill leading the effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine—and fast. He shared recordings of a week in his life, from Ma...Show More
Reporter Isaac Stanley-Becker unpacks the electoral vulnerabilities state primaries have revealed, and election law expert Ned Foley lays out what can -- and legally can’t -- happen as we look toward ...Show More
Older people can face serious health effects from being isolated — but it’s also what’s keeping them safe amid the pandemic. Advice on surviving isolation from a reporter who was held in isolation in ...Show More
Washington Post education reporter Laura Meckler takes listeners behind the reporting for her story “The test of their lives,” in which she spent months watching a public-school teacher and his studen...Show More
Inside a New York hospital on the front lines of the pandemic. And how health-care workers are forced to face their own mortality.
The coronavirus outbreak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could be a cautionary tale for other higher education institutions. Joe Biden’s decades-long journey for the Democratic nomi...Show More
In ’84, a former VP got the Democratic presidential nomination, faced a Republican incumbent and chose the first female running mate in U.S. history. Sound familiar? Go behind history in this special ...Show More
President Trump has been surrounded by controversies over his rhetoric when it comes to race. Some hoped he would moderate his tone in office, but four years later, the president has inflamed racial t...Show More
Through his administration’s efforts to weaken agencies, control the flow of information coming out of government and shutter scientific programs, we explore how President Trump has increased division...Show More
We all know about the death of George Floyd. But what about his life? On this special episode of “Post Reports,” we tell the story of Floyd’s family, his upbringing and how racism hobbled his ambition...Show More
A stranger attacks a jogger in D.C., sparking a four-year courtroom saga and a campaign for justice.
We head to Alabama to investigate allegations about a prominent figure in the D.C. justice system.
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more than 675,000 Americans, but President Woodrow Wilson never made a single public statement about it. Why? Here’s what happens when efforts to promote patriotism ...Show More
Even before the pandemic, Orlando was plagued by a lack of affordable housing. Then Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving hundreds of people trapped in rundown motels on the edge of society.
Four years later, the “Presidential” podcast adds a new biography to its cadre of American presidents. This special episode explores Joe Biden's decades-long, hard-fought personal and political path t...Show More