Thinking CAP Podcast
1) Farewell For Now, But Not For Long
Like with any good project, it takes a team to get you across the finish line. For two seasons, the Center for American Progress has published this weekly podcast in hopes of encouraging its listeners...Show More
2) Trump against the World at the G7 Summit
It wouldn’t be an international convening if President Trump didn’t make himself the center of the attention. Over the weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted the G7 Summit with leaders from ...Show More
3) Planning for the Future in an Uncertain Economy
Halloween may be more than two months away, but something in the air already has the markets spooked. Worries about the end of the bull market and a looming recession has economists and politicos worr...Show More
4) Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Global Fight Against HIV/AIDS
For decades, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been among the most challenging global health issues to contain. Enter Dr. Anthony Fauci, immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infe...Show More
5) ‘Here We Are Again’: On Gun Violence, White Nationalism, and the Scapegoating of Mental Illness
Once again, the country mourns after a weekend that saw two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, and more than 30 innocents killed. And once again, the blame game—or, rather, the scapego...Show More
6) Yes, the President Is Still a Racist
President Donald Trump had himself another very bad, no good, extremely racist week, and it seems the rest of the nation is finally taking notice of the trend. With a majority of Americans now believi...Show More
7) No Exoneration: Ned Price on Mueller’s Congressional Testimony
Three months after releasing his report investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared before the House Judiciary and Intelligenc...Show More
8) The National Security Council and the 'American Way of War'
As the president continues to manipulate the news cycle on Twitter—lobbing racist tropes at progressives in the U.S. House of Representatives—the world and all of its problems continue to spin. In a n...Show More
9) Steve Scully: An Interview With ‘The Most Patient Man on Television’
The Trump era has changed the way the free press and the White House interact—that much is certain. So where does that leave a network like C-SPAN, the so-called Switzerland of the media, which aims n...Show More
10) Ari Berman: A Green Light to Gerrymander
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court reached two significant decisions on cases affecting voting rights in the United States. The first dealt a blow to the fate of fair voting maps, where the court found...Show More