5 on 45 Podcast

NFL player kneeling.

Protests, patriotism, and the history of black athletes in America

Nicol Turner Lee

Friday, September 29, 2017

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), speaks with reporters following the party luncheons on Capitol Hill.

After Graham-Cassidy, what’s next for health care and tax reform?

Molly E. Reynolds

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Christian Democratic Union CDU party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a news conference at the CDU party headquarters, the day after the general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin, Germany September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach - RC1C6D427BF0

Merkel wins, far right gains: What happened in Germany’s elections?

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, September 25, 2017

Newly elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan (L) addresses the House for the first time on Capitol Hill in Washington October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - TB3EBAT19QGHS

What tax cuts can Congress pass?

William G. Gale

Monday, September 25, 2017

A Trump supporter (R) yells at a demonstrator (L) after Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump cancelled his rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago March 11, 2016. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000342487

What US college students think about free speech

John Villasenor

Thursday, September 21, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC15FE4DBE80

Trump threatens North Korea at the UN. What now?

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

A Rohingya refugee woman waits for aid with her grandson inside their temporary shelter at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui - RC1D5DCADAE0

The humanitarian crisis facing the Rohingya in Myanmar

Lex Rieffel and Jonathan Stromseth

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Paul Manafort of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's staff listens during a round table discussion on security at Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., August 17, 2016. Picture taken August 17, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - S1AETWIWWYAA

What does the FBI’s surveillance of Manafort mean?

Susan Hennessey

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

People protest Facebook's "real names" police with signs while marching in a gay pride parade in San Francisco, California June 28, 2015. Opponents say the policy opens gays, lesbians, trans people and others to harrassment and danger, both digital and physical. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage - GF10000143173

Facebook’s offensive ad targeting

Nicol Turner Lee

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

world trade center

On terrorists’ shift in tactics since 9/11

Monday, September 11, 2017

Nancy Pelosi

On Trump’s debt ceiling deal

Molly E. Reynolds

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Demonstrators hold signs during a protest in front of the White House after the Trump administration today scrapped the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children, in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC12174D8090

On Trump’s decision to end DACA

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

A farm worker cuts the stalk of an avocado in San Isidro orchard in Uruapan, in Michoacan state, Mexico, January 31, 2017. Picture taken on January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1A0AF83AE0

On the NAFTA renegotiations

Friday, September 1, 2017

Trucks wait in the queue for border customs control to cross into U.S. at the Bridge of Americas in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, August 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - RTS1BXX4

On Trump’s Phoenix speech and the border wall

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, August 24, 2017

A sign honoring Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, VA

On Trump’s response to Charlottesville

Friday, August 18, 2017