Direct Democracy on Abortion, Trump’s Direct Threats Land In Court

Yesterday evening President Joe Biden delivered this year's State Of The Union speech, which centered on both pressing foreign policy concerns and critical matters of American democracy.

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Tyler Pager, Washington Post White House reporter, offers analysis of President Biden's State of the Union address, amid high election year stakes.

California voters have decided that the Senate race in November's general election will pit Rep. Adam Schiff against Republican and former LA Dodgers star Steve Garvey.

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Christian Paz, senior politics reporter for Vox, offers analysis of California's Senate primary.

After Super Tuesday, a look at how the 2024 presidential candidates might be vying for low-enthusiasm members of their party in the coming months.

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Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall and The Big Deal with Errol Louis, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast "You Decide," shares his analysis of Super Tuesday results including breaking news that Nikki Haley has suspended her 2024 election campaign.

How do the major legal cases facing the former president intersect with today's important primaries?

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Melissa Murray, NYU law professor, co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast, and Andrew Weissmann, professor of practice at NYU School of Law who was the lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel's Office, authors of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), discuss the Supreme Court's ruling allowing Donald Trump to appear on the Colorado ballot, his other legal proceedings, and the 2024 election.

Asma Khalid, White House correspondent for NPR and co-host of The NPR Politics Podcast, contributor to ABC News, talks about the latest national political news, including whether the "uncommitted" voters will become a bigger problem for President Biden, and more.

News broke this week of two separate overcrowded locations in New York City housing dozens of migrants from Africa.

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Amaha Kassa, founder and executive director of African Communities Together, talks about the challenges facing African asylum seekers in the city.

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For Black History Month, Clarence Lusane, professor and current director of the International Affairs program at Howard University, reflects on Jesse Jackson's two historic bids for the presidency.

New York's junior senator provides her take on Alabama's recent 'fetal personhood' case, and what it could mean for reproductive health around the country. 

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U.S. Senator (D, NY) Kirsten Gillibrand talks about her work in Washington and more national politics.  

How did misunderstandings and miscommunications, including between the Bush administration and Saddam Hussein lead to the 2003 invasion of Iraq?

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Steve Coll, an editor at The Economist in London, dean emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School, former president of New America, and the author of Ghost Wars and his new book, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A. and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq (Penguin, 2024), traces the prelude to war over non-existent weapons of mass destruction, and the implications for today's Mideast policies.

As we close out the second month of the 2024 election year, numerous anti-trans laws have been enacted across the country.

On Today's Show:
Alejandra Caraballo, Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, looks at the latest in anti-trans policies including an executive order in Nassau County that targets young trans women athletes as well as Oklahoma’s anti-trans laws that are under new scrutiny after a 16 year old nonbinary child died a day after an altercation in their school’s bathroom.