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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley had written a letter of resignation. In it, he accused former President Donald Trump of betraying the country. But Milley never sent the letter. That's according to a stunning report in the New Yorker magazine. -
The nation's meatpacking companies skirted COVID safety regulations. And they did it with the White House's help, according to a little known Congressional report. So how’d they get away with it?
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The federal government is spending big to usher in an electric vehicle future. What ideas can make sure the money is well spent?
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One in five Americans are now invested in crypto currencies. But what exactly have they bought?
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A pandemic program that worked, but was eliminated anyway. We hear what's behind the end of the universal free school meals program.
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Delays. Cancellations. Passengers stuck in the wrong city and bags stuck wherever they were dropped. Will airline service ever improve?
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On Point senior editor speaks with Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the actions the federal government could take to improve the airline industry.
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The Supreme Court upended 40 years of deference to agencies like the EPA. They've ruled that the EPA can't aggressively regulate carbon emissions. But the ruling could curb the reach of almost every regulatory agency in the country.
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Historian Jon Grinspan says Americans in the past fought to fix their democracy. "Many of our problems have, if not identical moments in the past, parallels and similar tendencies in our democracy across time.”
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Who's to blame for America's polarized politics? The government? The media? Special interests? Tom Nichols says the problem is 'all of us.'
