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Post Reports is the daily podcast from The Washington Post. Unparalleled reporting. Expert insight. Clear analysis. Everything you’ve come to expect from the newsroom of The Post, for your ears. Martine Powers and Elahe Izadi are your hosts, asking the questions you didn’t know you wanted answered. Published weekdays around 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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Jun 16, 2020 • 30min
How BLM is challenging Big Tech
Geoffrey Fowler describes the questions Black Lives Matter is raising for Big Tech. Ben Golliver considers the future of professional sports. And Marisa Iati, on how one data scientist is pushing back against faulty coronavirus stats in Florida. Read more:Black Lives Matter could change facial recognition forever – if Big Tech doesn’t stand in the way.The NBA has a plan for the playoffs. But players and fans have questions. Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the statistics on her own.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 15, 2020 • 26min
SCOTUS rules in favor of LGBTQ workers
Robert Barnes walks through the Supreme Court decision that protects gay and transgender people in the workplace. Karla Adam explains why minority and immigrant doctors are feeling the brunt of the coronavirus burden in Britain. And Eugene Scott describes how it feels to be a Black journalist right now. Read more:The Supreme Court has said that gay and transgender workers are protected by federal law, forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex.Minority doctors are among the worst hit by the coronavirus in Britain.What it’s like to cover the protests – as a Black journalist.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 12, 2020 • 34min
Why Hollywood loves cop stories
Alyssa Rosenberg on 100 years of police in pop culture and why we need to rethink cop stories on TV. And, fashion critic Robin Givhan on the symbolism of clothing on Capitol Hill this week. Read more:Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now.Dragnets, Dirty Harry and dying hard: 100 years of the police in pop culture.Congress’s kente-cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions.George Floyd’s brother came to Washington to speak. But his power was in the silences.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 11, 2020 • 33min
What it means to ‘defund the police’
Katie Mettler and Georgetown’s Christy Lopez delve into the movement to “defund the police.” Michael Kranish looks into Joe Biden’s complicated history on criminal justice. And Lenny Bernstein reports on a new hope for patients whose lungs have suffered from covid-19.Read more:Defund the police? Here’s what that really means. Joe Biden let police groups write his crime bill. Now, his agenda has changed.Surgeons perform the first known lung transplant for a coronavirus patient in the U.S. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 10, 2020 • 27min
Why a vaccine won’t be a silver bullet
Joel Achenbach tracks the rising coronavirus caseloads in some parts of the country. William Wan explains how the virus could become the next measles or chickenpox. And Ben Guarino talks us through a time-tested method for disease containment. Read more:As the economy reopens, coronavirus transmission remains high in much of the U.S.Coronavirus may never go away — even with a vaccine. Reopening the country safely means deploying “disease detectives” — contact tracers — as soon as possible.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 9, 2020 • 26min
A funeral, and a call to justice
George Floyd is laid to rest in Texas. We hear from some of the people who knew him. President Trump and federal law enforcement vs. Washington, D.C. And how a black police officer responded to protests.

Jun 8, 2020 • 29min
Why police convictions are so rare
Marissa Lang and Clarence Williams report from Washington, D.C., as protests continue across the country. Georgetown University’s Paul Butler explains why it’s so difficult to prosecute police. And Heather Long looks at why black Americans have been left out of the economic recovery. Read more:Protesters gather on the streets of Washington, D.C., and around the world. Filing charges in George Floyd’s death was the easy part. Now comes the hard part.Digging deeper into the latest jobs report — and how black Americans are getting left behind.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 5, 2020 • 21min
The legacy of American riots
Kellie Carter Jackson on the double standard that guides who can protest – and how – in the United States. And, Rachel Chason and Rebecca Tan examine what nursing home residents are experiencing during the pandemic.Read more:“There needs to be much more honesty about how we look back at the past and decipher what is violence, and what is a response to violence.”Nursing homes have been hard-hit by the coronavirus. Hear from residents in these facilities.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 4, 2020 • 26min
The failure to protect black Americans from covid-19
Reporter Robert Samuels talks about how disastrous and present coronavirus has been in the black community. Emily Rauhala on President Trump’s decision to sever ties with the World Health Organization during a pandemic. And Rachel Lerman on the pros and cons of surveillance for racial injustice protesters and police. Read more:Blacks are suffering from covid-19 at an alarming rate. Here’s how U.S. cities failed one of their most vulnerable populations.President Trump pledges to divert funds from the World Health Organization and complicates the U.S.’s relationship with Beijing. Racial injustice protesters can find themselves in the crosshairs of facial recognition technology, while other cameras seem to help their cause.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Jun 3, 2020 • 27min
Racism, protests and the challenge for Joe Biden
How Joe Biden is responding to protests across the United States, from political reporter Cleve R. Wootson Jr. How President Trump uses religion as a political tool, from White House reporter Toluse Olorunnipa. And we hear from the protesters in their own words.Read more:Protests pose a challenge for Biden: Appealing to older and younger black voters. Trump’s naked use of religion as a political tool draws rebukes from some faith leaders. We’ve been hearing a lot about the protests in cities across the country after the death of George Floyd — now we hear from the protestors themselves. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer


