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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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Apr 25, 2020 • 19min
The history of American antipathy toward masks
Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply.Read more:Will Americans wear masks to prevent coronavirus spread? Politics, history, race and crime factor into tough decisions.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 24, 2020 • 23min
A coronavirus crisis in the Navy
Dan Lamothe explains how the Navy tried and failed to control a coronavirus outbreak -- and a crisis of confidence -- on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Plus, child psychiatrist Matthew Biel on how to talk to kids about the global pandemic. Read more:How an outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt became a defining moment for the U.S. military.Parents are the filter for how kids understand the pandemic. Tips on how to talk to them about the coronavirus.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 23, 2020 • 20min
Why reopening states is a ‘deadly mistake’
Georgia will begin reopening businesses Friday, against the advice of experts and the White House. William Wan reports on what will happen next. For survivors of AIDS, an eerie deja vu, from reporter Jada Yuan. And, what Trump’s new immigration policy actually means, from Nick Miroff. Read more:States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn.They survived the HIV crisis. Now New York’s aging gay population is confronting another plague.Trump signs order pausing immigration for 60 days, with exceptions.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 22, 2020 • 19min
Can we all be better Earthlings?
On Earth Day, Sarah Kaplan asks how we can be better Earthlings. Seung Min Kim analyzes the new coronavirus response bill working its way through Congress. And Monica Hesse explains why we’re all having extra-weird dreams.Read more:What does it mean to be a good Earthling?The Senate has passed a $484 billion bill that would expand small-business aid and boost money for hospitals and testing. Will it be enough?You’re not the only one having weird dreams. Being trapped in our homes has made our subconsciouses run wild.Follow The Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 21, 2020 • 26min
What’s slowing down coronavirus testing
Juliet Eilperin explains the delays in widespread testing. Young people aren’t as vulnerable to the coronavirus, but the crisis is affirming their political frustrations, Hannah Knowles reports. And Michelle Lee on campaign fundraising in a pandemic.Read more:Why is it taking so long to ramp up coronavirus testing?Generation Z is fed up with the status quo. Coronavirus could affirm their beliefs.Joe Biden posted the biggest monthly fundraising haul of his campaign in March. Will the pandemic slow him down?Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 20, 2020 • 28min
Why shelves are empty at the grocery store
Laura Reiley explains the kinks in the food supply chain leaving grocery shelves bare. Grocery workers share their well-founded fears with Abha Bhattarai. Erin Patrick O’Connor hears from sanitation workers on the pandemic’s front line.Read more:The industry says we have enough food. Here’s why some grocery store shelves are empty anyway.The grocery workers on the front line of the pandemic never thought of their jobs as risky. Now, they’re scared to go to work.Sanitation workers are exposed to the coronavirus every day they go to work.Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 18, 2020 • 9min
Finding solace in paintings of parties
Over the past few weeks, many people have said they feel like figures in an Edward Hopper painting. On this bonus episode of Post Reports, art critic Sebastian Smee has a reminder from Renoir and Manet that the good times will return. Read more:We’re all alone. So let’s get lost in these paintings of parties.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 17, 2020 • 25min
Life for a medical worker in a pandemic
Alaa Daghlas, a physician assistant at a Bronx hospital, grapples with her decision to return to work after recovering from covid-19. And Jon Gerberg reports from an ICU in Brooklyn scrambling to keep up with the influx of coronavirus patients.Read more:Alaa Daghlas prepares for her first day back on the front lines of a Bronx hospital after contracting covid-19. Inside a Brooklyn ICU, health-care workers risk their lives to care for coronavirus patients in critical condition. Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 16, 2020 • 26min
The coronavirus is killing Americans under age 50
Chris Mooney reports on the science of why some younger people are getting better, while others are dying of covid-19. Griff Witte reports on how parties and gatherings became clusters. And Annie Gowen on coronavirus deniers. Read more:The medical mystery of why some people under age 50 are dying of covid-19.The coronavirus had already reached the United States, but the parties went on. Experts say the inconsistent manner that social gatherings shut down across states gave the illness a head start.Some people deny the seriousness of the global pandemic as a plot to get President Trump. Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage here. Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer

Apr 15, 2020 • 30min
How coronavirus will reshape the world’s borders
Martine Powers and Ishaan Tharoor explore the meaning of borders in a pandemic, and how coronavirus might change travel and migration in the future. And Mary Beth Sheridan walks us through public service announcements from around the world.Read more:Countries are slamming borders shut. What will it look like when they reopen? From Japan to Uganda, global public service announcements are emerging to help fight coronavirus. Check out our episode from December about “sober curiosity,” which one listener said is helping him through social distancing. Follow The Post’s live coronavirus coverage here.Subscribe to The Washington Post: https://postreports.com/offer


