Analysis News Analysis Divided Democrats Back Down on Iraq February 28, 2007 • House Democrats are walking a balance beam when it comes to President Bush's request for $99 billion for seven months of fighting. Many fear being made responsible for a withdrawal that becomes a debacle. And most Democrats agree the war should remain the responsibility of the Bush administration.
Obama to Attend Selma March Anniversary February 28, 2007 • Sen. Barack Obama will speak this weekend on the anniversary of the day in 1965 when civil rights marchers were beaten in Selma, Ala. He talks about the trip and his experiences as a black presidential hopeful. Obama to Attend Selma March Anniversary Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7630250/7630260" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Obama to Attend Selma March Anniversary Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7630250/7630260" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Soldier Serves in Arizona's State Legislature February 28, 2007 • Weeks before last fall's election, Jonathan Paton shipped off to Iraq, to serve in an Army Intelligence Unit. He was re-elected as an Arizona state representative in absentia. He found out he won while in the middle of a mortar attack. He finished his tour and just came back home, safe and sound. Yesterday, he was sworn into office on the floor of the House of Representatives, even though the session is almost two months old. Soldier Serves in Arizona's State Legislature Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648720/7648721" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Soldier Serves in Arizona's State Legislature Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648720/7648721" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
The Immigration Debate Senate Panel Begins Immigration Debate Anew February 28, 2007 • The Senate Judiciary Committee discusses how to sell the idea of a mass legalization to a skeptical American public, many of whom oppose "amnesty." The panel is picking up the immigration issue pretty much where it left off last year. Senate Panel Begins Immigration Debate Anew Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648702/7648703" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Senate Panel Begins Immigration Debate Anew Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648702/7648703" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
National Somalian Refugee Finds Connections in Seattle February 28, 2007 • Koshin Mohamed, a Somali refugee, works as a shopkeeper in southern Seattle. He says he has been tapped by the new transitional government in Somalia to be the new Somalian Ambassador to the United States. But the 28-year-old has found some powerful allies in the world of conservative U.S. politics. Somalian Refugee Finds Connections in Seattle Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648705/7648706" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Somalian Refugee Finds Connections in Seattle Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648705/7648706" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Democrats Seek Consensus on War Funding February 28, 2007 • Most, if not all, of the Democrats in the Senate want the war in Iraq to be over. Some want U.S. troops to be withdrawn immediately, if not yesterday. Yet, when pressed, many of them also plan to vote to continue funding the war. That makes a consensus — and a strategy — hard to find. Democrats Seek Consensus on War Funding Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648714/7648715" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Democrats Seek Consensus on War Funding Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648714/7648715" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Religion Jesuit College Fights for Public Money in Missouri February 28, 2007 • A fight over using public money for a Catholic university is now before the Missouri Supreme Court. The case involves Saint Louis University, which wants $8 million in public money for a basketball arena. Jesuit College Fights for Public Money in Missouri Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648736/7648737" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Jesuit College Fights for Public Money in Missouri Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7648736/7648737" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Opinion Political Junkie From Mea Culpa to Mayor Daley February 28, 2007 • Ex-Sen. John Edwards is one of several Democratic candidates for president apparently vying to be Apologizer in Chief for their 2002 vote on the Iraq war. Plus: Chicago's Mayor Daley wins re-election ... again.
Analysis Analysis Political Junkie: Gore's Oscar, Vilsack Out, Iraq February 28, 2007 • Political editor Ken Rudin talks about Al Gore's Oscar win, Tom Vilsack bowing out of the presidential race, and the politics of Iraq. Political Junkie: Gore's Oscar, Vilsack Out, Iraq Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7644575/7644580" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Political Junkie: Gore's Oscar, Vilsack Out, Iraq Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7644575/7644580" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Law Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths February 27, 2007 • Excited delirium is a controversial diagnosis increasingly used by medical examiners to explain why people die suddenly in police custody. Taser International has used the diagnosis successfully to defend itself in wrongful-death cases in which its stun guns were also used. Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7622314/7627359" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7622314/7627359" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
House Democrats Split on Murtha's Iraq Plan February 26, 2007 • After passing a nonbinding Iraq resolution before the recess, the House considers its next step. But the plans of a key subcommittee chairman, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), to impose restrictions on war funding have yet to win approval of the Democratic leadership. Republicans say Murtha's plan is part of the Democrats' cut-and-run philosophy House Democrats Split on Murtha's Iraq Plan Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608434/7608435" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
House Democrats Split on Murtha's Iraq Plan Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608434/7608435" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Chicago's City Vote Includes Four Former Felons February 26, 2007 • Ex-felons, and their hopes for redemption, will be on the ballot in Chicago Tuesday, when voters will elect a mayor and other city officials. Four former aldermen who were convicted on public corruption charges while in office have campaigned for their old jobs in an attempt to resurrect their political lives. Chicago's City Vote Includes Four Former Felons Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608420/7608423" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Chicago's City Vote Includes Four Former Felons Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608420/7608423" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Analysis Analysis Daley Set to Measure Up to His Father's Legacy February 26, 2007 • On Tuesday in Chicago, Richard M. Daley is widely expected to win his fifth full mayoral term in office. If he does, he could break his father Richard J. Daley's record and become the city's longest serving mayor on Christmas Day 2010. For some, the question is what legacy the son will leave for Chicago. Daley Set to Measure Up to His Father's Legacy Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608425/7608426" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Daley Set to Measure Up to His Father's Legacy Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608425/7608426" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Race Sharpton-Strom Tie Shows the Power of Research February 26, 2007 • The revelation that an ancestor of Rev. Al Sharpton was a slave owned by an ancestor of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond has highlighted the growing field of genealogy. Tracing family history is a challenge for many African-Americans who are the descendants of slaves. Sharpton-Strom Tie Shows the Power of Research Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608389/7608390" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Sharpton-Strom Tie Shows the Power of Research Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608389/7608390" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
National Death by Excited Delirium: Diagnosis or Coverup? February 26, 2007 • A growing number of people in police custody are dying of a controversial diagnosis termed "excited delirium." Doctors believe the condition exists, and medical examiners nationwide recognize excited delirium as a cause of death. But civil-rights groups are furious, calling it a made-up phrase meant to absolve police of abuse. Death by Excited Delirium: Diagnosis or Coverup? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608386/7608387" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Death by Excited Delirium: Diagnosis or Coverup? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/7608386/7608387" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
