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Let’s Have a Real Conversation About Barbara Walters Seventeen leading broadcasters on her legacy and making their way in the world she made. https://www.thecut.com/article/barbara-walters-legacy.html

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Independent voters are significantly concerned about Trump’s mishandling of classified national security materials and other Trump affronts to the rule of law. 61% say they want the various Trump investigations to continue.

And while Trump Republicans claimed that the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago would energize their own base, it ended up energizing the Democratic base even more.

Also, Democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap with Republicans over the 2022 midterm elections. That’s most likely a result of the reaction to the GOP-dominated US Supreme Court’s overturning the constitutional right to abortion.

Of course all the polls in the world don’t mean anything unless we all turn out to vote this autumn.

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By Frederick H. Decker

Common Dreams

Nov. 29, 2023

National news media often broadcast misinformation when discussing the debt of the United States government, erroneously targeting Social Security as the main culprit whether intentionally or from genuine ignorance.

The coverage of the federal debt by news media generally considered credible often mirrors, unfortunately, the falsehoods heard from Republican lawmakers in blaming Social Security as a major driver of the federal debt. Such misleading news coverage was embedded in a recent segment aired during the week of Thanksgiving on the PBS NewsHour, which is an hour I watch regularly to typically be informed by sound journalism. But in the segment at issue here, I witnessed misinformation broadcast to the public that could shape public opinion into thinking, quite erroneously, that Social Security needs gutting because it is the culprit increasing the federal debt. It isn’t.

This particular segment on the federal debt on PBS NewsHour was introduced on Tuesday November 21 by coanchor Amna Nawaz stating how the “U.S. government remains open this Thanksgiving week, thanks to a temporary funding deal Congress passed last week.” But when that temporary funding starts expiring in January, Nawaz added, “conservatives are signaling they won’t pass another funding deal without addressing a bigger issue, the swelling U.S. national debt.”

Then coanchor Geoff Bennett and correspondent Lisa Desjardins, standing before a screen with varying charts, discussed the growing interest paid on the federal debt. As Desjardins put it, “just the interest on our debt is so large [in the past year] that it is almost [the size of} the entire Department of Defense budget.” That statement may be true, but that was not the punchline of the segment.

Social Security hasn’t reduced available general revenue nor been the reason why politicians are not funding programs for younger constituencies.

The NewsHour segment ended mirroring the Republican Party’s mantra that Social Security is the major driver of the federal debt. As Desjardins concluded “the three largest drivers of the debt are in reality” Social Security, Medicare, and interest on the debt, with each in the chart displayed indicated as accounting respectively for 21.2%, 12.9%, and 10.5% of total federal expenditures. Desjardins added, “Really what’s happening here is Congress is not addressing the big drivers of the debt at all.”

In a recent piece with misinformation embedded in its title alone, “Why We’re Borrowing to Fund the Elderly While Neglecting Everyone Else,” columnist Catherine Rampell also implied that borrowing to fund Social Security benefits will, as she wrote, “continue to crowd out future spending obligations in years ahead” on programs for the young like “pre-K, or child care, or paid parental leave, or a more generous child tax credit.”

One problem in such depictions exemplified by the NewsHour and in Rampell’s article is that Social Security, specifically, is funded almost exclusively by its own revenue source. Not by borrowing, as Ms. Rampell implies without providing supportive evidence for that contention (because there isn’t any). Nor funded by general revenue as likely many believe when seeing typical charts on federal spending (like that shown in the segment aired on PBS NewsHour) that include Social Security expenditures, which are not at all funded by general revenue but, rather, by its separate targeted payroll and income taxes.

Actually, as I have written about previously, Social Security is today the entity owning the most debt, $2.7 trillion in Treasury securities (Monthly Treasury Report, Table 6, Schedule D as of October 31, 2023). More than the two foreign governments owning the most U.S. debt, Japan today owning U.S. securities valuing $1.1 trillion and China with under $1 trillion.

Surpluses in Social Security revenue by law have to be invested in U.S. securities. And revenue surpluses have over the years been the norm in the program. Thus, Social Security for years, in essence, funded the debt with its surplus revenue, not caused it.

Social Security hasn’t reduced available general revenue nor been the reason why politicians are not funding programs for younger constituencies as Ms. Rampell alludes to in her piece. Tax cuts during the Trump and Bush administrations, however, did help do that. Growth in deficits and debt, as analysis by the Center for American Progress indicates, has largely been driven by those tax cuts. Tax cuts reducing general revenue applicable to programs like the earlier expanded child tax credit that, before expiring, lifted more children out of poverty.

The Social Security program has nevertheless, according to reports by the Board of Trustees overseeing the program, recently incurred shortfalls in its dedicated revenue stream. In 2022, a 4% shortfall noted in the trustees’ current report (Table II.B1, page 7). And those recent shortfalls have been met simply by just cashing in some U.S. securities the program acquired over the years with revenue surpluses.

But true enough, within current parameters of the program, the trustees predict the program’s reserves (i.e., securities) will be depleted by 2033. Then relying solely on Social Security’s separate tax revenue, it is predicted only 77% of benefits due will be payable. That’s not being totally broke, but it would have an adverse effect on the income many elderly depend upon.

Raising the Social Security retirement age to purportedly reduce costs also has adverse effects that, as I discussed earlier, the Congressional Research Service among others have outlined. For one, among those of lesser means who also on average have lower life expectancies, increasing the retirement age would reduce their lifetime Social Security benefits collected disproportionately relative to reductions among higher income earners with typically longer life expectancies. Increasing the retirement age would, furthermore, disproportionately harm those retiring early due to work-related health impairment suffered most prevalently in blue-collar occupations.

A different option some propose to increase revenue is eliminating the cap on the income subject to the Social Security payroll tax. In 2024 the limit on income taxed will be $168,600. Income above that limit would not currently be taxed.

However Social Security is made solvent for the future, one thing is quite clear. Social Security has not been the reason for incurred and increasing U.S. debt.

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“The discovery of 215 bodies buried in unmarked graves behind a jail outside of Jackson, Mississippi, has left a community in disbelief. The families are angry they were never notified of the deaths and how their loved ones are buried in graves marked by just a metal rod and a number. Amna Nawaz discussed the disturbing details that have emerged with Bettersten Wade and attorney Ben Crump.”

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Jan 9, 2024

An Ohio woman faces criminal charges after she had a miscarriage. Brittney Watts was 22 weeks pregnant, and her pregnancy had been deemed non-viable just days earlier, when she miscarried in the bathroom of her home. Two weeks later, she was arrested on charges of felony abuse of a corpse for how she handled the remains. Amna Nawaz discussed the case with Mary Ziegler....

And I think Brittany Watts' case is remarkable in a couple of ways. There's a history, as the group Pregnancy Justice has documented, of laws criminalizing the actions of pregnant patients, particularly usually actions that were taken by low-income people, people of color, particularly substance abuse, sometimes of illegal drugs, sometimes of legal drugs like alcohol.

You almost never, or, to my knowledge, never see a prosecution of someone like Brittany Watts. Everyone has conceded that this pregnancy was already nonviable when the actions she took that have led to charges began. So this is, I think, both a continuation of a trend, but also an acceleration of a trend. This is something we haven't seen much before.

More context here (CNN)

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by Ricki Hollander

PBS Newshour continues to present one-sided coverage of the Hamas-Israel war, interviewing pro-Hamas propagandists with no Israeli representatives to counter them. (See: “Hamas Propaganda by Doctors Without Borders, Courtesy of PBS NewsHour”) The latest example is its Dec. 26, 2023 episode featuring former PA spokeswoman Nour Odeh to discuss recent events.  (View clip here.)

After reciting the (unconfirmed) casualty statistics put out by Hamas –‘the death toll in Gaza is nearing 21,000, mostly women and children according to Palestinian officials” – interviewer Amna Nawaz questioned Odeh about “the proposed peace plan put forward yesterday by Egypt and Qatar” which “essentially calls for the phased release of hostages held by Hamas and also Palestinians held by Israel, and for a united technocratic Palestinian government# that would oversee Gaza and the West Bank.”

Odeh responded that she is “puzzled that the Egyptians would also include negotiations with Israel and the U.S. really on the internal Palestinian issue of who governs and how” and made clear her position that Hamas should continue to play a role in governing the Palestinians, that Israel should have no say in the matter and that the world should just accept it.

“…[Hamas] remains part of the political scene because that’s inevitable. There’s no way that Hamas is going to cease to exist…And everyone has to come to terms with that…What kind of role would Hamas have in the wider political context in the Palestinian political scene, these are things that Palestinians need to agree on and that, quite, frankly, the world has to come to terms with, because if this veto on who can — who is an acceptable Palestinian political player continues, then there is more of a chance that this war will continue…”

In answer to the interviewer’s question about Israel’s insistence that Hamas be eradicated and no longer play a role in Palestinian governance as a prerequisite to peace, Odeh responded that “it should not be up to the Israelis.”

Odeh promoted a Hamas role for the governance of Palestinians, insisting that Hamas plays a large role in the West Bank as well and “in exile” and that the Palestinians “need to be able to come up with a formula…that can be functional and inclusive and representative…in order for dialogue about ending the occupation and the root cause of all this misery…”

Neither the interviewer nor any Israeli representatives pointed out that such a peace plan would necessarily entail the eradication of the Jewish state,  which Hamas has repeatedly made clear is its mission and the reason it has widespread Palestinian support. 

Instead, Nawaz moved on to question Odeh about “the displacement of Palestinians,” pointing to an opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post by an Israeli geologist about “Why moving to the Sinai peninsula is the solution for Gaza’s Palestinians”. This served as an invitation for another rant by Odeh demonizing Israel:

“I think that the Israelis are more comfortable talking about a potential atrocity crime, as experts of international law have warned.  In my opinion, this was the plan all along, starving a population, depriving them of food and water, destroying the infrastructure, breaking down the health system, making sure that the region occupied now is basically uninhabitable, and pushing the majority of the population into a small, tiny portion at the Egyptian border. It was all meant to kind of nudge the population, if not outright forcibly expel it, into the Sinai. And now they’re more comfortable saying that, probably because they haven’t really had any pushback about all the other violations of international law that have been committed for over 80 days now.”

There was no Israeli representative to counter Odeh.  Instead, Nawaz at this point asked:

“Israel, I must put to you, will say that this has all been about national security, that October 7th changed everything. The steps  that they’re taking now is to make sure that horrific day never happens again.  What would you say to that?”

PBS producers should have been familiar with Odeh’s refusal to condemn Hamas’ atrocities on Oct. 7th, the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. They could easily have known that Odeh’s response to  Hamas’ savagery and genocidal rhetoric is to deflect from Hamas to blame and demonize Israel. Her posts on X/Twitter on October 7th did just that, insisting that what had happened was “not about Hamas” but about “a moment in history that reflects just how deadly this untenable situation is, the cost of international failure & double standards & the cost of racist & irresponsible apathy to Palestinian rights & lives.”  PBS producers might have predicted that she would turn immediately to demonizing Israel, as she did on October 7th:

 “All the news that has been ignored about Israeli settler pogroms, settler raids of AlAqsa, the 🇮🇱 gov’s erasure of Palestine & the Palestinians, the choking inhumane siege of Gaza, the silencing & maligning of pro-justice & pro-Palestine voices worldwide – they are inescapable.” 

Odeh compared Hamas’ barbaric actions to those of Ukrainians defending themselves from Russia’s brutal aggression and continued to condemn Israel as the root cause.  For example, her posts on October 7th included:

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Amna Nawaz: Let me ask you, if I may, let me ask you about a specific concern your family has expressed in the past, which is your controversial views on vaccines and being part of the anti-vaccine movement. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Well, what are my views on vaccines? Amna Nawaz: Well, you have said previously that no vaccine is safe or effective, which is… Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: I have never said that. Amna Nawaz: You did say that in a podcast interview in July. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: No, I never said that. Amna Nawaz: You did say that. There are quotes, and that recording is there. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: You are wrong. And you're making something up. Amna Nawaz: On FOX News, you said that you still believe in this idea that vaccines can cause autism, which has long been debunked.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: But now you're changing the subject. What you said was a lie. Amna Nawaz: No, sir. I'm asking about your views on vaccines.

A supercut of multiple interviews where RFK Jr. says vaccines cause autism. That is not true.

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Long before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, researchers noticed a link between women having abortion access and a reduced risk of violence from men. In the wake of the court's decision, the opposite is happening and abortion restrictions have led to a significant uptick in intimate partner violence. Amna Nawaz discussed more with NewsHour health reporter Laura Santhanam.

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Amna Nawaz:Long before the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to an abortion, researchers noticed a link between women having abortion access and a reduced risk of violence from men.Now, in the wake of the court's decision, the opposite is happening, both anecdotally and in the data. Abortion restrictions have led to a significant uptick in intimate partner violence. The National Domestic Violence Hotline reports seeing nearly 100 percent increase in calls.Our health reporter, Laura Santhanam, spoke to experts about this for a recent story on our Web site.She joins me now.Laura, it's good to see you.

Laura Santhanam:Great to see you.

Amna Nawaz:So, you have been talking to the experts, reporting on this disturbing trend.

Laura Santhanam:Yes.

Amna Nawaz:What are they telling you right now.

Laura Santhanam:So, each year, roughly 12 million people are affected by domestic violence in the U.S.And part of what perpetuates that violence are control, isolation of victims by the abusers. When we saw overnight in many places the loss of access to nearby abortions just evaporate, people began to suffer. And we're seeing preliminary data, anecdotal evidence that suggests that all of the warning signs that we were hearing about before Dobbs came down are starting to materialize.

Amna Nawaz:And, Laura, the National Domestic Violence Hotline says 100 percent increase in calls. What does that mean?

Laura Santhanam:There's so much need going on right now.And it's coming through the hot line and in many places. Right now, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is hearing more than 3,000 calls per day, on average. And that's the highest volume that they have seen ever since they were established in 1996, right?So it's just — it's this massive uptick. And there's definitely just, again, preliminary evidence pointing to Dobbs making things worse.

Amna Nawaz:And you spoke to a woman named Crystal Justice from the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Here's what she had to say.

Crystal Justice, National Domestic Violence Hotline:After the Dobbs decision, we knew that we were going to be hearing from survivors all over the country who were going to need critical support to talk about the abuse they were experiencing, to talk about the fears that they were feeling, that now their access to reproductive health care has essentially been removed.And I think, Laura, it's really important to say that an abusive partner will use any tool in their toolbox to exert power and control over their victim.

Amna Nawaz:Laura, when it comes to tools in that toolbox, experts told you about an increase in something called reproductive coercion. What does that mean? And what does that look like in real life?

Laura Santhanam:Reproductive coercion is a form of domestic violence that we're hearing more about, especially after Dobbs. What that means is an abuser could sabotage contraception, could intercept birth control, could otherwise just hinder a person's ability to control their own — have control over their own body. In my reporting, I came across a story of a woman who was in an abusive relationship and could not leave her home, but she could receive birth control. She got it through the mail and was able to keep control over that much of her life, until her abuser discovered that she was receiving her birth control through the mail. He began intercepting her mail, got her birth control. Eventually, she became pregnant, and she was in a state where she could not access abortion. She also didn't have the financial wherewithal to go somewhere else where she legally could. So, that — and that terrible story, it's not a one-off. According to experts who I have been talking to, it's happening again and again and this country. And it's getting worse after Dobbs.

Amna Nawaz:The stories are so alarming and so disturbing, but what is the data showing? What do the numbers say about this right now?

Laura Santhanam:It takes time to get the big federal data sets.But what we're seeing in things like the National Domestic Violence Hotline is a nearly 100 percent increase in these calls about reproductive coercion alone. The experts there also told me that they have seen more than 20,000 calls related to nonconsensual sex. So, that gives you a sense of, like, how these power dynamics are being manipulated and used, and people who are losing access to one thing to keep them — to give them some distance from their abusers.

Amna Nawaz:Laura, people will hear all this and wonder, what should I do if I need help? What if someone I know needs help? What can we tell them?

Laura Santhanam:Well, help is available? The National Domestic Violence Hotline number is there. It's available 24 hours a day. It's 800-799-SAFE. You can chat at thehotline.org, or you can text START. That's 88788, that it's, again, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week across the country. They're there to help make safety plans, find resources, figure out how you can get from a terrible situation to something hopefully better.

Amna Nawaz:That is our health reporter, Laura Santhanam.Laura, thank you so much.

Laura Santhanam:Thank you.

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PBS Newshour | Faith Leaders Discuss How Their Religions Approach the Divisive Issue of Abortion

While many say the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is the answer to decades of prayer, some faith leaders fear their religious rights will be infringed amid new abortion restrictions. Amna Nawaz spoke with three faith leaders about how their religions approach the issue of abortion.

Transcript Available Here

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The report by "The Journal of the American Medical Association" found that, from 2019 to 2020, there were 4,535 deaths among pregnant women and new mothers. That was up from 1,588 deaths pre-pandemic.”

A recent study found a disturbing rise in deaths among pregnant women and new mothers during the pandemic, and not just because of complications from pregnancy and childbirth. Native American women faced the greatest risk as they were three-and-a-half times more likely to die compared to white women. Amna Nawaz spoke with Jessica Whitehawk to better understand what’s driving this increase.

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Amna Nawaz:A recent study found a disturbing rise in the number of deaths among pregnant women and new mothers during the pandemic, and not just because of complications from pregnancy and childbirth.The report by "The Journal of the American Medical Association" found that, from 2019 to 2020, there were 4,535 deaths among pregnant women and new mothers. That was up from 1,588 deaths pre-pandemic. Native American women faced the greatest risk by far during this period. They were three-and-a-half times more likely to die than white women.To better understand what's driving this increase, I recently spoke with Jessica Whitehawk, the founder of the Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center on the Yakama Nation Reservation in Washington state.Jessica Whitehawk, welcome to the "NewsHour." And thank you for joining us.Let's just begin with, knowing what about maternal care for Native women going into the pandemic, did you expect to see these kinds of increases?Jessica Whitehawk, President and Founder, Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center: Yes, when we went into the pandemic, our team knew that there was going to be a lot of issues that were going to be revealed and intensified.But we didn't quite understand until it started — until we started seeing it now, what it actually was going to be. But we did anticipate it, yes.

Amna Nawaz:Tell me why. Why did you anticipate that increase going in?

Jessica Whitehawk:For many years, and, historically, we have had really high infant and maternal mortality rates.And as public health crisis such as a pandemic happens, we know that, in general, that the populations that are already struggling were going to struggle even more. And so that's — that was a fear that we had when the pandemic began.

Amna Nawaz:So tell us about those struggles. What does prenatal and postnatal care look like for most of the women that you serve?

Jessica Whitehawk:For most of the women that we serve, they are experiencing health care through federally qualified health care systems, which have very limited office visit time, and the care that's provided is subpar.During a prenatal visit, they often only have three to seven minutes per visit, which isn't enough time to be able to ask questions and understand what's going on with your body or even for a doctor to understand what complications or what additional things are needed beyond prenatal care.

Amna Nawaz:And, Jessica, I found it interesting, in the report, they found pregnant and recently pregnant Black women also faced an increased risk. Their odds of death were double those of white women in this period they were looking at.When you look back to the pandemic, it really laid bare a lot of the structural racism that exists in our health care system. Did you see that among the population of Native women you serve as well?

Jessica Whitehawk:Absolutely.There was structural racism there before. And, as the pandemic began, it really opened those cracks in a way that revealed numbers that cannot be ignored.

Amna Nawaz:We know pregnancy is a time of enormous stress on the body.But there were all these other causes of death not linked to pregnancy or complications from that itself, Native women five times as likely to die in car accidents during or after the pregnancy, three times as likely to die of drug overdoses or homicide, four times as likely to die by suicide.In your role trying to support these women, where do you even begin? How do you address all this?

Jessica Whitehawk:A lot of the reasons why this is happening is very historical.Violence against Native American women has taken place since the inception of America. This has not changed over time.We still have very high missing and murdered indigenous people rates.We are in — still in a battle with this type of violence.What our organization does and what we believe are the values is that, when you rebuild community and support for each other and start getting access to high-quality care, support through other women, support through culture, support through language and rebuilding our nationhood, that that's the way that we want to address all of these numbers and the things that we're seeing.

Amna Nawaz:Jessica, as you know, maternal health is really a mix of social factors, economic factors, a lot of things.But it's widely seen as a key indicator in overall social well-being. When you look at these latest numbers, what does that say to you about that?

Jessica Whitehawk:It's scary.I feel — I feel that this is — it is absolutely our life givers are the people that determine the foundation for our future. As we continue to build these systems that are grounded in community and continue to support through culture and healing, that these numbers will improve.But this is going to take a long time to fix. It's taken a long time to get here, and it's going to take a lot of work and a long time to fix.

Amna Nawaz:That is Jessica Whitehawk of the Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center in Washington state.Jessica, thank you for your time.

Jessica Whitehawk:Thank you.

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As the fall semester begins at colleges and universities across the country, students, parents and higher education health officials are grappling with how to navigate new restrictions after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Amna Nawaz spoke with Bayliss Fiddiman of the National Women's Law Center about how the post-Roe landscape impacts students and their choices as they go back to school.

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Ukraine Marks Independence Day As Russia Strikes Civilian Targets 

🎬  PBS NewsHour  |  8/24/2022  |  ⏱️ 9’46”span / 10K views 

A Russian attack on a train station in Ukraine killed more than a dozen people and left 50 others wounded. 

The attack coincided with Ukraine's Independence Day and came exactly 6 months after the start of the war. 

Amna Nawaz takes a look back at the brutal fight already waged — speaks with Keir Giles of Chatham House about what's next in the conflict.

Watch PBS NewsHour on YouTube  ▶️  https://youtu.be/zYjtUrmfW3k

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'I did not feel like a human': Brittney Griner tells NPR about detention in Russia

May 6, 2024 "Griner has now written a new memoir, Coming Home, in which she recounts being mentally and physically humiliated by guards, of the constant pain from squeezing her 6-foot-9 frame into cramped beds and cage, and cutting her locs because it was so cold that her hair literally froze."

12-Minute Listen Interview Highlights https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1248750802/brittney-griner-memoir-book-russia-wnba-basketball

Joy Reid on Brittney Griner: ‘All of the things which made her popular, made her a target’

May 6, 2024 #brittanygriner#Interview#russia

Joy Reid, host of "The Reidout" on MSNBC joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to preview her sit down interview with WNBA superstar Brittney Griner who spoke with Reid about her arrest and detainment in Russia. 

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Brittney Griner details 10-month detainment in Russia

'You don't feel like a human,' Brittney Griner describes her life in Russian confinement

May 6, 2024 She went from being the center of attention on professional basketball courts to the center of a global power struggle. Two years after she was first detained in Russia, Brittney Griner is sharing new details about her time held captive and the fight to free her. Amna Nawaz met up with Griner to discuss that and her new book, “Coming Home.”

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During the pandemic, lawmakers dramatically, but temporarily, expanded the social safety net, including more money for families with children. The impacts of those changes are still being felt and debated to this day. Amna Nawaz and producer Sam Lane report on that for our series, America’s Safety Net.

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May 9, 2024

As schools grapple with how to keep students off their cell phones, one Connecticut school took a blunt approach. In Manchester, Illing Middle School requires students to lock phones in a pouch until the end of the day. It comes as lawmakers in at least half a dozen states are pushing their schools to curb phone use. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Illing assistant principal Raymond Dolphin.

Raymond Dolphin:

So, initially, of course, our students, they had major resistance. They thought it was — they were a lot — a lot of them were very, very fearful.

What does it seem — what does it look like for me not to have access to my phone, when this device is something that, for some students, they would sleep with? And so it was a lot of fear there, a lot of frustration. But they soon adapted to it and responded very well....

If the parent wants to reach their student, they can call the main office and we can get messages to them. So you have access to your students. And the only change is that that immediate, like this-second reaction to send a text or send multiple texts is no longer there.

So, families do have to be a little bit more planned, but that opportunity still exists.

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New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including Biden’s latest State of the Union address and what lies ahead in the race for the White House.