October 22, 2021
On today's Front Page: A CDC committee endorses a booster plan for all three COVID-19 vaccines, America’s top generals say a counterterrorism partnership with the Taliban is a possibility, and more.
October 22, 2021
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History As It Happens: A conversation with James Grossman of the American Historical Association
Across the country, parents are challenging school administrators over what is being taught in history classes. AHA's James Grossman joins History As It Happens host Martin Di Caro to discuss the importance of teaching "divisive concepts" about the nation's past.
October 21, 2021
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October 21, 2021
On today's Front Page: Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe is looking to to regain his footing in the race against Republican Glenn Youngkin, the state of the U.S. Space Force, and more.
October 21, 2021
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Remembering Colin Powell
The death of the soldier-statesman Colin Powell threw into relief his remarkable public career and historic times, from his humble origins in the Bronx to his place in the halls of power at the transformative close of the Cold War era. When a major figure dies, historians have to weigh the person’s influence on events, or how events shaped the individual. They must also weigh accomplishments against failures. In this episode, historian Jeffrey Engel reflects on the legacy of a man who once was one of the most respected, admired, and trusted figures in American life. Powell's legacy, however, was marred by his false and misleading presentation to the United Nations in 2003 about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction -- weapons that did not exist.
October 21, 2021
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Jeff Mordock: The view from the White House
As White House reporter Jeff Mordock reports, White House press secretary Jen Psaki came under fire this week after joking that it’s a “tragedy” some people may have to wait longer for their treadmill to arrive amid the supply-chain crisis that has disrupted global economies. Also, President Biden, Vice President Harris and Treasury Secretary Yellen met with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and other progressive lawmakers in an attempt to salvage a smaller version of the president’s $3.5 trillion social welfare and climate change bill.
October 20, 2021
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Andy Parks: The bumbling, bungling Biden team strikes again
The border is a mess, the supply chain is a mess, the vaccine mandates are a mess, the president is having dinner at a fancy Washington restaurant without a mask, the transportation secretary is busy being a new dad, Dr. Fauci continues to mislead the American people and Vice President Kamala Harris is no Condoleezza Rice. Beyond that, it was a typical week in Biden's Washington.
October 20, 2021
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October 20, 2021
On today's Front Page: Democrats are retreating from a plan to give the IRS access to bank information on customer accounts with more than $600 in annual deposits or withdrawals, lawmakers and locals are criticizing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser over her efforts to address homelessness, and more.
October 20, 2021
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Origins of ROTC
Today the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is considered an important pillar of the U.S. military establishment. ROTC programs are offered at approximately 1,700 colleges, providing enrollees a path of upward mobility in exchange for their military service and good citizenship. Yet its prosaic presence in American life hides its controversial origins. In this episode, a sliver of an important story -- the rise of militarism in early 20th century America -- illuminates a larger dilemma. For when the ROTC was proposed as part of the National Defense Act of 1916, antiwar activists joined critics of imperialism in what would amount to a failed attempt to convince Congress to kill the bill. An organized and vocal peace movement once existed in the U.S. It warned that "Prussianism" would harm the country’s youth and the education system. In extensive congressional hearings, these voices clashed with powerful forces behind the Preparedness Movement, who argued the U.S. was unready to join combat in Europe because of the desultory state of its armed forces. In this maelstrom was born the ROTC and with it a marriage between two great American institutions: the military and academia.
October 19, 2021
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October 19, 2021
On today's Front Page: Negotiations continue as the clock is ticking for President Biden to forge a consensus among Democrats on his agenda, coal-fired electricity generation has experienced an uptick in the U.S. for the first time in seven years, and more.
October 19, 2021
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October 18, 2021
On today's Front Page: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell dies of complications from COVID-19, U.S. employers are still struggling to find workers six weeks after enhanced federal jobless benefits expired, and more.
October 18, 2021
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October 15, 2021
On today's Front Page: Scores of union workers nationwide have gone on strike or threatened to walk off the job, the Justice Department is coming under pressure to provide specific reasons for a recent directive to mobilize the FBI for threats against school officials, and more.
October 15, 2021
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Stephen Dinan: Inflation brings a silver lining for Social Security benefits
Stephen Dinan has the latest on the immigration debate in the United States. But first, Stephen tells Andy about the largest cost of living increase for Social Security since 1982, when the country was still emerging from the inflationary years of the late 1970s. Advocates for Social Security said the benefit hike is desperately needed as those on fixed incomes face huge challenges making ends meet amid soaring prices. Then, we get the latest from the border, including abandoned children, raiding workplaces for illegal workers, plans for amnesty and vaccinations for border jumpers.
October 14, 2021
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October 14, 2021
On today's Front Page: The Department of Homeland Security is circulating a draft proposal that would curtail its “denaturalization” attempts, the U.S. tries to draw Iran back to the negotiating table, and more.
October 14, 2021
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How the U.S. Got Mired in the Middle East
In 1990 the U.S. possessed one military base in the Middle East, a small naval installation in Bahrain. In August of that year Iraq invaded Kuwait, and the U.S.-led response in the Gulf War would lay the foundation for the “forever wars” of our own time. The United States would establish dozens of permanent army, air, and naval bases from which it would launch attacks across the region over the next three decades. The U.S. military presence in the Greater Middle East is now so prosaic that it is easy to forget the time when our leaders avoided sending large forces into that volatile region, which was viewed as strategically less important than Europe and Asia in the early years of the Cold War. But that started changing in the late 1970s and culminated in a key decision by the Reagan administration in 1983: to establish CENTCOM. Andrew Bacevich, the president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, discusses the importance of creating CENTCOM, whose imperium covers 21 nations from Egypt east to Afghanistan.
October 14, 2021
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Andy Parks: It's beginning to look a lot like... Christmas?
Vaccine mandates, inflation, empty shelves in grocery stores. Does that sound like Christmas to you? It may be our reality this holiday season. But first, Andy takes a look at President Biden's travel, travails, plummeting poll numbers, gaffes and missteps. And a new documentary on St. Anthony Fauci sheds new light on his years of fame and shame. And are you seeing empty shelves? Cargo ships are backed up at US ports and shelves are empty. Andy says people are too happy sitting at home to come in to work.
October 13, 2021
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Narcissists fret as the Trump train rolls on
No, GOP swampers, Donald Trump is not going away. Washington Times Opinion Editor Charlie Hurt joins Andy Parks with more on Trump's rally in Iowa and his place within the party. "I wish he would spend more time on the issues... but he is a dog with a bone. He won't let the election stuff go. It's the perfect thing for him, it's like catnip." As Charlie points out, it creates ripples among the media and in Washington, but it very much advances his credibility with voters.
October 13, 2021
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October 13, 2021
On today's Front Page: The nation’s trucking industry is dealing with a massive shortage of drivers — just one of the factors contributing to a supply chain bottleneck that is driving up prices, President Biden‘s slipping poll numbers are setting off alarm bells for Democrats, and more.
October 13, 2021
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The Incompetence of Democrats Is 'Unprecedented'
For more than a year, Anthony Fauci has been the go-to guy for the government and media on all things coronavirus, and he's handled that role by recommending, advising, cautioning, chastising, warning, suggesting and hinting at all the dire things to come if we don't pay attention to his COVID-tied remarks. In other words: He's been the COVID Czar. At the same time, he acts like he doesn't have a thing to do with policy -- that he's all about the science, nothing about the politics. He's quite the deceiver. And guest Peter Navarro of former Donald Trump White House fame has much to say about the man -- including an explanation of why Fauci is "absolutely evil." Navarro's also got a new book coming out this November called "In Trump Time" that sheds even more light on the Fauci darkness.
October 12, 2021
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October 12, 2021
On today's Front Page: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has moved quickly to sign into law new regulations in the Golden State, a look at the U.S. Navy’s new Constellation class of frigates, and more.
October 12, 2021
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The Quad
China’s wave of military exercises over Taiwan, which is raising the possibility of armed conflict, is overshadowing the development of the Biden administration’s soft power approach to confronting China’s coercive economic measures in the Indo-Pacific. In late September the White House hosted the first in-person meeting of “the Quad” leaders, where the prime ministers of Australia, Japan, and India met President Biden to coordinate action on a number of fronts. Vaccine diplomacy, climate change, infrastructure, and education were on the agenda; notably absent was any talk of military action or agreements. Following the humiliating U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the alignment of the Quad is signaling a different approach to global power dynamics, at least in East Asia, even as China’s posturing toward Taiwan threatens to suck the U.S. into a potentially calamitous military confrontation. The U.S. Institute of Peace's Daniel Markey and Andrew Scobell, experts on U.S.-China relations, discuss why the U.S. cannot escape the past when it comes to Taiwan.
October 12, 2021
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