Post Reports
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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.
What to know about the new bird flu outbreak
For the first time, a virulent strain of bird flu has been detected in U.S. dairy cows. Fragments of the virus have also been found in commercial milk. Today, health reporter Lena Sun shares the latest on the outbreak and why the risk to humans remains low.
Apr 29
27 min
The Campaign Moment: The GOP's Marjorie Taylor Greene problem
Elahe Izadi chats with Aaron Blake, author of the Post newsletter The Campaign Moment, and national politics reporter Colby Itkowitz. They delve into the most important political moments of this past week. Listen for these conversations most Fridays during the 2024 campaign.
Apr 26
34 min
One woman’s failed abortions led another to motherhood
A young woman in Texas desperately tried to terminate her pregnancy before ultimately choosing adoption. Today on Post Reports, how abortion restrictions and fate collided to entwine two women’s lives.
Apr 25
30 min
The mounting antiwar protests on college campuses
Today, a look inside the pro-Palestinian protests taking root on college campuses and why universities have been struggling to respond to them.
Apr 24
31 min
TikTok might get banned. For real this time.
The Senate is expected to pass a bipartisan bill that would force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the platform or face a national ban. How did Congress finally achieve consensus on this?
Apr 23
23 min
Can cities fine unhoused people for sleeping outside?
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most significant legal challenge to the rights of unhoused people in decades. On “Post Reports,” we hear from a correspondent who visited the city at the center of the debate.
Apr 22
31 min
Deep Reads: Riding the baddest bulls made him a legend. Then one broke his neck.
Rodeo stars find meaning in navigating primal forces. No one ever went harder than J.B. Mauney.
Apr 20
52 min
The Campaign Moment: Trump jurors and Biden on Israel
Elahe Izadi talks with Aaron Blake and Liz Goodwin about Week 1 of Trump’s first criminal trial, how Israel is dividing Democrats in Congress, and whether GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson’s strategy to approve aid to Ukraine could cost him his job.
Apr 19
33 min
America’s toxic tap water problem
Despite being the world’s wealthiest nation, the U.S. has communities that are still exposed to toxic tap water. Today, we hear how a city in New Mexico has struggled with high levels of arsenic in its water — and how its residents are fighting back.
Apr 18
32 min
How a narco revolt pushed a peaceful nation to the brink
A high-profile prison escape. A TV station takeover. An assault on police. Today on “Post Reports,” how powerful gangs in Ecuador pushed this historically peaceful nation to the brink and led its new president to declare war.
Apr 17
37 min
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