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The campaign for Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee for Senate from Maine, imploded this week after he was accused of rape. Lisa Lerer and Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondents for The New York Times, discuss the battle over who should replace him on the ballot ...  Show more

Last Thursday, the satirical newspaper The Onion started its own version of Infowars, the infamous online hub of misinformation created by Alex Jones. The takeover has been years in the making. After Mr. Jones lost two defamation cases, his assets were put up for auction. The Oni ...  Show more

The shutdown is about to get desperately real as forty million Americans who rely on food stamps will soon be without them. Will this be an inflection point in the standoff? Plus, as MAGA insists there’s a plan to get Donald Trump a third term, he’s on board with it. Learn more a ...  Show more

40 millions Americans are facing hunger with food stamps about to expire. Trump is shrugging it off as the Democrats’ problem. As courts weigh in, Trump now says he’ll fund it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

With America on the brink of its longest government shutdown in history, Jay O'Brien reports on the steps being taken by the Trump administration to partially fund SNAP, the critical federal food assistance that's run out for 42 million people, and Whit Johnson has details on how ...  Show more

This week’s SNAP crisis is just a preview. Tucked inside the giant tax-cut and spending bill signed by President Donald Trump this summer are enormous cuts to SNAP: Who qualifies, how much they get, and who foots the bill for the program. That last part is a huge change.For the e ...  Show more