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The Summer 2024 SCOTUS Roundup

The Supreme Court is busy this summer. Before the term ends in July, the Court will decide whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal charges for actions taken while in office. It could upend over three hundred Jan. 6 prosecutions, including Trump's, in a case about obstruction. But the Supreme Court's public approval rating remains historically low. Justice Samuel Alito's refusal to recuse himself from the Jan. 6 proceeding despite the hanging of controversial flags outside h...

Jun 06, 2024•37 min

Best Of: The Psychology Of Jury Selection

It's a right guaranteed not once, but twice in our constitution – a trial by jury. And many of us are asked to serve on them, whether we want to or not. Whether jury duty is a responsibility you dread or relish, the trial of former President Trump in Manhattan put the spotlight on the jury selection process – one that happens every day in courthouses across the country. We speak with legal experts about the role juries play in our justice system – and the psychology of jury selection. We also he...

Jun 05, 2024•35 min

Unpacking The Results Of The Indian Election

The results for the biggest election in the world are now in. Incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, won a landslide victory, but with a smaller margin than expected. Since April, India conducted a multi-phased a general election with 970 million eligible voters. What does his victory mean for this country of 1.4 billion people? We discuss what another five years of Modi leadership means for the groups that he and his party have targeted, like; Indian Muslims, journalists, ...

Jun 04, 2024•33 min

'If You Can Keep It': The Historic Criminal Conviction Of Donald Trump

It's a big Monday. The first after the historic criminal conviction of Donald Trump. He's the first former or sitting president to be found guilty in a criminal trial. In his case – guilty not once, but on all 34 counts charged against him. We focus this hour on what the guilty verdict means for the GOP as well as talking about what's next for the case in the legal system. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. ...

Jun 03, 2024•33 min

The News Roundup for May 31, 2024

Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all counts in his criminal hush money trial. Israeli Defense Force missiles hit a camp of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday, igniting an inferno. And a look at election results in India and South Africa. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a . Learn more about sponsor message choi...

May 31, 2024•1 hr 25 min

Addressing Mental Health Across Cultures

For children of immigrants who are straddling two worlds, mental health can be a unique struggle. According to a 2020 study, children of immigrants had nearly double the rate of psychological distress than their immigrant parents. And this population is only growing, with one in four children in the U.S. currently being a child of immigrants. Therapy is bound by many Western ideas and rooted in whiteness. How to deal with the expectations, guilt, and dialogues of the bicultural experience can be...

May 30, 2024•32 min

Looking Back On 20 Years Of Same-Sex Marriage

In 2004 Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's Supreme Court found that their Constitution could no longer exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage rights. That watershed decision from Goodridge vs. Department of Health paved the way for LGBTQ+ rights across the country, which eventually saw same-sex marriage federally legalized in 2015. Since then, more than 700,000 same-sex couples have married across the country. But what prompted the fight fo...

May 29, 2024•32 min

The Political Power Of Theater

Between 1935 and 1939, thirty million Americans had the chance to see a play thanks to Federal Theater Project . Nearly a century later, the theater's place in American life is shrinking. Today, we look back on this one-of-kind federal project that believed in the power of theater, and we look forward to the role theater might play in upholding democracy even as the arts in America are being undermined. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Ha...

May 28, 2024•33 min

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