The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in BP, P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The case concerns appellate jurisdiction and whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of app…
2,573 viewsA panel of scholars talked about how suffragists, as a group, outwardly adhered to traditional ideas of marriage and heterosexuality to demonstrate the suffrage movement’s respectability, ye…
767 viewsDocumentary filmmaker Michael Kirk talked about his new PBS “Frontline” film about President-elect Joe Biden.
1,369 viewsAvril Haines, the Biden administration’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, testified at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Ms. Haines, who previo…
7,692 viewsSenate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) spoke about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and blamed President Trump for inciting the riot.
4,176 viewsProfessor Peter Laufer and student from the University of Oregon’s journalism program discussed what happened when fourth-grade students at the Riverside School in rural Oregon tried to set …
351 viewsJanice Nimura profiled Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, two of the first women to receive medical degrees in the United States. This was a virtual event hosted by Greenlight Bookstore in Brook…
425 viewsJames Monroe and George Washington shared a bond forged in the Revolutionary War. Each man would serve his country as president. But the politics of the young nation drove a wedge between th…
430 viewsThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a confirmation hearing for Antony Blinken to serve as secretary of state. Mr. Blinken was questioned about a range of foreign policy issues that i…
143,938 viewsThe Senate Finance Committee held a confirmation hearing for Janet Yellen to serve as treasury secretary. Dr. Yellen, who served as the former Federal Reserve chair during the Obama and Trum…
6,419 viewsOn July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong took mankind’s first steps onto the lunar surface with millions around the world watching. In her book Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apo…
154 viewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar marked the nearly 400,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic with a moment of remembrance and silence during his virtual farewell address to…
694 viewsLIVE feed from the White House driveway as President Trump spent his last full day in office.
12,493 viewsViewers responded to the question, “What is President Trump’s political future?” The Washington Post's Toluse Olorunnipa spoke by phone about the week ahead in Washington, including the last…
1,741 viewsIn the weekly Democratic address, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) talked about the upcoming second Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.
613 viewsThe Senate Armed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for General Lloyd Austin (Ret.) to serve as secretary of defense. Following witness statements by former Defense Secretary Leo…
7,401 viewsViewers responded to the question “What would the founders think of our Republic?”
2,068 viewsVice President-elect Kamala Harris briefly spoke to reporters after volunteering at Martha’s Table in Washington, D.C. She said Martin Luther King Jr.'s fight for racial and economic justice…
1,450 viewsThe House met for a pro forma session.
View in Congressional Chronicle8,961 viewsNevada Governor Steve Sisolak (D) gave the State of the State address in Carson City. He discussed the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling it an economic crisis. He thanked he…
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