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Post Reports

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.

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.

 

#1685

Trump’s plan to take over Greenland

President Donald Trump has wanted to make Greenland a part of the United States since his ... more

Yesterday

21 MINS

21:18

Yesterday


#1684

Know your rights: Protesting and traveling in the U.S. as a noncitizen

From [New York] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/03/15/mahmoud-khalil-columb... more

Yesterday

25 MINS

25:55

Yesterday


#1683

Why Elon Musk cares so much about a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat

Conservative judicial candidate Brad Schimel and Democratic-backed judge Susan Crawford ar... more

31 Mar 2025

23 MINS

23:07

31 Mar 2025


#1682

Why Bob Woodward worries about Trump's America

What does Bob Woodward think of all this? Colby Itkowitz poses that question to the renown... more

28 Mar 2025

24 MINS

24:12

28 Mar 2025


#1681

Will the Dodgers break baseball? And other Opening Day questions.

Baseball is back – and so are the sport’s existential questions, both on and off the field... more

27 Mar 2025

22 MINS

22:45

27 Mar 2025


#1680

The IRS is in turmoil. Taxpayers are taking notice.

With just a few weeks to go until Tax Day, Treasury Department and IRS officials are predi... more

26 Mar 2025

24 MINS

24:08

26 Mar 2025


#1679

The fallout from the Signal leak

A Tuesday hearing had been previously scheduled for senior Trump administration officials ... more

25 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:29

25 Mar 2025


#1678

Why is Trump so obsessed with Canada?

Whether you consider it an odd joke, a national security threat or a negotiating tactic, T... more

24 Mar 2025

21 MINS

21:30

24 Mar 2025


#1677

Uzo Aduba on creating a White House murder mystery

White House reporter Cleve Wootson interviews Uzo Aduba today on “Post Reports” about the ... more

21 Mar 2025

17 MINS

17:41

21 Mar 2025


#1676

Trump's biggest clash with the courts yet

President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act last week [kicked off a battl... more

20 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:36

20 Mar 2025


#1675

The influencer administration

Since Trump’s second inauguration, there has been a firehose of news out of the White Hous... more

19 Mar 2025

29 MINS

29:20

19 Mar 2025


#1674

Israel shatters the ceasefire with Hamas

More than 400 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in Tuesday’s attacks, according... more

18 Mar 2025

16 MINS

16:12

18 Mar 2025


#1673

Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants. Was it legal?

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump invoked a [seldom-used wartime powers act] (https... more

17 Mar 2025

16 MINS

16:16

17 Mar 2025


#1672

Dems' shutdown discord, a tariff backlash and Elon Musk

Democrats are bristling at [the decision by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer] (https:/... more

14 Mar 2025

35 MINS

35:58

14 Mar 2025


#1671

Dr. Oz goes to Washington

Mehmet Oz is President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid S... more

13 Mar 2025

18 MINS

18:51

13 Mar 2025


#1670

DOGE’s PR crisis

For weeks, Americans have watched as Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service have slashed at t... more

12 Mar 2025

16 MINS

16:23

12 Mar 2025


#1669

The ICE arrest of student activist Mahmoud Khalil

Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil helped organize protests at the university agains... more

11 Mar 2025

15 MINS

15:57

11 Mar 2025


#1668

Is Trump leading us into a recession?

In an interview broadcast on Sunday, President Donald Trump [declined to rule out] (https:... more

10 Mar 2025

20 MINS

20:23

10 Mar 2025


#1667

A message from Martine

Our beloved senior host, Martine Powers, is stepping away from the microphone for a bit to... more

08 Mar 2025

05 MINS

05:59

08 Mar 2025


#1666

So… are we going to Mars?

As Elon Musk leads a project to drastically remake the federal government, one goal might ... more

07 Mar 2025

31 MINS

31:17

07 Mar 2025


#1665

Trump's chilling effect on medical research

The National Institutes of Health is a sprawling and complex institution that supports the... more

06 Mar 2025

20 MINS

20:15

06 Mar 2025


#1664

Trump’s defiant speech to Congress

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake breaks down the speech with senior White House corre... more

05 Mar 2025

28 MINS

28:47

05 Mar 2025


#1663

Inside Texas’s growing measles outbreak

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. It was eliminated in the Unit... more

04 Mar 2025

31 MINS

31:55

04 Mar 2025


#1662

What happened after Trump kicked Zelensky out of the Oval Office

On Friday, Zelensky and Trump met for what was expected to be a tense but uneventful meeti... more

03 Mar 2025

29 MINS

29:04

03 Mar 2025


#1661

A Trump-Zelensky blow up, a spending bill, anger at Musk

Some House Republicans are getting [nervous] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025... more

28 Feb 2025

37 MINS

37:43

28 Feb 2025