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<p>Diane Rehm’s weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live longer.</p>
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April 16, 2025
Can the courts act as a check on the Trump administration’s power? Though this question is not new, it has taken on an urgency as the case of a Maryland man accidentally deported to a prison in El Salvador has highlighted the White House’s increasingly combative stance towards the judiciary. This week Trump’s team appeared to flout a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court that said the government must “facilitate” Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. Days later, a federal court judge threatened to hold the government in contempt for “doing nothing.” “This country was built on checks and balances,” says Joan Biskupic, chief Supreme Court analyst for CNN and author of several book about our judicial system, including “Nine Black Robes.” “If we don’t have checks on what a very powerful executive branch is doing right now,” she warns, “we don’t have the same democracy we had.” Biskupic joins Diane to talk about what might come next in the legal showdown over the administration’s recent deportations and what it means for the legitimacy of the courts.
April 10, 2025
President Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/09/tariffs-stocks-bonds-markets/">announced yesterday </a>he is delaying the reciprocal tariffs he had imposed on dozens of countries for 90 days. But, he said, he is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/10/trump-china-tariffs-trade-war/">ratcheting up pressure on China</a>, which he has accused of ripping off the United States for decades. This came a week after <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5345802/trump-tariffs-liberation-day">“Liberation Day,”</a> when Trump declared a national emergency to pave the way for the most sweeping trade duties since 1910. This move had sent global markets into a tailspin and unleashed a flood of concern from the business community. Though Trump’s announcement caused an initial recovery on Wall Street, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jeff-stein/">Jeff Stein</a> warns that it might not last. Stein is the White House economics reporter at The Washington Post. He warns, “We could still very well still be flirting with a recession, we could be flirting with permanent damage to our relationship with our allies, to our credibility to get things done on the world stage.” Stein joins Diane to explain what all this chaos means for global trade, the U.S. economy and what could happen next.
April 3, 2025
Johnson & Johnson was founded in the late 1800s and grew into one of the most trusted brands in America for its baby powder, Tylenol, Band-Aids, then cutting edge pharmaceuticals. Today, the company is worth more than $380 billion. But behind the success, says investigative journalist Gardiner Harris, lies a wake of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. “These guys are incredibly intimidating,” he says of the company. “And when they don’t succeed in buying you off, which is what they have done over the decades for doctors, journalists and lawyers, they sue.” Harris is a former pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times. He has spent decades looking into the long history of lies, cover-ups and malfeasance of Johnson & Johnson. He joins Diane to talk about his new book, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647408/no-more-tears-by-gardiner-harris/">No More Tears</a>.
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