Governor Pritzker’s State of the State Speech
Governor JB Pritzker's annual State of the State and Budget address live coverage and analysis.
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Interviewing Abraham Lincoln (GPT)
A dialogue with GPT-4 (voiced by an Abraham Lincoln intepreter).
Best of: Author Elizabeth Mitchell on Civil War-era “fake news”
We revisited a conversation about how a damaging hoax published by newspapers almost brought down the Union during the Civil War, and how hoaxes persist today with the author of "Lincoln's Lie."
Best of: The free press vs. the west wing
As long as there have been presidents of the United States, there have been presidents complaining about their coverage in the press. We revisit a conversation with an author about the relationship between the free press and the west wing from the early years of American history.
One man’s re-entry charts a path for more formerly incarcerated people to buy homes
First Followers co-founder James Kilgore says the group is now developing a new model for helping clients own their own homes.