Diane Rehm: On My Mind

WAMU 88.5

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.

5hr 39min

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The impact of Trump's tariff chaos. The Washington Post's Jeff Stein explains what it means for global trade, the U.S. economy and your pocketbooks.

April 10, 202525min 47sec24.76 MB

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After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.

May 8, 20252min 7sec2.05 MB

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Diane takes the mic one last time at WAMU. She talks to Susan Page of USA Today about Trump’s first hundred days – and what they say about the next hundred.

May 1, 202541min 46sec40.1 MB

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Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin weighs in on Trump’s defiance of court orders, DOGE’s access to private data and the Democratic response.

April 24, 202531min 12sec29.97 MB

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Can the courts act as a check on the Trump administration’s power? CNN chief Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic on how the clash over deportations is testing the judiciary.

April 16, 202535min 48sec34.37 MB

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Investigative journalist Gardiner Harris on his new book, "No More Tears." It tells the story of Johnson & Johnson, and a history of dark secrets he says endangered millions of lives.

April 3, 202544min 17sec42.52 MB

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The Atlantic's Isaac Stanley-Becker discusses the use of fear as a political tool in Trump's pressure campaigns against big law and higher ed.

March 27, 202537min 34sec36.07 MB

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Diane talks to George Vradenburg of UsAgainstAlzheimer's about the latest breakthroughs in Alzheimer's research and how those advances could be undermined by cuts to the federal government.

March 20, 202540min 4sec38.47 MB

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David Enrich of The New York Times discusses his new book, "Murder the Truth," about a growing movement to cripple the media and protect the powerful.

March 14, 202539min 17sec37.72 MB

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Political scientist Norman Ornstein weighs in on the Trump agenda, the Democrats’ response and what comes next in Washington.

March 6, 202541min 18sec39.65 MB

The impact of Trump’s about-face on tariffs

April 10, 202525min 47sec

President Trump announced yesterday he is delaying the reciprocal tariffs he had imposed on dozens of countries for 90 days. But, he said, he is ratcheting up pressure on China, which he has accused of ripping off the United States for decades.

This came a week after “Liberation Day,” 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, Jeff Stein 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.