The United States Senate skipped dinner to undo Washington DC's new crime bill. For many Russians, Vladimir Putin's full-scale innovation of Ukraine also felt like an attack on their own country's future. Why Congress and even the President took it upon themselves to govern the nation's capital for the first time in over 30 years.
DC is baby.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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