Lucy Perkins

6 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Elana Gordon |Lucy Perkins |Maggie Penman |Sean Carter

Think you know how to take a good nap? Think again. Neuroscientist and columnist Richard Sima discusses the latest research on how to maximize the benefits. Plus, how breathing can help calm our minds. Today’s show was produced by Elana Gordon and mixed by Sean Carter. It was edited by Lucy Perkins, with help from Maggie Penman. Subscribe to The Washington Post here.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Reena Flores |Rennie Svirnovskiy |Laura Benshoff |Lucy Perkins |Sean Carter

Unpacking the political fallout from President Donald Trump’s pause on tariffs. Tariffs are on. Tariffs are paused. Tariffs are making stock markets go wild. Where do we go from here?

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Ted Muldoon |Reena Flores |Lucy Perkins

This picture, released March 16, shows the arrival of alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (AFP photo/El Salvador’s Presidency Press Office)Over the weekend, President Donald Trump invoked a seldom-used wartime powers act to deport suspected gang members without due process.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Lucy Perkins |Laura Benshoff

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake talks with Post congressional reporter Liz Goodwin and Dan Lamothe, who covers the Pentagon and the U.S. military, about the week’s political news. They dig into Trump’s sharp turn against Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. They also talk about new polling that shows Trump’s sweeping federal policy decisions are largely unpopular.

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Rennie Svirnovskiy |Peter Bresnan |Lucy Perkins

On the first day of his second term in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 days. The suspension was part of the president’s effort to slash public spending, remake the federal government and align foreign policy more closely with his “America First” agenda. And it had near-immediate consequences.