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Donald Trump is back in the White House after a brief stay at Walter Reed medical centre, and has been criticised for downplaying the effects of Covid-19 and being reckless. Associate Professor Jo… Audio

Ken Rudin offers his insights in this unprecedented time in American politics with a pinch of historical context. Audio

Donald Trump has just left hospital in Washington DC, ending a three-day treatment period after contracting Covid-19.

The US President followed through with a tweet that he would be discharged… Audio

Professor Kurt Krause joins The Panel to discuss whether President Trump could be a Covid-19 super-spreader, and the potential effectiveness or side effects of the cocktail of medications he is… Audio

US correspondent Susan Davis talks to Kathryn about the series of contradictory messages from the White House causing confusion about Donald Trump's condition. Also a look at political contingency… Audio

The Panel looks at who the 'Proud Boys' are that were given a shout out by Donald Trump during the first 2020 Presidential Debate earlier this week. The Panel speaks to Professor Paul Spoonley about… Audio

US President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden have gone head to head in the first US Presidential debate. Trump took every opportunity to interrupt Biden and infer he was stupid, while… Video, Audio

Donald Trump has asked aides to carry out unlawful acts, offering them a Presidential pardon as a “get out of jail” card, a former staffer says. Audio

As the US COVID death toll passes two hundred thousand, President Trump says it's a "shame". The Panel speaks to US correspondent Carol Ramos about the toll and heated debated about the next Supreme… Audio

David Frum is a life long Republican supporter, former speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush, who predicts the end of the Trump presidency in November. He is the bestselling… Audio

The rich and famous are fleeing Los Angeles in droves as junkies and the homeless 'walk the streets like zombies.' Caroline Graham has lived in the City of Angels since the early 1990s and says LA is… Audio

"In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism" In his recent Rolling Stone essay The Unraveling of America Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis… Audio

Pandemics brought down the greatest human empire of all time - who knew? Kyle Harper is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire, which examines the collapse of the… Audio

What does the deteriorating state of the US's relationship with China mean for the two countries, and for the rest of the world? Could the added stress of the Covid-19 pandemic tip an already fragile… Audio

Technology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Lynn to talk about how Twitter's moves to make the site more accountable and trustworthy has pitted it against Donald Trump, the students of Aotea College… Audio

The annual National People's Congress got underway in Beijing on Friday amid what state media are calling 'wartime measures'. China correspondent Nathan van der Klippe joins the show to discuss this… Audio

The Wire is regarded as one of the best drama series ever made, and a herald of the new golden age of television. Its creator and showrunner David Simon started his working life as a journalist at The… Audio

US correspondent Simon Hampton joins the panel to talk about US President Donald Trump halting funding to WHO and his increasingly erratic media briefings at the White House. Audio

The US President, Donald Trump has announced his country will be cutting funding to the World Health Organisation.

The US contributes the largest share of the W-H-O's funds, at nearly 15-percent.

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