• Inside Houston's dramatic school turnaround
    Jul 21 2026

    Houston Independent School District has cut its number of D and F rated campuses from 121 to 17 in just two years. Superintendent Mike Miles joins Kelly Sadler to explain the New Education System behind the turnaround, including raised expectations, pay for performance, and a renewed focus on grade-level instruction.

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    23 mins
  • D.C. mayoral candidate warns Democratic Socialist sweep is a national warning sign
    Jul 23 2026

    In the race for mayor of Washington, Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George emerged as the Democratic Party's primary nominee, part of a growing trend of establishment Democrats losing ground to DSA-backed candidates with momentum and enthusiasm on their side.

    Defeated candidate Gary Goodweather calls it a warning sign for cities everywhere, and joins Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to share his own policy solutions on crime, housing, and energy that he says got drowned out by ideology.

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    30 mins
  • How to unlock the housing market before an entire generation gives up
    Jun 8 2026

    Michael Burkentine, partner with the America First Policy Institute's "Make Housing Great Again" initiative, joins Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to unpack the affordable housing crisis the U.S. is facing and what can be done to help solve it and save the American dream.

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    19 mins
  • China, faith and the new Cold War
    May 30 2026

    From Taiwan to the Strait of Hormuz to underground churches, the stakes in America's confrontation with China have never been higher.

    Ambassador Sam Brownback joins Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to assess Trump's Beijing summit and make the case for religious freedom as a strategic weapon in the new Cold War.

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    29 mins
  • Crime victim exposes Washington, D.C.'s crime stat cover-up
    May 27 2026

    Anna Giaritelli, reporter and author of "Under Assault: A Crime Reporter's True Story Overcoming Of Sexual Trauma and Exposing Injustice," joins Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler to share her own experience as a sexual assault victim whose crime was excluded from official D.C. police statistics and what she's doing to fight back.

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    21 mins
  • The hidden cost of Labubu dolls slave labor and the Uyghur genocide
    May 26 2026

    Labubu dolls are everywhere — on backpacks, in airports, in metro stations across Washington. But 16 out of 20 of those dolls are made with cotton harvested by Uyghur forced labor.

    Rushan Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, joins Kelly Sadler to expose the forced labor behind Pop Mart's Labubu dolls, detail the horrors inside China's concentration camps, and make a personal plea to President Trump.

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    27 mins
  • President Trump has more leverage over Xi Jinping
    May 15 2026

    President Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in a historic summit between the two world leaders. Scholar of China and author Gordon Chang believes, however, that when it comes to leverage, President Trump comes out on top.

    On the latest Politically Unstable, Mr. Chang sits down with Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler to discuss this meeting, plus more on threats from China.

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    20 mins
  • Fairfax County schools are broken and parents are fighting back
    May 14 2026

    Plummeting test scores, political activism in the classroom, and a school board spending a staggering $150 million on a school it doesn't need. That's just the beginning of the dysfunction parents are exposing in Fairfax County Public Schools.

    Stephanie Lundquist-Arora joins Kelly Sadler to break down the waste, fraud, and abuse plaguing one of the nation's largest — and most troubled — school districts.

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    22 mins