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1653 episodes transcribedThanksgiving is going to look different for many Americans this year. As the coronavirus pandemic rages, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
After an unusually dramatic meeting of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, the state voted to certify its election results, slamming the door on y...
Democrats went into the election expecting to gain seats in the House. Instead, they lost at least eight of them. Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger spe...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President-elect Joe Biden have a long working relationship. And if republicans retain a majority in the sen...
Election experts say there is no realistic legal path for President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But his determination to proce...
Distribution of the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine could be mere months away. But how that distribution will work remains a massive logistical p...
During President Trump's first year in office, 42,000 Americans died of drug overdoses linked to heroin, fentanyl and prescription opioids. After a mi...
Data from two leading COVID-19 vaccine trials indicate they may be between 90 and 95% effective. Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientist in charge of t...
Former President Barack Obama talks with NPR's Michel Martin about his time in office, President Trump's pandemic response, the 2020 election and what...
The U.S. is entering the worst of the pandemic. For many, pandemic fatigue set in months ago. Others are struggling anew with cases spiking dramatica...
President Trump's refusal to engage in any meaningful national security transition is dangerous, say two former national security officials. Kori Scha...
The governors of North Dakota, Ohio and Utah all delivered the same message this week: hospital resources normally used for patients with heart attack...
We know President Trump lost the election. What we don't know is what will happen between now and Inauguration Day if he refuses to accept the results...
President Trump may be on his way out, but Republicans will have to rely on his voters to hold power in the Senate. If Democrats win two runoff electi...
In 2008, then President-elect Obama and President Bush set up a join task force to help the incoming administration deal with the financial crisis the...
Early on election night, when it seemed clear that Joe Biden was underperforming with a specific group of Latino voters in the Miami-Dade County, a na...
Early data suggests 160 million people voted this year — which would be the highest turnout rate since 1900. With an unprecedented number of those vot...
The electoral college is a system unlike any other in American democracy. Why does it exist? Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah explored that questi...
NPR political correspondents Tamara Keith and Asma Khalid reflect on an election season shaped by unprecedented events: a global pandemic, President T...
Today, a bonus episode from NPR's Code Switch. For the first time in election history, Latinos are projected to be the second-largest voting demograph...
