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2063 episodes transcribedLast week, we looked at the campaign of a candidate who embodied the Democratic strategy for winning the House. This week, she arrived in Washington....
Republicans, seeking to secure the party’s majority and agenda in the Senate, are determined to delegitimize the statewide recount underway in Florida...
President Trump says the nuclear threat from North Korea is over. But new satellite images of hidden missile bases suggest that the situation has only...
One of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history is raging in the north of the state, as two others burn simultaneously in th...
In this year’s midterm elections, Democrats were battling for House seats in a range of districts. We look at how the party’s leaders came up with a w...
After more than a year of mocking his attorney general, President Trump has forced Jeff Sessions to resign. The timing — only hours after the midterm...
The results are in: Democrats gained control of the House, even as Republicans strengthened their hold in the Senate. What does this mean for the next...
As the country heads to the polls, here are four themes and four races to watch. Guest: Alexander Burns, who covers national politics for The New York...
Two of the key groups that helped elect Donald J. Trump in 2016 were white women and evangelicals. Now, in the midterm elections, white women are turn...
Two years ago, news organizations including The New York Times were accused of having misled the country with voting projections. Here’s what we’re do...
A Russian news organization with ties to the 2016 election interference operation started a website called USAReally. Its stated purpose was for Ameri...
At the height of its reach, the right-wing website Mad World News was getting millions of views. We talked to its founders about how they hit upon the...
Until recently, many American Jews believed that anti-Semitism was a European problem, one the United States had left behind. But the attack in Pittsb...
The massacre in Pittsburgh was one of the worst attacks against the Jewish community in the United States in decades. The city’s mayor called it “the...
Nearly 30 million Latinos in the United States are eligible to vote, representing almost 13 percent of the American electorate. Why is so little atten...
To understand the divisions that define this year’s midterm elections, you have to go back to the midterm elections of 1994. We look at the moment whe...
Thousands of Central American migrants are moving north through Mexico, heading for the U.S. border. Republicans won’t stop talking about it, and Demo...
From the moment he was named the country’s day-to-day leader, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has disappointed the United States over and over again....
One candidate made a name for herself trying to register voters. Another rose to prominence trying to purge them from the rolls. We look at how one of...
Last week, a long-awaited report showed that the worst consequences of global warming would occur even sooner than previously thought. Here’s the stor...
