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2096 episodes transcribedAcross the country, Democratic candidates for governor and attorney general won seats that had long been held by Republicans. But Republican-controlle...
When China first began experimenting with capitalism in the 1980s, the West was certain the experiment would fail. But two of its assumptions — that g...
From the very beginning, the West was certain that China would not pull off its economic experiment. That certainty came from a set of assumptions abo...
George Bush rode the Reagan revolution to the White House, where he had one of the highest approval ratings of any president, and where he successfull...
President Trump’s former lawyer has pleaded guilty to lying about Mr. Trump’s business ties to Russia and has agreed to cooperate with the special cou...
Many newly elected Democrats in the House have voted to make Representative Nancy Pelosi the next speaker. But that doesn’t necessarily mean she has t...
The special counsel’s office says that Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, repeatedly lied to investigators, even after agreeing...
As large groups of Central American migrants approach the U.S. border, the Trump administration is making it more difficult for them to apply for asyl...
With the rise of online retailers like Amazon, consumers’ expectations about the speed of delivery have been transformed. A New York Times investigati...
At nearly every turn, President Trump’s own generals tried to persuade him not to deploy active-duty troops to the United States border with Mexico. S...
The killing of Jamal Khashoggi has renewed criticism of Saudi Arabia more broadly, including the kingdom’s role in the war in Yemen. It’s a war that h...
Nearly two years after being extradited from Mexico, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo, is finally facing trial in a United States...
The story of Facebook in the past few years has been that of a company slow to understand how powerful it has become. But an investigation by The New...
Last 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...
