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2096 episodes transcribedAs 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...
Nine months after admitting to sexual misconduct with multiple women, Louis C.K. dropped into a New York City comedy club unannounced and tried to mak...
When Democrats lost almost every race in Missouri in 2016, their party decided it needed to do something drastic. But the path they chose may have cre...
Weeks before the midterm elections, moderate and progressive Democrats in Missouri are grappling with what the party stands for and who gets to define...
As the Democrats fight to reclaim control of Congress, the House seems to be headed in one direction, the Senate in the other. With three weeks to go...
On the night of Oct. 20, 2014, a white police officer shot a black teenager 16 times. It took nearly four years for the case to make it to trial. It t...
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has promoted himself to the West as a reformer determined to create a more free and open society. That image is unraveling...
Across the country, the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh has set off a highly personal debate among women about credibility and culpability....
