Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington and the campaign trail. They don't just tell you what happened. They tell you why it matters. Every afternoon.Political wonks - get wonkier with The NPR Politics Podcast+. Your subscription supports the podcast and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/politics
1806 episodes transcribedElizabeth Hinton's book America On Fire explores how aggressive policing sparked thousands of incidents of mass violence in Black communities across t...
Voting rights activists feel that they have done the work of energizing and organizing voters to care about the issue. Now, they want President Biden...
In his April address to Congress, President Joe Biden said he hoped to prove that democracy and the federal government were still capable of deliverin...
Faced with food and fuel shortages, Cubans have begun unprecedented protests against the country's communist government. President Biden's response co...
Take our survey: npr.org/podcastsurveyVice President Harris talked to NPR's Asma Khalid about the administration's path forward on their voting rights...
Take our survey: npr.org/podcastsurveyDomestic travel is surging as the country reopens, but there is still an international-sized hole in the bottom...
President Biden gave a defensive speech Thursday updating the American public on his plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan. He said that the United Sta...
Former president Donald Trump filed a lawsuit this week claiming that his rights are violated by social media bans, claims legal experts say are spuri...
Though crime rates remain well-below historic highs, assaults and murders have spiked since the pandemic began. Democrats in New York picked ex-cop Er...
More than five hundred people have been charged in what is on track to be one of the largest criminal investigations in the country's history. Now, a...
By 2040, 70% of Americans could be represented by just 30 Senators. And twice in the last two decades, a Republican president has lost the popular vot...
Chief Justice John Roberts used to be seen as a solid conservative, but as the center of conservative politics moved to the right so did the justices...
President Biden did not meet his goal of 70% of Americans having one shot of the vaccine by July 4th, and some hot spots are flaring up in red states...
Former President Donald Trump's family business and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been criminally charged by the Manha...
In a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court upheld the state of Arizona's restrictive voting laws that some argued targeted black and brown voters. Plus, the...
The Pew Research Center just released the most comprehensive analysis of the demographic breakdown of voters in 2020. We dig into the data and look at...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to wade into a major controversy over the use of bathrooms by transgender students, delivering at least a tempo...
President Biden walked back an earlier threat that he would not sign the newly announced bipartisan infrastructure deal if it did not come to his desk...
Forty years ago this month, the CDC reported on patients with HIV/AIDS in the United States for the very first time. In the years since, LGBTQIA+ Amer...
The Department of Justice announced it is suing the state of Georgia over a restrictive voting law. The move comes as the Biden administration seeks w...
