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1954 episodes transcribedDemocrats have two major pieces of unfinished business on their to-do list. They'll try, again, to reach a compromise on President Biden's signature B...
The justices are considering whether the federal mandates governing private employers and healthcare staff are constitutional. And Republicans who bac...
In a speech from the Capitol one year after the building was attacked, President Biden warned that the United States could become a nation that "accep...
As the president and his team promise more tests are coming, the omicron variant continues to drive cases to new records. While the latest wave is put...
Chief Tom Manger says that he is dealing with low morale and high turnover as the force attempts to reinvent itself in the wake of last year's attack...
The sentiment is felt most acutely by Republicans, two-thirds of whom wrongly believe that "voter fraud helped Joe Biden win the 2020 election." That'...
Miles Parks, Juana Summers, and Ayesha Rascoe are joined by Stephen Thompson of NPR Music to discuss their favorite political music of the year.Connec...
Miles Parks, Kelsey Snell, and Barbara Sprunt are joined by Aisha Harris of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast to discuss the year in political tele...
Whitney Phillips, assistant professor at Syracuse University, talks to NPR's Miles Parks about conspiracy, disinformation, and what it would take to i...
In the latest NPR Politics Book Club, Danielle Kurtzleben talks with journalist Sasha Issenberg whose book The Engagement chronicles the path of marri...
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said officials knew there would be a surge from the Omicron variant sin...
Huma Abedin has worked for Hillary Clinton for a quarter-century. In a new book, Both/And, she discusses being a prominent Muslim woman in American po...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressin...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as the president took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressin...
The Biden administration laid out his main priorities as he took office: tackling the pandemic, responding to the climate crisis, addressing racial in...
In an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the West Virginia Democrat said he would not support the Build Back Better Act, the centerpiece of President Bide...
President Biden acknowledged Thursday that the centerpiece of his agenda, a nearly-two trillion dollar social programs package known as the Build Back...
Following in the footsteps of Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat who won a seat in the House of Representatives after her son was shot and killed, gun co...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is feeling hopeful about the midterms: President Biden's approval numbers are low and inflation is at least tempo...
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol recommended that Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff under President Trum...
