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1806 episodes transcribedThe U.S. government and scientists remain uncertain about the exact origins of the coronavirus outbreak: transmission from animals or research lab esc...
The Docket is a new ongoing series from The NPR Politics Podcast where we examine the backstory of the laws that impact our daily life. Traffic stops...
During his first address to Congress, President Biden pushed for his party's police reform and racial justice package to be passed by May 25th, the fi...
The White House dropped half a trillion dollars in spending from Biden's infrastructure and stimulus proposal in an ongoing show of "bipartisanship,"...
Alec MacGillis' book Fulfillment tells the story of America's three-decade long economic transformation through the lens of Amazon's rise to corporate...
The left flank of the Democratic party has exerted a lot of influence over the Biden administration on issues like climate change and economic strain....
Twenty-two Republican led states are planning to roll back expanded unemployment benefits, because they say the benefits are keeping people from retur...
The court, a 6-to-3 conservative majority, has increasingly filled the legislative role abdicated by a dysfunctional Congress. And as Republican leade...
The states both have long histories of Republican control, but the two pairs of senators have taken remarkably different tactics in Congress. Arizona'...
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll out Monday reveals how Americans view race after a white police officer was found guilty of George Floyd's murder.M...
Escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence presents a new hurdle for an administration that has tried to stay laser-focused on its own legislative agenda...
The president said the country's fuel supply will return to normal soon and that there was no cause for a run on gas stations. And a consumer goods pr...
She served as the Republican Conference Chair, the third-ranking leadership position among Republicans in the House. She intends to remain in Congress...
The president's Civilian Climate Corps proposal is a reboot of a New Deal era program that employed young men to build trails, parks, and other nature...
House Republican bomb throwers Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz threw a rally at The Villages retirement community in Florida this weekend. It sh...
Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney currently sits as the third highest ranking Republican in the House, but that may not last long. She's at odds with...
Technical expertise and supply chains shortages will pose huge challenges for global manufactures hoping to manufacture coronavirus vaccines, despite...
Facebook's moderation board has upheld the company's decision to suspend Donald Trump's account because of posts expressing support for rioters, thoug...
Reeling from the political fallout after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, some liberal groups are pushing for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer...
President Biden has touted his desire to bring transformational change to American society, but his pursuit of compromise might curb what's possible o...
