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1956 episodes transcribedAnother high-profile voting rights push has failed because it did not attract enough Republican support to reach the de facto 60-vote threshold needed...
School boards are the latest frontier in the culture wars, as incensed community members and right-wing activists protest mask mandates and anti-racis...
The Biden administration announced that the U.S. will admit vaccinated foreign travelers beginning November 8th. Also: the latest on vaccination boost...
The two senators who are forcing more negotiations over the Biden administration's multi-trillion dollar climate and social programs bill appear to ha...
The Supreme Court heard arguments for and against reinstating the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber. President Biden him...
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg tells NPR that the Biden administration is focused on resolving supply chain issues in time of the holiday...
Young voters broke for Joe Biden in 2020, but are shirking party affiliations in greater numbers than older generations. And it remains to be seen how...
The TV show Impeachment: American Crime Story dramatizes Bill Clinton's impeachment through the stories of three women at the heart of the proceedings...
Congress reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling enough to cover the government's spending for a few more months. Anemic job growth persists. Former...
Tens of thousands of Afghans have been brought to the United States but most have not yet been resettled in communities. The process is complex, with...
Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham was part of the Trump administration from the beginning and, in a conversation with Tamara Keith,...
Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen told senators that the company knows its products harm children and stoke division, but that executives...
Biden's top trade official, Katherine Tai, indicated in a Monday speech that tariffs levied against China initiated during the Trump administration wo...
In the latest installment of the Politics Podcast book club, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews Calvin University historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez abo...
Congress kept the government open but Democrats are still working out how to pass the two major pillars of the Biden agenda. And the president's appro...
An empowered conservative majority on the Supreme Court will consider a number of social and cultural issues at the heart of American life, including...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in a case from Mississippi that tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconst...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Commander of U.S. Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie tes...
Democratic Party discord threatens what amounts to nearly all of President Biden's domestic agenda, from childcare to climate. Compounding the challen...
Congressional Democrats are trying to wrap up negotiations on their reconciliation package, fund the government, and deal with the debt ceiling. But w...
