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1765 episodes transcribedUnderstanding the motivation of voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania is key to understand the 2016 coalition that allowed President Trump to notch a de...
After the weekend's rally, aimed at building support among Hispanic voters, President Trump spent Monday in California hearing about disaster response...
As wildfires rage across the west, activists are noting the campaign's relative silence on the issue of climate change. Natural disasters of all sorts...
The Department of Homeland Security official says in his complaint that he was ordered to halt reports that made the president "look bad." DHS and the...
President Trump was aware of the severity of the coronavirus in early February, telling Bob Woodward that it was much more severe than the flu. In pub...
Pressed on whether he was politicizing vaccine development by suggesting that a vaccine could come before election day (very unlikely), President Trum...
In this Labor Day episode of the podcast, we hear from voters in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Pennsylvania about how they're feeling about their options in No...
Isolated bursts of violence between protesters have left at least three Americans dead. But demonstrations across the country remain primarily peacefu...
Six million Americans have been diagnosed with coronavirus and more than 185 thousand have died. Cases nationally are trending downward, but the Midwe...
Republicans' internal divisions, and divisions with President Trump, made legislating nearly impossible during Trump's first term. There's little sign...
The president is in Kenosha, Wis., today, a city that has been rocked by protests after police shot a black man several times in the back a little ove...
Biden's remarks come after several days of unrest in cities, including the shooting deaths of two protesters in Wisconsin, allegedly by an armed white...
Protests continue after police in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake repeatedly in the back on Sunday. A young white man is said to have murdered two...
President Trump accepted the nomination for a second term onstage at the White House, in front of 1500 people — where the was little social distancing...
Mike Pence formally accepted the vice presidential nomination on the third night of the Republican National Convention. As racial justice protests con...
Melania Trump gave her Republican National Convention address from the Rose Garden of "the people's house." Campaign videographers were there as Donal...
President Trump and his allies portrayed Democrats as "radical" and decried "cancel culture." The first night of the Republican National Convention at...
President Trump and the Republican party will lay out their vision for Trump's re-election all week. The NPR Politics Podcast breaks down what to watc...
The head of the United States Postal Service testified before the Senate today about controversial changes that good governance watchdogs say undermin...
Joe Biden has accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination. In his acceptance speech, closing out the convention's final night, he pledged...
