Analysis

Former President Donald Trump has long made headlines with controversial comments about everything from immigration to trade, but translating those talking points isn't always easy.

What did Trump say? Explaining the former president's favorite talking points

7:00am May 11, 2024

Former President Donald Trump continues to ratchet up his rhetoric on the campaign trail, but if someone doesn't follow Trump all the time, decoding his meaning can get confusing. We're here to help.

Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?

6:30am May 07, 2024

by Greg Rosalsky

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's new book argues the road to tyranny is paved not by too much, but by too little government.

A crowd of White House press looks on as Kanye West and then-President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office on Oct. 11, 2018.

Rappers took the White House. Now what?

4:06pm May 02, 2024

by Sheldon Pearce

A new documentary, Hip-Hop and the White House, considers rap's association with presidential politics — and in so doing, reveals a persistent misunderstanding of how both operate.

After suspended Aurora Police Officer Nathan Woodyard was found not guilty on charges over his role in the death of Elijah McClain, his mother Sheneen McClain, right, and supporter MiDian Holmes joined hands and raised their fists in protest as they left a courtroom at the Adams County Justice Center, Nov. 6, 2023.

National

Reforms and heartbreak after final sentencing in Elijah McClain's death

5:00am May 01, 2024

by Allison Sherry

Three police officers and two paramedics faced felony charges in death of McClain, a young Black man not suspected of a crime. Two cops were aquitted.

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson attends a news conference at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

Politics & Government

Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers

4:31pm April 27, 2024

by Ron Elving

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.

The conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

Politics & Government

Trump's immunity arguments and the experiences of the justices who might support it

12:57pm April 26, 2024

by Nina Totenberg

Five of the six conservatives spent much of their lives in the Beltway, working in the White House and Justice Department, seeing their administrations as targets of unfair harassment by Democrats.

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Cartographic map showing squares for each of the U.S. states, sized according to the number of electoral votes that the state has, and colored by the forecasted winner of the presidential election in that state. Biden is forecasted to win 226 votes, Trump is forecasted to win 235 votes, and 77 votes are toss ups.

The states to watch on the 2024 electoral map

5:00am April 23, 2024

by Domenico Montanaro

NPR's electoral map organizes states into seven categories – Toss Up, Lean Republican, Lean Democratic, Likely Republican, Likely Democratic, Safe Republican and Safe Democratic.

The porches of the 1890s Allison Buildings, shown above in 1910, were later enclosed to provide more space for patient beds.

Could the U.S. force treatment on mentally ill people (again)?

6:30am April 16, 2024

by Greg Rosalsky

Sixty years ago, America began closing mental hospitals. A growing chorus is blaming that for the crisis of mentally ill folks living on our streets.

President Biden gestures after speaking about student loan debt relief at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisc., on Monday.

Politics & Government

Wisconsin's 'Mad City' is a rational choice for Biden's appeal to youth

5:00am April 13, 2024

by Ron Elving

It is not much of an exaggeration, if it is one at all, that college towns are to the Democrats today what factory towns were through most of the 20^th century.

J. Cole and Drake perform during the 2023 edition of Cole's Dreamville festival in Raleigh, N.C., last April. Their collaborative track "First Person Shooter" recently touched off a war of words with fellow MC Kendrick Lamar.

Music & Culture

Can rap beef exist when no one agrees on what's being fought for?

5:35pm April 11, 2024

by Sheldon Pearce

If the current conflict between J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar and Drake feels confusing, it's because the artists often hailed as hip-hop's "big three" have never played by the same rules.