He endorsed Trump, she endorsed Harris — noteworthy because, in 2024, our brains are so broken that we can’t conceive of admiring or befriending someone with opposing politics. “In a truly ...

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Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five ...

The 2024 presidential election cycle came to a close in the early morning hours on Wednesday, capping off a wild campaign cycle with President-elect Trump projected to win the presidency and go ...

How better to thread this particular needle than with movies about American politics? Filmmakers have long been dealing with the topic of our nation’s origin story, and how our particular manner ...

NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including how close the election will be, the favorable ...

If you just ignore the political news and Wall Street, Elon Musk had an incredible week. His company SpaceX pulled off an engineering marvel on Sunday when it launched the largest, most powerful r ...

Now, in the final weeks of the campaign, researchers have just published new findings about the social lives of people who are likely to endorse using political violence, and be willing to use it ...

Perhaps the deepest learning of my college years came from rooming with someone who held radically different political views from mine. My sophomore-year roommate and I fought fiercely for the ...

More than one-quarter of college applicants have ruled out a school solely because of the political climate in its state, a new survey finds. And those concerns span the political spectrum.

There’s a lot to see when we set politics aside. This year, as another intense presidential campaign heads into the home stretch, I decided to try an experiment. I would go out and talk to ...

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