Five races for U.S. Senate and two for governor feature a major-party nominee who, if elected, would be the first woman in their state to hold the office. Republican men stand out in views of their ...

Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright on the closing messages from Harris and Trump NPR’s Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including ...

Donald Trump has pulled off an astounding political comeback and regained the White House as he's declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He becomes the first president in ...

Can California's Prop 36 Crime Measure Fulfill Its Promises? October 25, 2024 • One of the most controversial initiatives on the California ballot this year is Proposition 36, which would roll ...

Every weekday, NPR's best political reporters are there to explain the big news coming out of Washington and the campaign trail. They don't just tell you what happened. They tell you why it matters.

Maryland’s competitive race between Republican Larry Hogan and Democratic Angela Alsobrooks has cost at least six times more than the state’s last contest for an open seat. The settlement ...

Given that, what better way to distract yourself from the doomscrolling than by binge-watching a political TV show, offering a dive into a fictional universe. From the romanticism of Aaron Sorkin ...

Bush won and blue for states that Democrat Al Gore won, an arbitrary data visualization scheme that now serves as an inescapable template for our politics and identities. Since 1992, 18 states ...

Today, journalists from across the newsroom discuss how the political conversation affects their beat. It takes a village — or several desks at The New York Times — to provide round-the-clock ...

Dubbed the “election of a generation,” the 2024 presidential race and its result may very well be adapted for the screen — it feels stranger than fiction, like a TV plot come to life. As ...

It’s constant in New York, where I live now. I have met people in New York who aren’t very political, but they vote. They’ve always voted for Democrats, and now they’re leaning toward ...