NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas about Defense Secretary Pete ...

Jason Furman, former top economic adviser to President Obama and now at Harvard University, says the Fed's independence is ...

Laila Lalami's dystopian novel centers on a woman who's been incarcerated because an algorithm flagged her as a crime risk.

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures ...

A look at this spring in Georgia's Legislature show how Republicans continue filing bills to put limits on transgender people and how Democrats have tried to respond.

Frustrated with their party's response to President Trump, a wave of young Democrats are challenging incumbents in safe blue ...

The issue has resurfaced under United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has made false ...

With the U.S. now reporting more than 800 measles cases, a new poll from health policy research group KFF finds that many ...

Elon Musk says he'll cut back his work with the federal government to one to two days per week. He said demand for Teslas is ...

Mexican singer and songwriter Natalia Lafourcade has a new album out this week called Cancionera. In it, she draws from folk influences and embraces her mystical side.

At the center of the case is the school system in Montgomery County, Md., the most religiously diverse county in the U.S., ...

Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, ...