Search results for

Noel King talks to Dave Wasserman from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, who discusses emerging trends in U.S. House races. He studies the ins and outs of all 435 congressional districts.

Calls for police reform after George Floyd's death proved politically tricky for Democrats. For Republicans, inheriting Donald Trump's mantle is a difficult poiltical maneuver.

In 2012 the world will see the usual political changes: shifting leaderships, revolutions and protest movements. But one foreign policy analyst predicts an escalation of cyberwars between nations.

The campaigns of President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, experiment with what works with political ads online. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

In the second of a three-part series on the politics of post-Saddam Iraq, NPR's Ivan Watson reports on Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims, long oppressed by the former regime but now feeling the power of their numbers.

Nixon adviser Kevin Phillips' book The Emerging Republican Majority was hailed as a visionary work of political analysis. But in American Theocracy, he argues that the Republican Party — and the country — is headed for disaster.

William Greider is used to standing up to power.In the early 1980s, he got Ronald Reagan’s budget director to admit that trickle-down economics was a sham…

The campaign season is in the final stretch, and both presidential candidates are making last minute pleas in North Carolina. Polls predict a tight race,…

Athletes used to lead the charge for social change all the time, but as sports figures started making more in endorsement deals, their politics sometimes took a backseat to their pocketbooks. Sportswriter Dave Zirin's new book is about the uneasy confluence of sports and politics over the years.

Political cartoons have a long history in Iran and give voice to critics of the authoritarian regime. Lately cartoonists have been increasingly persecuted for their work. A recent book, Sketches of Iran, pairs 40 political essays with cartoons depicting life in Iran today.