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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dipayan Ghosh, a fellow at Harvard University, about Facebook's new political ad requirements.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat faces down a revolt by disaffected members of his own political organization in the Gaza Strip. The dissidents are demanding reforms to share power. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Our resident political poets, Calvin Trillin and James Bowman, offer their take on last night's vice presidential debate. Trillin is the author of Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme. Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

Independent filmmaker John Sayles' latest picture, about an election campaign in a Midwestern state, is called Silver City. NPR's Bob Mondello says it's a political lampoon in which similarities to real campaigns and campaigners are entirely intentional.

Loans and grants often aren't enough to cover all the expenses of a college education. For many students the struggle to afford school means long work hours and even skipping meals.

LGBTQ advocates are still celebrating Tuesday's election results.Matt Hirschey of Equality NC says 70 percent of the candidates his organization endorsed…

The percentage of black state legislators in the South that serve in the majority party has declined rapidly in the past 10 years—from 99 percent in 1994…

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has led Iraq for eight years, and despite critics who say he has authoritarian tendencies, an election this week could give him four more years in power.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the gimmicks and props used by any politicians during the campaign season.