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Companies have been firing employees and cracking down on reactions to Charlie Kirk's assassination, in what business and legal experts call a "pretty bad" time for free speech.

Companies have been firing employees and cracking down on reactions to Charlie Kirk's assassination, in what business and legal experts call a "pretty bad" time for free speech.

Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter clone as a more "friendly" place for online discourse. Executives say breaking news and politics will not be the emphasized. But is that realistic?

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Michael Warren, a senior writer at the conservative outlet The Weekly Standard, about Trump's turbulent vacation and what's ahead.

The 1980s Brazilian soccer star known simply by his first name, Socrates, is still revered in the country for his playing. But he is also remembered as a brave political dissenter who opposed Brazil's military dictatorship. NPR's Arun Rath talks to sports writer Dave Zirin about the legacy of Socrates.

Hurricane Harvey has changed a lot of things in Houston, and quite a few in Washington, too. President Trump and Congress have a lot to accomplish before the end of September.

Civilities columnist Steven Petrow, NPR's Sam Sanders and Danielle Belton of The Root talk Thanksgiving: how to deal with family political arguments, and what's up with $66 collard greens?

Retired Republican political consultant ED ROLLINS. He's just written a book chronicling his 30 years in American politics, "Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics" (with Tom DeFrank, published by Broadway Books). ROLLINS began his political life a Democrat, working for Bobby Kennedy's campaign in 1968. After an experience at a violent demonstration, though, he became a Republican and worked his way up to become President Reagan's top political advisor. He managed the land-slide Reagan re-election. He also chaired Jack Kemp's unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid and for a short stint managed Ross Perot 1992 independent presidential campaign. Controversial for his outspoken and rough manner, ROLLINS is most recently remembered for inadvertently revealing the supposed pay-offs given to black ministers so they would surpress black voter turnout in the 1993 gubernatorial campaign of Christine Todd Whitman. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW