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The fourth volume in Robert Caro's monumental biography of Lyndon Johnson is The Passage of Power; it explores the period between 1958 and 1964 during which Johnson went from powerful Senate majority leader to powerless vice president to — suddenly — president of the United States. Originally broadcast on May 13, 2013.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times, about Republican leadership's bad week and the rollout of a Republican effort to overhaul the tax code.

Robert Siegel speaks with our regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne, of the Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks, of the New York Times.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Kristen Soltis Anderson of the Washington Examiner and Echelon Insights, and Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times, about the closing arguments Republicans and Democrats are making ahead of Election Day next week.

A record 280 political parties had registered by Thursday's deadline to participate in Haiti's first general election in a decade, hopeful for a chance to help ease their country's multiple crises.

#ThingsLincolnDidntSay brought the 16th president back to Twitter on his birthday to weigh in on the current presidential race. But in reality, he might actually feel at home.

Several of North Carolina's congressional districts are the focus of this week's politics podcast. There are special elections for the 3rd and 9th seats…

A test of divided government played out this week at the General Assembly, where Republicans failed to override a veto from Democratic Governor Roy…

Terry has a discussion about the politics of identity, the strengths and limitations of social and political movements that define themselves by ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. She talks with: 1) ELLEN WILLIS, professor of Journalism at NYU, and a former senior editor of The Village Voice. She's written extensively on feminist issues. Her new book of essays is "No More Nice Girls." (Wesleyan Press) 2) EDWARD SAID ("sigh-eed"), professor of literature at Columbia. He is a Palestinian American and has seen himself as someone who interprets the west for the middle east, and vice versa. His new book is "Culture and Imperialism," (Knopf) 3) GAYLE PEMBERTON, associate director of African American studies at Princeton. She's the author of "The Hottest Water in Chicago," a collection of autobiographical essays. (Faber & Faber).

We look at the spate of campaign offices being opened by the Democrats in battleground states, as well as whether Nikki Haley's voters are likely to vote for Donald Trump given how she characterized him during her own campaign.