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For a special series, Colin Campbell — the host of WUNC's Politics Podcast — is visiting communities across the state to hear from local leaders about the positives going on in their towns, and the challenges they face, from population loss to flooding to aging utility infrastructure.

In a landmark step, militant fighters from the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party, are beginning to withdraw from Turkey back to northern Iraq. The withdrawal will take months and the peace process will likely collapse unless Ankara enacts significant changes recognizing Kurdish rights within Turkey. But for now, people are allowing themselves to hope that this time it might work.

Carol Moseley Braun is no stranger to stepping into new territory. She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate now she shares that experience a new memoir.

As algorithms replace our news diet of local papers with each person’s favorite flavor of digital fervor, what happens to our political system? Online…

It has been a bad week for President Donald Trump. Two of his close associates were caught lying as the special counsel’s investigation into possible…

.Note: This segment is a rebroadcast from September 5, 2018. There was a time when we could agree to disagree and still be civil at work, play, and the…

Online movements accompanying major protests like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street made people optimistic that digital activism could level the…

With the advent of modern DNA tests, people can now find out their genetic makeup within days. For many the tests can help strengthen a sense of heritage…

Lizz Winstead has made a career being the watchdog of the watchdog. As a co-creator of The Daily Show in the 1990s, Winstead was one of the first…

The Treasury Department has launched a new type of retirement account that allows people to save without taking risks or paying fees. The myRA program is designed to encourage workers to start saving.