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Primary season is around the corner. How will the spread of misinformation be mitigated?
This episode examines the country's workforce and what's influencing job creation and job loss.
The countdown to Election Day is on, and political analysts are giving their predictions.
Paul Ryan may no longer be a member of Congress but he's still paying attention to the issues.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats discusses Trump's meeting with Putin.
Americans across the country will go to the polls and cast their ballots next week, but they won’t all do it in exactly the same way. The U.S. has 8,800 voting jurisdictions, which allows for local adaptation, but presents a challenge when it comes to standardizing elections. That variability might be part of what’s fueling a wave of mistrust about voting integrity, and a...
Populations around the world have been electing more and more autocratic leaders in the past couple decades, via supposedly free, fair, and democratic elections. The freedom of the press is being impinged upon in many places, and fear, outrage and misinformation are often taking the place of reasoned debate. Minority populations in some countries are increasingly oppressed...
As the presidential election heats up, voters are considering factors unique to 2020.
What are the ways in which people are viewing voting through the lens of race?
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Russian interference in the last election.
It's clear the United States isn't united right now. A Pew Research poll done before the 2020 election showed about 9 in 10 voters worried a victory by the other party would lead to lasting harm for the country. Our partisan divides aren't just endangering relationships and slowing progress in Washington, they're threatening our national security. "The greatest gift the Un...
Instead of coming together during the pandemic, many Americans have grown farther apart. People are increasingly living in different realities of news, politics, and information, which is putting public health, elections, and democracy at risk. False and misleading information online are partly to blame, says Vivian Schiller, director of Aspen Digital. "Much of this stems...
How can we stay safe in the increasingly tech-driven world?
Kleptocracy presents a growing threat to US national security and international peace, as money laundering and other forms of public “grand corruption” increasingly undermine democracy, cripple development, weaken Western soft power, and accelerate state collapse.
Hear from women involved in modern feminism as well as politically-active millennials.
Are we seeing a new era in American politics? Two former Republican presidential candidates weigh in
In this era of deep partisanship, how can common ground be found on Capitol Hill and on Main Street?
Former FBI Director James Comey says transparency and a desire to maintain his agency’s credibility prompted him to reopen the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016.
Writers Tara Westover and Sarah Smarsh say the damaging stereotypes of people living in rural America need to be stamped out.
Last year Russia infiltrated the digital networks of federal agencies and many of America’s largest corporations, and last week’s armed insurrection on the US Capitol was fomented through disinformation campaigns on social media.