If you're planning to fly this holiday season, be prepared to pay more than you did last year. The price of jet fuel — one of airlines' biggest expenses — is close to an all-time high in the U.S.

Dabin Han is an illustrator and comic artist based in New York City. WNYC is funded by sponsors and member donations A primer on the races for governor, attorney general and the congressional ...

Stephen Richer no longer runs elections in the fourth-largest county in the country. But for the rest of his life, he'll remember the feeling when polls closed on an election night. More than a ...

This is about the time of year when the country engages in the Great American Biennial Polling Freakout. A few weeks before an election, lots of people start to really engage. They read headlines ...

As polar ice melts in the Arctic, shipping lanes are opening up, making the region a new zone of superpower competition. Writer Rana Foroohar got an up-close look aboard the USCGC Healy, a Coast Guard ...

For hours, bullets tore through the home, hitting neighboring houses and cars. Inside, a man wanted by police for allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend was holed up with his new girlfriend. As the SWAT ...

The Justice Department has launched a formal anti-trust investigation into five major U.S. television networks for their actions during a court battle over whether several news outlets should have ...

In this episode of our series Viscera: Gripping Tales of the Human Body, we take you to a live performance in Boston where we reveal how this much-maligned element might be better understood as the ...

Maria Ressa, the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the world’s most prominent advocates for journalism as a bulwark of democracy, joins Brian Lehrer for the second Democracy Dialogues ...

The music of Goran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque combines the rhythms and melodies of flamenco, jazz, classical, rock and the ...

Across New York City, a largely unregulated ghost fleet of tow trucks is growing after years of lax enforcement. Many of these unlicensed operators rush to crash scenes in the hopes of lucrative ...

Glen Hansard, the Irish singer who won an Oscar for the musical movie Once and led the bands The Frames and The Swell Season, died on Wednesday. He was 56 years old. Hansard's management shared a ...