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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billy House, Washington/Congress reporter for Newsday, talks about the issue of immigration and ICE funding in New York's 4th Congressional district, where the incumbent Democrat Laura Gillen is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. Kate Manne, professor at the Cornell University Sage School of Philosophy, offers her take on the casual misogyny that allows ...