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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont about his latest book: It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.

In an off-year, offseason election, it all comes down to turnout. That's why ahead of Wisconsin's April 4 state Supreme Court election, organizers are getting out the vote in some creative ways.

Two weeks after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse sparked a power struggle, a 71-year-old neurosurgeon-turned-politician will be sworn-in Tuesday as prime minister.

Organizers say they're doing all they can to fight back against restrictive voting laws and turn out voters. But they also say they haven't yet gotten much help from Democrats in Washington, D.C.

Young volunteers blast techno music while helping people in destroyed villages and then hold dance parties to blow off steam. "Listening to music keeps us balanced, so we can keep working," one says.

State legislatures are considering more than 600 bills that would undermine local control on culture wars issues from education and policing to environmental policy.

Steyer, the billionaire hedge fund invester and climate change activist, is betting everything on South Carolina. He'll learn Saturday if it paid off.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel B. Shapiro warns of "severe ramifications" from the plan. The major problems, he writes, "result from having talked to only one side in the conflict — Israel."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republicans during a closed-door meeting that he does not now have the votes to defeat Democrats' push for witnesses, but he is not declaring defeat.

The ATF has gone extended periods without a confirmed director. Now, as President Biden hopes to make sweeping changes to America's gun laws, his nominee faces steep opposition in the Senate.