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In 1968, a song about a miniskirt-wearing mom who stood up to the Harper Valley PTA and its small-town hypocrisy made singer Jeannie C. Riley the first woman to top both country and pop charts.

USAID has launched a series of experiments to see how traditional aid compares to giving people cash. The first results are in. And they're proving controversial.

President Trump strongly defended his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and said he feels terribly for him. Kavanaugh is accused of sexual assault when he was a teenager.

By weighing in on the NFL protests, President Trump transformed football fields across America into the front lines of a culture war. Three Texans explain how the debate will inform their votes.

In the aftermath of the Pittsburgh killings, many are seeing a connection between President Trump's anti-immigrant speeches and the attack, which targeted a synagogue that helped refugees.

In the suburbs of Richmond, Va., GOP Rep. Dave Brat pulled off an upset in 2014, as a Tea Party candidate defeating an establishment leader. Now, a Democrat could turn Virginia's 7th District blue.

The story of William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor, his Stanford Law School classmate, in the early 1950s has been unknown even to friends, colleagues and family — until now.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Alexa Gruman, who is 24 years old and from a family of Democrats in Minnesota. She's long considered herself a "proud liberal," but a recent job is changing her political identity.

Following the shooting that left 11 dead in Pittsburgh on Saturday, we look back at a 1790 letter from President George Washington to a Jewish Community in Rhode Island.

Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., splits with the president on issues like immigration and climate change in a district Hillary Clinton won in 2016. His opponent says he's not enough of a check on Trump.