In race for at-large Columbia City Council position, candidates have raised questions about politics, business influences of ...

When it comes to the race to replace David Yates in the state Senate, Louisville Democrats and Republicans alike see a big opportunity before them.

Recently, a friend was asked, "What church do you go to?" to which he replied he was an atheist. I heard his response and was ...

Tim Kaine, Virginia’s Minnesota-born, Kansas-raised junior U.S. senator, rarely passes on an opportunity to share his adoptive state’s story with others. That’s because the Democrat believes that ...

Milk is never just milk. It’s saturated with meaning, emotion and contradiction, and provokes strong responses in people.

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to ...

There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and the developers behind a military shooter saying that their game isn’t political in nature. It was all but assured that we would see that last ...

Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned ...

Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political ...

We look at where the willingness among Democrats and Republicans is to end the government shutdown, as well as U.S. strikes on alleged cartel boats in the Caribbean. We're joined now by NPR senior ...

A new Alabama law on human smuggling, one of several bills on illegal immigration proposed by Republican legislators this year, takes effect Wednesday. The bill by Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, makes it ...

The poll results identify five distinct types of independents, with big implications for American politics. As party loyalty fades and the definition of that elusive swing voter shifts, elections are ...