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Attendees cheer a speaker during the Women's March "Power to the Polls" voter registration tour launch in Las Vegas on Jan. 21.

Do Women Candidates Have An Advantage In 2018?

Pollsters say that candidates who are women are uniquely positioned to do well in 2018 — and that many voters choose partly based on gender (even when they don't realize it).

Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a mass meeting at the Mason Temple in support of striking sanitation workers.

The Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike: King's Last Cause For Economic Justice

They wanted better working conditions and higher pay, but they needed help strategizing. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis to help.

Extreme Partisan Gerrymandering: The Supreme Court's Play In 3 Acts

The justices are hearing a case involving partisan gerrymandering for the second time this term. Now it's Democrats' turn to defend their plan.

Local Documentaries Get Spotlight At San Diego Latino Film Festival

Two documentaries are expected to play to full houses this weekend at the San Diego Latino Film Festival.

On March 18, Marshall County High School freshman Lela Free (left) works on a sign for the March for our Lives rally her community is planning for this Saturday. Free survived a shooting at her school in January, but was moved to action by the shooting in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.

'We Should Have Been The Last': Kentucky Shooting Survivors Inspired By Parkland

In January, a student in Marshall County, Ky. killed two classmates and injured 18 more. The survivors were still grieving when the students at Stoneman Douglas began a national protest movement.

Visitors walk the hallway inside the Pennsylvania Capitol near the House of Representatives chamber. A Republican lawmaker wants to impeach four of the state Supreme Court's justices who ruled that the congressional map be redrawn in time for the 2018 midterm elections.

Pennsylvania Chief Justice Criticizes Impeachment Moves

Impeachment resolutions have been introduced by a Republican lawmaker upset over the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision to quickly redraw the state's congressional voting map.

How The Trump Organization Mixes Business And Politics In India

Journalist Anjali Kamat spent a year investigating Trump's business deals in India. Her report is in the New Republic and on the WNYC podcast, Trump Inc., which is co-hosted by Andrea Bernstein.

The U.N. Set 17 Goals To Make The World A Better Place. How's It Doing?

It's hard tracking down data to see what progress is being made on the Sustainable Development Goals. Now there's a shiny new tool that does it for you.

Invisibilia: We All Think We Know The People We Love. We're All Deluded

This episode of the Invisibilia podcast explores how people often perceive the wishes and motives of others incorrectly, as in the case of two Taiwanese brothers and their mother's tenant.

Invisibilia: We All Think We Know The People We Love. We're All Deluded

This episode of the Invisibilia podcast explores how people often perceive the wishes and motives of others incorrectly, as in the case of two Taiwanese brothers and their mother's tenant.

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