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Dismantling the federal government won’t be complete without upending the judicial branch — or so many conservatives argue, ...

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Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She appears on NPR shows, writes for the web, and is a regular on The NPR Politics Podcast. She is covering the ...

Alt.Latino is here to celebrate it and all of its nuances through music. Each episode, NPR Music's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with a different living legend or rising star to ...

Rob Stein is a correspondent and senior editor on NPR's science desk. An award-winning science journalist with more than 30 years of experience, Stein mostly covers health and medicine.

Scott Horsley is NPR's Chief Economics Correspondent. He reports on ups and downs in the national economy as well as fault lines between booming and busting communities. Horsley spent a decade on ...

Ximena Bustillo is a multi-platform reporter at NPR covering politics and policy in Washington related to DHS and immigration. On air and in print, Bustillo has covered the full gamut of American ...

April 23, 2025 • America's neighbor to the north has seen wide ranging impacts from the tariffs on goods sent to the U.S.— from Canadian identity to the country's politics and of course the ...

Jason DeRose covers religion for NPR News, reporting on the ways belief shapes American public life and the ways American life shapes religious expression. Previously, he was NPR's Western Bureau ...