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As Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to questions this week about power blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands of PG&E customers in Northern California, he had to be thinking about a similar crisis that confronted another governor 18 years ago: Gray Davis. Davis inherited a deregulated energy market from a bill passed without opposition in 1996 after a … Continue reading Newsom, PG&E and the Perils of Power Politics →

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Holly Hunter about the Season 2 finale of HBO's Succession, the struggle to find good roles, and the impact of the MeToo movement on Hollywood.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Douglas Ollivant, former director for Iraq at the National Security Council, about the regional security implications of Trump withdrawing U.S. troops from northern Syria.

Twenty-one years ago, GOP Majority Leader Trent Lott worked with his Democratic counterpart, Tom Daschle, to preserve the idea of the Senate as an impartial jury in the president's impeachment trial.

The Australian, Canadian and British wives of ISIS fighters are getting increasingly desperate in detention camps in Syria. They're being kept with tens of thousands of local detainees.

Malat Lueth Wei, a top wheelchair basketball player who has helped introduce the sport to his homeland, is featured in a new short documentary.

A firestorm has erupted over the ethics of using that image on Facebook to promote a photo contest — and the broader issue of how Western media depicts young women and girls in poor countries.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., about Thursday's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee by acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.

If a major hurricane, flood or wildfire happens during the pandemic, evacuation shelters could be dangerous and cross-state aid impossible. So disaster response experts are planning new strategies.

President Trump and a pageant of guests attempted on Monday to sell the idea that victory — when it comes to scaled-up testing — is just around the corner.