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NPR's Scott Detrow reports on the party's platform. Steve Inskeep talks to Rachel Hoff, the first openly gay Republican on the platform committee. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports on protest demonstrations.

In China, the vast following of a folk goddess of the sea illustrates the remarkable rebirth of local popular religion since the Cultural Revolution. Now, China's communist leaders are supporting worship of Mazu as "cultural heritage" and using it to advance their own political and economic goals.

This weekend marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, officially ending the country's era of apartheid. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with journalist Redi Thlabi.

Four seats on the Cincinnati Public Schools Board of Education are up for election this November. We asked listeners what they wanted to know before heading to the polls.

Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley is wrapping up his two terms in office and is in the midst of his quest to become the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor in the 2022 election. He sat down with WVXU's Becca Costello and Howard Wilkinson for one final interview.

Addiction treatments are safe, effective — and rarely offered to patients. That's because many doctors and nurses still view people with alcohol or drug addiction with suspicion and hostility.

In his new book, election forecaster Nate Silver writes that the people who take big risks are winning in American society.

Once viewed as a refuge by members of the Muslim minority group, Turkey has detained Uighurs and told them to hush criticism about the Chinese government. Some have already been deported.

On March 3, 2020, it was Super Tuesday. The war in Afghanistan was still going on. A small but deadly tornado outbreak hit Tennessee. In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine was just beginning to grapple with the onset of the not-yet-worldwide coronavirus pandemic.

You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.