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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to NPR's Susan Davis and journalists Maria Martin and Valerie Gonzalez about the surge of migrants at the southern border.

The Interior Department is arguing D.C. height limits don't apply to federal projects, bucking a century of precedent. If the panel reviewing Trump's arch agrees, experts say it could change the city.

Former President Donald Trump and some media organizations are pushing for the Jan. 6 federal election interference trial to be televised.

States like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Missouri and North Carolina will be decisive, and they're all moving Democrats' way as Republicans are put further on the defensive by Donald Trump.

Sweet potatoes are a big part of many a holiday meal. But Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst says you can do so much more with them.

David Daley, who wrote a book on Republican redistricting efforts earlier this decade, worries that the next round of map-making could be just as bad.

The president's second State of the Union address touched on many of his familiar themes and agenda items but also included moments and proposals that drew positive reaction from Democrats.

NPR member station reporters across the U.S. asked people how they are thinking about their country on its semiquincentennial.

As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.

Scholar and activist HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. He's Professor of English and Chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard and one of Afro-American studies most visible and controversial proponents. GATES believes that Black studies should be a methodology, not an ideology, and that you don't have to be black to teach African-American literature. He defended the rap group 2 Live Crew in court in Florida testifying that the group was "parodying stereotypes of blacks, following the old African-American tradition of 'signifying,' or humorous put-downs." GATES has a new memoir of his early years, "Colored People," (