What if the next insurrection is led by radicalized active duty troops? A new documentary called “War Game” uses role-playing to explore how U.S. government officials might prepare.

What we know about each political party’s economic policies.

Seven swing states will be decisive in the 2024 election. Kai gets “On the Call” to ask a pollster how voters in those states feel about the economy, safety and presidential leadership.

The Vice President came of age inside collegiate institutions that have shaped Black, middle-class culture for generations. She says they imprinted deeply upon her as well.

Journalist Aymann Ismail gets “On the Call” with Kai to share his reporting on “uncommitted” Democrats pushing Harris for an arms embargo on Israel — and awkward exchanges from the RNC.

From “Hotties for Harris" to “American Bad Ass,” this year’s presidential election has quite a soundtrack. We add everything in between to this year’s NFA Summer Playlist.

Commentator Anand Giridharadas gets “On the Call” with Kai to argue that the Harris-Walz campaign has fundamentally changed the way Democrats do politics — and for the better.

Kamala Harris is the self-proclaimed “top cop”. Would a future President Harris have the ability to implement police reform to prevent police killings like that of Sonya Massey?

Harlem-born writer James Baldwin would have been 100 years old in 2024. A new podcast explores how his novels, essays and ideas remain both inspiring and eerily resonant today.

Elie Mystal gets “On the Call” with host Kai Wright to weigh the pros and cons of Biden’s SCOTUS plan — and make a case that Kamala Harris is uniquely suited to rein in the high court.

Attorney Abdeen Jabara’s life and work in the U.S. movement for Palestinian rights tracks a long history of Arab American activism.

Mere hours after Joe Biden announced he was bowing out of the 2024 election, an estimated 44,000 Black women connected via Zoom to celebrate and strategize a win for Kamala Harris.

Joe Biden’s decision to not seek re-election had been weeks in the making as Democrats battled each other over whether he was well-positioned to defeat Donald Trump a second time.

A re-election campaign rally for former president Donald Trump turned deadly in Pennsylvania, prompting the question: are we in a new era of political violence in America?

WNYC’s 100-year-old audio archive includes voices of Black celebrities throughout history like Josephine Baker, Althea Gibson, Dick Gregory and Malcolm X.

The presidential debate was anxiety producing for many in the Democratic political elite. The average voter was already checked out.

Many blame the wave of right-wing reforms curtailing Americans’ ability to participate in democracy on the influence of Trumpism. Voting rights expert Ari Berman says there’s more to it.

Barbara Jordan’s name may not ring a bell for many people today, but the late Congresswoman from Texas was a pivotal figure at a pivotal time in our national history.

Every week, we ask you to talk to us. Host Kai Wright spends some time responding to listener messages from our various inboxes.

Ten years after its original staging, “Appropriate” has received eight Tony Award nominations. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins talks about the moments of his life that inspired it.

Student activists like Hisham Awartani are spending the summer organizing around a push for Brown University to divest from companies that contribute to human rights abuses in Gaza.

A majority of voters polled about Donald Trump’s felony conviction say the outcome of his hush money trial didn’t sway their opinion of the former president.

Ayana Mathis joins us to discuss her novel, The Unsettled. It's an intergenerational story centered around one Black family's struggle to find freedom.

Today’s grads are being heralded as the generation that will change the world. And while many in Gen Z are eager to rise to the occasion, some wonder how fair of an expectation that is.

This spring, more than 150 college campuses saw anti-war protests with demonstrators calling for their schools to divest from companies doing business in Israel’s occupied territories.