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Monday, May 4, 2020Protests against stay-at-home orders in North Carolina and elsewhere have questioned their constitutionality. Public opinion of…

Thursday, June 27, 2019Reparations for African-Americans has been discussed for many years, but it has taken on a new level of prominence, from Congress…

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Sorting out fake news, trolls, and foreign interference – all working to misinform you. How do we fix this and who gets to be the gatekeeper of online information? We look for answers.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017The portrayal of teen suicide in the Netflix show “13 Reasons Why” has raised fears it may lead to copycats. Does it cross the line?…

We hear Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles' thoughts on the events of the year and some recent challenges as well.

Arts funding in Charlotte is a political hot potato from time to time, and it’s being tossed around again as the City Council considers changes in its budget allocation to the Arts & Science Council.

Charlotte's latest city budget proposal was just released. It contains a lot of goodies but no tax increase. Mayor Vi Lyles and City Manager Marcus Jones will join us to go through the most important line items up for discussion.

When it comes to police and interactions with the public, transparency is all-important. However, transparency in government and policing is often difficult to achieve. We talk about that and roadblocks to public records.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade seemed like an election-year gift to Democrats, especially with Republicans leaning into that decision. But sentiment seems to have cooled. Mike Collins and our panel of guests look at the possible impact of abortion on the midterms.

Mike Collins and our panel of guests discuss some of the efforts being made in Charlotte’s “Corridors of Opportunity” toward reducing crime.

Mike Collins and our panel of guests examine the impact of two recent Supreme Court decisions involving North Carolina and at why the state was at the center of these cases.

Watch the producer extraordinaire sit down for a rare, in-depth interview with Jason King, host of NPR Music's R&B channel "I"ll Take You There."

Two staff members of Israel's embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead last night outside of a Jewish museum. And, House Republicans passed President Trump's bill.

As the Supreme Court takes up birthright citizenship, a new poll finds that less than a third of Americans want it to end. But other parts of the White House's immigration crackdown are more popular.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Sonali Rajan, associate professor in the department of Health and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University, about the increase in gun-related deaths in 2020.

Employees' ability to work from home could transform small metro areas and change where Americans choose to live.

Students today have no memory of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, so this year's anniversary poses unique challenges for educators and caregivers trying to explain what happened and why.

Ohio is the latest Republican-led state to pass a ban on abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. But Tennessee this week backed off a similar bill, fearing costly legal battles. What now?

Coronavirus patients "were lined up along the walls in the ER," said a Georgia health care worker. "We never have had an influx like that. Since the Fourth of July, it has just exploded."

Kwame Alexander, NPR's poet in residence, reads the latest crowdsourced poem, this one focused on how you've been affected by and coping during the global coronavirus pandemic.