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A new video, co-directed by actress Tilda Swinton, breaks the joy meter, as her vivacious dogs frolic to the strains of a Handel opera.

Two experts on redistricting said that democracy isn’t working because of gerrymandering - and that voters already know how to fix it.“There really is a…

Active duty troops have begun moving to bases in the southwest, preparing for deployment along the U.S.-Mexico border.

After 31 years of reporting the news, arts and quirky stories in Charlotte, the city’s alternative weekly newspaper Creative Loafing has printed its last…

One of our youngest listeners asked us why Ecuador changed its currency to U.S. dollars, so we found out!

Even stripped down to a guitar and voice, the song is classic Springsteen: grand, optimistic, spiritual and open-ended enough to be embraced by a big audience.

When Kashmir Hill filled her home with smart devices, she knew they would collect massive amounts of her personal information. She wanted to understand: what's the ultimate cost of that data mining?

Edward Tenner says we shouldn't fear technology's unintended consequences. He argues for taking the long view of history, and that human ingenuity often finds solutions to negative consequences.

The Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate has a new collection out, called Monument, that takes on American history, personal history, and the lives that history and poetry often overlook.

The D.C. post-punk band's brilliant new video for "Material" spoofs YouTube, but the jokes run far deeper — and weirder — than that.

Kathy Wang's new novel centers around a dying patriarch who's been hinting for years that he's sitting on a fortune, and the gleefully selfish, myopic family that's jockeying for the money.

Massachusetts cranberry growers are halfway through the harvest. It's been a good crop, but they're worried about low fruit prices. We visit with one farmer and discuss the struggling industry.

We answer questions from our listeners and issue a couple of mea culpas.

Placing stickers on the suffragist's gravestone has become a kind of pilgrimage for voters in Rochester, N.Y. With a record number of women running, the tribute has special significance this year.

You may be looking at early exit polls to see how the political winds are blowing. But exit polls are not very helpful in gauging turnout. And because so many people vote early, they are incomplete.

Despite raising more than $60 million and garnering national attention, O'Rourke was unable to overcome the GOP's hold on the state.

Republican Mark Harris bested Democrat Dan McCready in a close race for the 9th Congressional district seat, coming down to less than 2,000 votes. Harris…

Democrat Anita Earls won a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court after besting two Republicans on the ballot.Earls, a civil rights lawyer who worked in…

Election night brought some power shifts to Kansas. A Democrat won the governor's race while another flipped a congressional seat.

For generations of Mexican-Americans, what we now know as Ritchie Valens' mega hit has long been an anthem of cultural pride and resistance. (This piece initially aired Oct. 14, 2018 on ATC).