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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will cooperate with government on Russia...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that while his company is cooperating with the Russia investigation, no one should expect it to intercept all undesirable material before it hits its social...

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Listeners Weigh in on 'What Happened'

Listeners call in to talk about Hillary Clinton's take on what happened during the 2016 presidential campaign. @BrianLehrer I'm glad she has the guts to speak out in the face of continued...

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Hillary Clinton Talks About 'What Happened'

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic nominee for president in 2016, former Secretary of State, former U.S. senator from New York and former first lady of the United States, talks about the 2016...

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WATCH LIVE: Senators to discuss first findings in Russia probe

Watch the senators’ announcement today at 12:30 p.m. EDT in the video player above.WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are set to release preliminary findings about Russian...

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Want to Vote in the 2018 Primary? You Have a Week to Register

The general election is next month (WNYC is carrying the next mayoral debate live on the evening of Tuesday, October 10). If you haven't registered to vote in it, you have until Friday, October 13....

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Amid Mounting Criticism, Facebook Takes the Heat on Capitol Hill

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has been in Washington this week meeting with members of Congress after revelations that accounts linked to Russia...

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Twitter chat: How the gun control debate mirrors larger issues of...

Participants with One Million Moms for Gun Control, a gun control group formed in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school mass shooting, march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Jan. 21, 2013, in New...

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Did Voter Suppression in Wisconsin Swing the Election?

Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones and author of Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Picador, 2016), discusses his latest reporting on voter suppression’s...

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City Board of Elections Admits It Broke the Law, Accepts Reforms

The New York City Board of Elections is admitting it broke state and federal law when it improperly removed voters from the rolls ahead of the presidential primary last spring, including more than...

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A Year of No Woman President; Flake, Trump and the GOP; The Forces That Keep...

It's been a year since the 2016 presidential election. For the next four weeks, Joan Walsh, national correspondent for The Nation and MSNBC political analyst, will be here to help you take a deep...

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Manafort, Gates Charged With Conspiracy in Mueller Investigation

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election took a critical step forward today....

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Manafort Indictment: Four Things We Learned and One More Question

Special counsel Robert Mueller unveiled a 12-count indictment against Paul Manafort that includes allegations of money laundering in the course of his work in Ukraine. Manafort has pleaded not guilty....

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Who is George Papadopoulos?

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Monday’s 12-count indictment against former Trump aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates includes a slew of charges, from money laundering to...

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Nyet Just a Conspiracy Theory?

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy theories, and thought 'Man, is this really my country?'...

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A Month After the Las Vegas Shooting, Where are the Answers?

Coming up on today's show:Erica Marat, a Central Asia expert at the College of International Security Affairs, brings us the latest on Tuesday's attack in New York City. She examines the attacker's...

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Russia Investigation: Tech Companies Grilled on Capitol Hill

Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. The top lawyers from Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been grilled on Capitol Hill this week as congressional lawmakers are investigate how...

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For Patti Smith, Fighting Climate Change is a Family Affair

Coming up on today's show:President Trump’s pick to head the Department of Agriculture, Sam Clovis, withdrew his nomination on Wednesday, after being linked to Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia...

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Was the Democratic National Convention 'Rigged'?

Susan Glasser, chief international affairs columnist  at POLITICO and host of The Global Politico podcast, and Joe Conason, editor-in-chief of The National Memo, weigh in on Donna Brazile's revelations...

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The 'Trump Effect' Getting Women to Run for Office

Women are running for office. Last year, 920 women contacted Emily’s List to inquire about starting their own campaigns. This year that number is up to 20,000. And all of these women are people who...

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Spy Terms of the Internyet

Russian spy tactics have gotten an upgrade since the Cold War. This week how they work now: bad actors, active measures, advanced persistent threats. Cyberwar has its own vocabulary. So we got...

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