NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Marc Dunkelman on why, according to his forthcoming book "Why Nothing Works," progressives made it difficult for government to function.

In Michigan, lawmakers aren't subject to open records laws. An effort to open the government to freedom of information requests appears to be failing again.

A recent White House order lays the foundations for the government to deport international students who've participated in protests against Israel. Critics call it censorship of protected speech.

Margaret Wallace, who teaches air traffic control and airport management at the Florida Institute of Technology, discusses the outdated technology underlying the U.S. air traffic control system.

A veteran Justice Department lawyer has left the agency and is starting a new group to help advise and defend government lawyers under attack from the new administration.

Arab American voters in Michigan helped President Trump win the state during the presidential election. A look at how voters in Michigan feel now about Trump's idea to take over Gaza ...

Former EEOC commissioner Jocelyn Samuels was Trump's pick to fill a Democratic seat in 2020. She was fired at the start of his new administration in what she calls an attempt to eviscerate the agency.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at preventing transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. It's the latest in a series of actions focused on "gender ideology." ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at preventing transgender athletes from competing in women's sports. It's the latest in a series of actions focused on "gender ideology." ...

In the first major Israeli-Arab war in 1948, many Palestinians were driven from their homes and sought shelter in Gaza. The descendants of those refugees make up most of Gaza's population today.