At first glance, it might have looked like a run-of-the-mill social media check-in: "How is everybody doing?" But the message came from Elmo — the furry red friend to kids, Muppets and anyone else.

Ahead of the July 4 holiday, a new poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist sheds light on how people are feeling about the state of democracy, the political parties and the job President Trump is doing. Who ...

“By the way, I have a favorite statistic,” Juliette Michaelson tells me midway through our conversation. She’s a deputy chief of the MTA, working on policy and especially on the rollout of the ...