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If Donald Trump wins the election, JD Vance is one step away from the White House. He entered politics as the Senator of Ohio just two years ago.
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Sasha Abramsky writes about how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered.
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Your Legal Rights“Today, our nation and world are at an inflection point,” Mary Smith, President of the American Bar Association, said. “At home and around the globe, autocrats and dictators threaten the rule of law. Our democracy is under strain." At the start of her presidential term in August 2023, ABA President Smith created the Task Force for American Democracy. The deans from more than 100 of America’s top law schools wrote a letter in support, concerning the training necessary for the next generation of lawyers to sustain our constitutional democracy and the rule of law. “The nation's law schools play a critical role in training the next generation of lawyers and upholding the core values of our profession,” remarked Heather K. Gerken, Yale Law School dean and member of the task force. “Through our joint efforts as outlined in [the] letter, we hope to set an example for our students as we prepare them to carry our democracy forward.”What forces are at play that threaten democracy in America, and throughout the world? Are they taking hold? Here?Tonight, YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by Task Force member Maria Echaveste, a former U.S. presidential advisor to President Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief of Staff during the second Clinton Administration, and Brent Turner, a graduate of Lincoln Law School in San Francisco who was instrumental in the creation of the San Francisco County Voting Systems Task Force and who has been a Director of Communications for Open Voting Consortium.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
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Donald Trump has repeatedly shared AI-generated content on social media in the latest example of how artificial intelligence is showing up in the 2024 election.
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Some 67 percent of Republicans say the Bible should influence U.S. laws to some extent.
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Places like China, Ukraine and Gaza will be at the forefront of the mind of whoever becomes the next president.
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Voters in 76 countries are going to the polls this year – including the five largest democracies. And this surge of voting comes as democracy has been in decline.
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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman about why he thinks President Biden should step aside in the 2024 election.
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Latinos are more likely to rely on social media for news, where claims are less likely to be verified. Now, researchers and fact-checkers are trying to close the gap.
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The Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, or BAHFA, passed a resolution on Wednesday to put a $20 billion affordable housing bond on the ballot this November.
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Beginning on Monday, 36,000 tons of sand will be moved over the next two weeks to stave off sand migrating onto the northern stretch of San Francisco’s Great Highway.