Danielle Kurtzleben

A listener's 8-year-old daughter tells her dad to vote for the "girl" candidate, because she's a woman. It's a sweet clip, but it gets at the deep question of how identity and issues are intertwined.

The former president acknowledged that he was "talking past" protesters in a Thursday clash over the 1994 crime bill.

How much can a president take credit for job growth in the private sector?

New data from the Pew Research Center suggests that the Republican candidate who is doing the best is also the one who would send the most voters running.

Donald Trump made some highly controversial statements on abortion yesterday, then took them back hours later.

This campaign season, lots of people are apparently making calls and doing Internet searches to see how to move to Canada. The number who follow through is likely to be much, much lower.

Donald Trump has a base that skews heavily toward early deciders. His opponents end up fighting over who's left.

You'd think from watching the campaign that foreign trade is super unpopular. But polls show that's not quite true.

Democratic turnout this year looks like Republicans' did in 2008. And the GOP's massive turnout looks a lot like Dems' eight years ago.

Candidates love to cite these polls, but not every pollster thinks they're useful. The election is still eight months away. So, when will everyone agree it's time to pay attention to hypotheticals?

Women are staying single longer than ever — a shift that's having profound political implications, says author Rebecca Traister.

Hillary Clinton apologized after she called the late Nancy Reagan a "very effective, low-key" advocate on HIV/AIDS awareness, when in fact she and her husband were criticized for not doing enough.

Michelle Fields of conservative site Breitbart alleged that she was assaulted at a Trump event by someone who was ID'd as Trump's campaign manager.

The issue of trade has been an important dividing line within both parties this year. Democratic and Republican candidates are backing away from supporting free trade amid voter concerns and a rising tide of populism.

Republicans continued to post stunning voter-turnout numbers Tuesday night. In the four states that voted on the GOP side, turnout far exceeded what the party saw in 2012.

In Hawaii's, Michigan's and Mississippi's Republican races, turnout this year was 30 to 40 percent higher than it was in 2012. Idaho ...

Here's the short version of Tuesday night's primaries (and one caucus): Donald Trump won big, Bernie Sanders pulled off a major upset, and Marco Rubio had a bad, bad night.

Those were the outcomes, but how did they happen? Here are four big takeaways from the exit polls in Michigan ...

The results from Tuesday's four primary and caucus states are in: three wins for Trump, one each for Clinton and Cruz, and one surprising, narrow victory for Sanders.

Bernie Sanders' tight win over Hillary Clinton in Michigan is the biggest news out of Tuesday night's presidential nomination races. Though Clinton ...

This story is part of NPR's fact-checking series, Break It Down.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will face off in the Michigan primary on Tuesday, at a time when the state's major cities have seen better days. Flint faces a lead-tainted-water crisis, while Detroit is still reeling from its ...

Not even the best political forecasters could have guessed that Donald Trump's hand and genitalia size would become 2016 presidential campaign topics. But they have, and it's thanks in large part to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Rubio insulted Trump on the campaign trail last week by claiming the business mogul ...

If voter turnout is any indicator of enthusiasm, this year's GOP voters are way, way more pumped than 2012 voters were. Democrats, meanwhile? Their excitement seems to have dimmed since 2008.

Last night, more than 8.5 million Republicans turned out to vote in the 11 GOP Super Tuesday states that ...