T.J. Raphael

The events leading up to 1984 industrial accident are fictionalized in "Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain," a new film which stars Kal Penn, Martin Sheen, and Mischa Barton.

Russia's economy is in trouble. Its currency—the ruble—has fallen to an all-time low. Against the dollar, the ruble is now 25 percent weaker than it was at the start of the year.

On Tuesday, voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington D.C. voted to legalize recreational marijuana use. Is the reefer revolution finally beginning on Constitution Avenue?

Now that the dust has settled after the 2014 midterm elections, what's ahead for the GOP? Former NRCC Chairman and Congressman Tom Davis explains.

Republicans now control the Senate, and they also support the $5.4 billion TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which would link Canada's oil sands with refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

On Tuesday, Tennessee voters passed the controversial Amendment 1, giving the legislature greater leeway to regulate abortion. One GOP lawmaker explains what laws she'd like to see.

A few years ago, Jascha Hoffman was a freelancer writing obituaries and struggling to write songs for a third album. He soon realized that the two vocations went well together.

What do the midterm election results say about the American electorate, and the country's place in the world? Listen to our analysis and share your own thoughts.

What's in store for the future of the donkey and the elephant? Two voices from the American political divide weigh in on the wins, the losses, and the future of their parties.

The 2014 midterm elections were good to the Republican party, which gained seats at the federal and state level, even in Democratic strongholds. 

Working class Americans secured large victories during the 2014 midterms, with four red state Republican strongholds voting to raise the state minimum wages over the next few years.

In the past, judicial elections were rarely politicized as judges managed stayed above the partisan fray. That's not so in 2014. 

With a price tag of nearly $4 billion, the 2014 midterm elections are the most expensive in American history. An investigative reporter follows the money trail. 

For years, Tom Magliozzi and his brother Ray—"Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers"—gave listeners more than just car advice. They redefined what public radio could be.

Who plays and doesn't play football is an increasingly partisan issue, according to a new column by The New York Times' David Leonhardt.

Filmmaker Sebastian Junger says the addictive nature of covering battle makes the transition to civilian life so difficult, but seeing a colleague die makes it too hard to keep going.

Election Day in Texas may not have any big cliff hangers, but the state is proving to be a laboratory for 21st century American politics.

Did you know there were once 17,000 different varieties grown in North America? Dan Bussey recently completed an encyclopedia of all these apples, and sadly, most of them are gone now.

It's Election Day, which means we can finally say goodbye to nasty political ads—at least for 10 minutes. To celebrate, we created some fake ads that are just as awful as the real thing.

This November, our friends at WQXR are bringing you a month-long tribute to the magnetic and hypnotic music of Johann Sebastian Bach.