Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

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Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that a single injection of a small, circular piece of genetic instruction can ...

We started to count Indiana's contributions to the U.S. on its 250th birthday. Turns out, that's impossible, but this list is a start.

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...