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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and Eliana Johnson, Washington editor of the National Review. They discuss the vice presidential debate and look at down ticket races.

The nation saw an alarming surge in homicides in 2015 — driven largely by hundreds more homicides of black men, who tend to be treated more as perpetrators of violence than as its most likely victims.

Casting racism as a moral failure has had the bizarre consequence of confounding the issue for many Americans. Can anything be called racist without controversy?

Castro shaped history, not just in Cuba, but also in South Florida. Most of the 2 million Cuban-Americans are there because they, or relatives, fled the island in the decades Castro was in power.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks about the EPA transition with Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the EPA from 2001 to 2003.

Rachel Martin talks to Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon about President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, an opponent of the Affordable Care Act.

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People in the six states where aid in dying is legal can have trouble finding a doctor or hospital to assist. Reasons cited include religious objections and doctors' discomfort with hastening death.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Gorsuch appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Charles Grassley, who as chairman of the panel, leads the confirmation effort.

Neil Gorsuch faced hours of questions from senators trying to get him to reveal his judicial philosophy. Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog talks about what it was like inside the hearing room on Tuesday.