NPR's Juana Summers talks with Cindy Nava, a Democrat, who will be joining the New Mexico state senate in Albuquerque. She is one of the millions of "Dreamers" who are protected by DACA.

Ann Patchett answers a question from the Wild Card deck and discusses how her feelings about God and her Catholic faith have changed over the years.

Samantha Harvey talks about her new Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital. It follows a day in the life of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Trump wants to return to the use of mental institutions and proposes tent cities to deal with people who are unhoused and have mental illness. Experts say it's beyond the scope of federal authority.

Roy Haynes. American jazz drummer and bandleader has died. Born in 1925 in Roxbury, Mass., he influenced generations of jazz drummers and helped change the direction of rhythmic improvisation.

President-elect Donald Trump has long presented pollsters with a challenge. We look at what polling underestimated and what it accurately foreshadowed in this election.

President-elect Trump has promised mass deportations, including workplace raids like those that took place during his first term at chicken processing plants in rural Mississippi.