2020 Election

NPR media correspondent David Folkenflick and Politico's White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire discuss the challenges of reporting on the growing right-wing extremism and disinformation in American politics.

New York Times reporter Alexander Burns, co-author with Times colleague Jonathan Martin, discusses their harrowing new account of how political events of the past 18 months have shaken the foundations of American democracy.

The Atlantic's lead politics reporter goes deep inside the Democrats' urgent 2020 campaigns to defeat President Trump.

The Atlantic's lead politics reporter goes deep inside the Democrats' urgent 2020 campaigns to defeat President Trump.

(Originally broadcast November 12, 2020)On this archive edition of Midday, Tom talks with Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker, about his latest…

(Originally broadcast November 12, 2020) On this archive edition of Midday, Tom talks with Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker, about his latest…

(Originally broadcast Oct. 1, 2020)Today, we revisit a conversation Tom had in October with Brian Stelter, the chief media correspondent for CNN, about…

(Originally broadcast October 21, 2020)Today, on this archive edition of Midday, a conversation Tom had two weeks before the November election with Gerald…

As the country falls deeper into the morass of a surging pandemic, President Trump has ignored the coronavirus and most of his other presidential duties,…

Yesterday, at a news conference at the State House in Annapolis, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan gave a somber summary of the scope of the COVID 19 pandemic in…