Miles Parks

To help ensure the integrity of the November elections, federal officials are advising local elections offices to upgrade websites — but many are not doing it.

Indications are that things generally went smoothly — good news in a year that has experts worried about the state of democracy.

A robocall in New Hampshire's primary that urged people not to cast ballots appeared to be an AI-generated clone of President Biden's voice. What does that signal for the 2024 election?

After weeks of silence, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a motion admitting to having a relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade.

As primary season kicks off, how are states preparing for voting?

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump should be excluded from the state's presidential primary because he was deemed by the court to have engaged in insurrection.

Former Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay a staggering $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he spread lies about following the 2020 election.

Experts say a right-wing campaign has cast efforts to combat rumors and conspiracy theories as censorship. As a result, they say, the tools to tamp down on election falsehoods have been scaled back.

Nine GOP-led states have now pulled out of ERIC, which helps members find election fraud and keep their voter lists up to date. And experts say their new efforts to replicate the group aren't as good.

Election conspiracies have fundamentally changed the job of local voting officials, and many don't want to take it anymore.

Why don't we vote online? The general consensus has been toward paper ballots. However, more than 30 states quietly allow some form of internet voting, despite warnings from cybersecurity experts.

The advice from cybersecurity experts is unanimous: Internet voting is a bad idea. But it's already happening in every federal election. In 2020, more than 300,000 Americans cast ballots online.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to psychiatrist Alex Keuroghlian about the state of training for medical students to care for the LGBTQ community.

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Michele Steele of ESPN about the week in sports news.

Hundreds are arrested in yet another night of violence in France. It began when a teenager of North African descent was fatally shot by police.

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Reuters editor Tom Lasseter about a project highlighting how many people in power in the U.S. today have ancestors who enslaved people.

Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's term which concluded yesterday.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with Jenny Lewis about her new album, Joy'All.

A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership known as ERIC. Eight Republican-led states have pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win.

NPR's Miles Parks talks with author Kevin Johnson and illustrator Kitt Thomas about their new picture book for kids coping with grief, "Cape."