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In the last four years, there's been a 12-point increase in the percent of Asian-Americans who identify as Democrat, according to a new poll. What does that mean for the presidential election?

2: SUSAN DOUGLAS is a professor of media and American studies at Hampshire College. She has just written a book "Where the Girls Are (Random House)," that looks at women in baby-boomer pop culture. She explains how the media's alternating images of stereotypical femininity and feminism created a kind of "schizophrenia" in American women. She talks about how this confusion has caused ambivalence in American women about what feminism means. In her book, she deconstructs such TV shows as "Bewitched," whose female heroines have magical powers, and "Mary Tyler Moore," whose heroine remains permanently poised between and assertiveness and submissiveness.

As the US ceases to be a white majority country - a democratic milestone we’re expected to reach by 2020- how will we as a society define what it means to…

Awards season has offered NPR's Scott Simon the opportunity to reflect on the number of British actors playing Americans in films and television shows, and wonder where the American actors are.

The glitch in the airline's scheduling system allowed all pilots to take time off at the end of December — and a lot of them did.

A survey from analytics company YouGov says two in five Americans believe ghosts exist — and the findings only get spookier from there. One in five Americans thinks they've actually seen a ghost.

Harris will not only be the first Black, and first female, vice president. She's also the first Indian American and the first Asian American elected to the office.

The recession had caused Americans to favor the economy over the environment, but that trend reversed itself in Gallup's latest survey.

As the US prepares to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, guest host Celeste Headlee speaks to Scot Nakagawa. He recently wrote an article called "Three Things Asian-Americans Owe to the Civil Rights Movement."

Part 1 of a talk from this past summer with an American Enterprise Institute scholar Karlyn Bowman on the election.Karlyn Bowman compiles and analyzes…