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NHPR, in partnership with NH Civics and New Hampshire PBS, is thrilled to invite you to attend the Civics 101 Summit.

We've received a lot of questions about The Electoral College from listeners, from how it works, to why it was set up, and whether or not it can it be…

Presidential job approval. It seems we get a weekly report from news organizations on how citizen’s think the President is doing, so we're digging into…

We've received multiple questions about Congressional Caucuses, what are they, how are they formed, and what is their purpose? We asked Colleen Shogun,…

The National Debt and The Deficit: two terms that are often used interchangeably, but take on different meanings when it comes to the government. Louise…

We've received a LOT of questions about how the budget process works and honestly, we had a lot of our own! It should come as no surprise that the budget…

With more than 500 members of Congress, parties have to coordinate members and keep them on the same page. Enter: party whips. But what do they actually…

Article II of the U.S. Constitution gives the President the power to grant pardons. Does this power have limits? Or did the founders give the the…

When Congress imposed the first personal income tax on Americans in 1861, nothing happened – because there was no agency to collect it! The following year…

The Army-McCarthy hearings, Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, the Select Committee on Benghazi, the Russian hacking probe. Congressional investigations…