Politics & Policy

We talk about how the media's coverage of the protests, the images and the language that is used, and how it shapes the narrative and influences public opinion and policy.

Calling out active duty troops to quell widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd is an option congressional Democrats are warning would only make matters worse.

Mail-in ballots were so popular in Pennsylvania that it could take up to a week until all races are called.

Final results might not be available for a week, but these measures rarely fail.

Trump announced the news via tweet, complaining the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, “refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena."

The Associated Press is calling the race for the Democratic challenger, but mail-in ballots have yet to be released.

The polls have closed in Pennsylvania. Check here for live updates on election results.

WHYY reporters chronicle how protests, looting and the police response have escalated in Philly, taking us deep into what they've seen, heard and experienced on the ground.

The Philly DA’s office has fielded less than a third the usual number of complaints.

The primary was delayed because of COVID-19 and many voters chose to cast a ballot by mail instead.

In his first public appearance outside of Delaware in months, Biden said he would “seek to heal the racial wounds” in a speech from Philadelphia’s City Hall.

"He used violent means to ask to be escorted across the park into the courtyard of the church," Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington told NPR.

We talk about the protests over police violence against black Americans, the political implications, the public reaction and what comes next.

The upbraiding from the White House didn't sit well with many governors, who have been busy responding to clashes between protesters and police in dozens of cities.

"I was outraged that he felt that he had the license to do that, and that he would abuse our sacred symbols and our sacred space in that way," Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said.