Victor Couto

In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.

High-stakes debates put candidates in the hot seat. But are they helpful to voters?

Sometimes the most important speech at the convention isn’t delivered by the nominee.

Coronavirus songwriting has gone as global as the pandemic itself, creating a new genre called pandemic pop. It’s a tradition with a long history.

LSD has long been associated with 1960s counterculture. Today, psychedelic drugs are back in the lab, providing hope for people who suffer from anxiety, depression and addiction.

Today’s immigration policies echo an anti-immigration movement from the 1990s in California.

Retro Report explores decades of conspiracy theories – from the John F. Kennedy assassination to Pizzagate – and what they can tell us about how we view the world today.

There are important lessons to be learned from the Democrats’ 1968 Chicago convention.

In 1831, a radical third party had a new idea for selecting a presidential candidate, and it’s still in use today: the national nominating convention.

In this Emmy Award-nominated film, top national political reporters admit mistakes in their reporting on the 2016 election campaign.

Today’s immigration policies echo an anti-immigration movement 25 years ago in California.

The story of the veterans who witnessed secret atomic testing and how their decades-long struggle for recognition affects soldiers today. This story is a coproduction with Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

This Emmy Award-nominated film explores tensions between the press and presidents, charges of liberal media bias and the decline in public trust in journalism. Watch the documentary.

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.

Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t the first time the Republican Party was split by an outsider declaring war on the establishment elite.

More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.

In this Emmy Award-nominated film, journalists who covered the 2016 presidential campaign now offer a candid analysis of their role in President Trump’s rise to power.

Newborns today are tested for genetic and immune disorders that might not be apparent at birth. The tests evolved from the treatment of a patient with a rare diagnosis who became known as “the Boy in the Bubble.”

Overdose deaths are skyrocketing, forcing researchers to find new ways to think about and treat addiction.

This Emmy Award-nominated film looks at how the journalistic instinct for “balanced” reporting on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016 played out.

Immigration has been a defining issue in a campaign before, and the consequences transformed the Democratic Party.

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the icons of an ideological split among today’s Democrats, echoing a similar split in the Republican party of 1964.

A whistleblower case from 2010 reveals the peril faced by whistleblowers seeking to expose wrongdoing.

In this Emmy Award-nominated film, CEO Jeff Zucker acknowledges missteps in CNN’s 2016 campaign coverage, when many media outlets covered Donald Trump’s campaign as a spectacle.

In 1948, World War II aviators risked their lives in a secret operation to smuggle weapons and planes to the Israeli military.

Plant-based meats may be high tech, but the ideas behind them have been around for decades.