Catharine Richert

Rabbi Adam Stock Spilker's memories of living in Israel with his wife and three kids are infused with sounds, smells and the country's striking landscape.

At Mercy Vineyard Church, a crowd has gathered for plates of pasta and a crash course in becoming peacemakers in politically polarized times.

This election season, MPR News invited its audience to learn more about people on the other side of the political spectrum through an initiative called “Walk a Mile in My News.” Two of our participants, a Democrat and a Republican, swapped their go-to news sources and then let us record their conversations. They had far more in common than they expected.

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At least one study shows the 2024 election has spiked unusually high levels of anxiety in many people. Here’s how two family and marriage therapists suggest we can lower the temperature in our minds and in our relationships, regardless of the election’s outcome.

President-elect Donald Trump made notable inroads with Latino voters this year, particularly among young men. One such voter’s family history provides a window into Trump’s appeal.

MPR News senior politics reporter Clay Masters looks back on the 2024 election campaign for the Iowa Caucus to election events leading up to this week when President-elect Trump stepped back into the White House.

Faith leaders in Minnesota are trying to build bridges at a time of intense political polarization.

A simmering conflict between the top elected prosecutor in a rural county south of the Twin Cities and the board that controls his budget erupted in public this week.