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The term "Pro-Government Conservatives" is a new grouping in the Pew Research Center's typology of voters. The group tends to live south of the Mason Dixon line, religion is important to them, and many of the women work. Family and finances are big concerns for them.

A coalition of health clinics in northeast California is asking local officials to defend the Affordable Care Act. And some are, despite the area's conservative politics.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lee Hale, host of the podcast, Preach, about his conversations with people who are struggling with their faith.

The president blamed a "partisan whistleblower," whose identity he said he didn't know, for an allegation that Trump had an improper conversation with a foreign leader.

Over the weekend, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam called for more conversations about race. But the calls for productive dialogue around race rarely lead to them.

More than a decade after his debut, We the Animals, Justin Torres returns with a novel that centers on a deathbed conversation between two friends about the distortions and erasures of queer history.

Vin Weber, policy chairman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, says some conservatives have spoken out strongly against John McCain, but that was easier to do when they had Romney as an alternative.

Donna Cooner's new young adult novel, Skinny, follows Ever, an obese teenage girl who decides to have weight loss surgery. Reviewer Jennifer Longmire-Wright says Skinny is the start of an important conversation for overweight teens — but doesn't adequately portray the difficulties of surgery.

The five remaining Republican candidates are aiming to gain an edge with Nevada voters before Tuesday's caucuses. But the issues important to conservatives vary.

President Barack Obama's budget proposal is placing conservative Democrats in a tight spot. Republicans are asking them to be fiscally cautious. Liberals are targeting them with a barrage of ads, urging them to support the president's budget.

In a recorded conversation between Donald Trump and his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, the men discuss buying the rights to the story of a Playboy playmate who alleges she had an affair with Trump.

A bill banning conversion therapy for LGBT minors played out in a very personal way in the Maryland legislature. Erin Cox of the Baltimore Sun tells NPR's Michel Martin about the family drama.

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

In The Conservative Soul, Andrew Sullivan argues for getting back to the basics of conservatism: limited government, balanced budgets, individual liberty. He says the Republican-controlled U.S. government has strayed from these fundamentals.

Mona Charen is a conservative columnist for National Review and a member of the "Never Trump" movement. She shares her reaction to the election of Donald Trump.

At the Values Voters Summit, thousands of conservative Christians are expressing their simmering frustration toward Republicans in Congress for not doing enough to support President Trump.

The Republican Party is set to adopt a platform with reliably conservative positions, even as the country has moved in a liberal direction.

Conversion therapy aims to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. The practice is discredited by mental health professionals and is linked to higher rates of suicide.

More details emerge about the alleged shooter of conservative organizer Charlie Kirk.

An Israeli cabinet minister has backed the discredited practice of conversion therapy, drawing objections from LGBTQ activists and the prime minister.