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The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

Next week, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol finally arrives in paperback, along with Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton's memoir, journalist Fareed Zakaria's update on the post-American world, journalist Annie Jacobsen's look inside a top secret U.S. military base, and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff's true tale of the survivors in a WWII plane crash.

It was former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first debate after spending more than $300 million on ads. He had an uneven performance, especially when it came to his record on women.

Turnstile ascends. Pulp returns. Little Simz blooms. WTMD's Izzi Bavis joins Stephen Thompson to discuss the week's most compelling new releases.

Some of the nominations were expected — The Bear earned 23 nominations and Shogun received 25 nods. But the Television Academy still had a few surprises up its sleeve.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won narrowly, but can he expand his base? Pete Buttigieg again did well, but in another largely white state. And the story of the night was Sen. Amy Klobuchar's third-place finish.

Members of the Jan. 6 committee are pursuing additional witnesses and say they are receiving a lot of new evidence. Their public hearings are now going to extend into July.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol has voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump to question him about what he knew beforehand and how he reacted during the attack.

NPR's Ari Shapiro went to Kiev this month planning to report several feature stories on the Ukrainian revolution. Instead, he found himself documenting a country edging toward civil war.

Congressional Republicans hope to pass a sweeping tax overhaul before Christmas, but first they'll have to resolve some major policy differences that could derail the bill.