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It's the July edition of Midday at the Movies, and Tom is joined again by two of our favorite movie mavens -- Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and…

Hello and Happy Holidays! Welcome to the Midday Christmas Eve Special, with host Tom Hall. Today, we’ll spend the hour listening to some music and some…

Hello and Happy Holidays! Welcome to the Midday Christmas Eve Special, with host Tom Hall. Today, we’ll spend the hour listening to some music and some…

Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. As an increasing number of people travel to Maryland to seek abortions, we hear about an effort to train more health professionals in reproductive care.

The Daily Beast is enjoying some success with an unusual pairing of reporters at the White House. Asawin Suebsaeng came from Mother Jones and Lachlan Markay wrote for a series of conservative publications before joining the publication. Editor-in-chief John Avlon says he thinks the pairing is helping their coverage stand out.

Recently there's been a little more interest than usual in the Civil War, owing to the 150th anniversary of the historic event. Even so, fewer people are donning Union and Confederate gear and participating in historical reenactments. And as those who have been re-enacting for decades retire from the battlefields, many wonder who will take their place.

Little Willie Adams, a Baltimore businessman, made significant impacts in entertainment, politics, and business.

Painted window screens are a unique folk art tradition in Baltimore, started in 1913 by a grocer to display produce without putting it outdoors.

In the summer of 1864, a year and a half after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves in the Confederate states to be free. It would…

Today, we revisit a conversation about Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the six-lane street that loops around downtown Baltimore. Does it reflect the…

A bill before the General Assembly would require every public school in Maryland to hire a school resource officer with law-enforcement authority. We talk…

Tourette syndrome and tics—what are these two neurological disorders, how do they differ and how are they treated is the subject of this month’s episode of Your Child’s Brain.

Started in 1828, St. Frances Academy is the oldest predominantly African American Catholic high school in the country.

When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.

For the first time this year, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge handed the mic over to fourth graders. Here's two of our judges' favorite entries.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association, about the resolution of the West Virginia teachers strike. Lee has taught in West Virginia public schools for 22 years.

At a federal prison in rural Virginia, more than 50 prisoners say they've been abused. But when they try to file a complaint — they're stopped, often by the same guards they say are abusing them.

Deer are becoming a growing problem for agriculture in the South. They eat up valuable crops and there's little farmers can do to keep them out their fields.

Page two of the New York Times today contains an article acknowledging that the paper could have improved its coverage of the Wen Ho Lee case. Among its admissions: the Times says it made the mistake of taking on the tone of some of the government's positions in the investigation of Wen Ho Lee. Robert Siegel discusses the article with Sandy Padwe, Former Deputy Sports Editor for the New York Times, now a professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Noah talks with William Lee, a professor of journalism at the University of Georgia, about the Richard Jewell case. Lee discusses whether the news media should be held liable for publicizing that Jewell was a lead suspect in the July 27 bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. An attorney for Richard Jewell today said he expected to bring lawsuits against NBC-TV news anchor Tom Brokaw and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper for defamation of character.