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Harper, who died Saturday, was known for his jazz-influenced poems. His first volume of poetry, Dear John, Dear Coltrane, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1978. Originally broadcast in 2000.

A small team at Johns Hopkins University early on created what's become one of the most authoritative interactive online dashboards, tracking COVID-19 data around the world.

The Utah senator outed himself over the weekend as the owner of a mostly nondescript Twitter handle that defended Romney and was critical of President Trump.

Two veteran directors adapted the Broadway shows to film. And while many such translations are too stage-bound, critic David Edelstein says Clint Eastwood and Roman Polanski got the balance right.

After being hit by back-to-back hurricanes on top of the pandemic, families from Honduras are leaving the country in waves to cross the Southern border into the U.S. for a better life.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to John Kirby, White House National Security Council spokesperson, about the administration's decision to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

The housing bill that has passed the House would help struggling homeowners with new, more affordable mortgages. The measure would keep them from losing their homes through foreclosures and would require the cooperation of their current lenders.

The 2009 Social Security and Medicare Trustees report released Tuesday showed the funds will be exhausted a couple of years sooner than was reported last year. That's largely because high unemployment rates mean a lower level of payroll tax receipts being paid in to both programs. On the other hand, compared to what's happened to many private retirement accounts, Social Security is looking pretty healthy.

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, which opened the Catholic Church's window onto the modern world. Among other things, it gave a larger role to lay people and updated the liturgy. But the changes provoked a backlash, the effects of which are being felt even today.

Didion's book is an intimate chronicle of the author's struggle to help her daughter, even if it meant digging into her own long-unexamined neuroses.

Federal officials are trying to quell outrage over migrant families and their advocates describing bureaucratic obstacles and frantic searches for children who were separated from their parents and sent to youth shelters around the country.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with New York Times reporter John Ismay about his investigation into the deadly history of unexploded cluster bombs accidentally killing U.S. troops that handle them.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with John King, Chancellor of State University of New York and former education secretary, about the changes at the U.S. Department of Education this week.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) talks about his new memoir, "Unfettered," and some of the views that have put him at odds with other members of his party.

After a Democratic bill and a GOP bill both failed in the Senate, leaders looked for a way forward Thursday. But Democrats reiterated their opposition to border wall funding, "prorated or otherwise."

As we unpack St. Louis' long, tense history of racial unrest amid continuing protests in Ferguson, Mo., we find striking parallels between the events of years past and those of the past few weeks.

Pierce Brosnan has left James Bond behind, but he struggles for his footing in an action thriller he himself fought hard to bring to the screen.

You've probably heard it said that the 2020 general election is the most important election of our lifetime. (We hear that every four years.) Every…

Tens of millions of U.S. homes are threatened by rising seas. Communities across the country are planning for that future, but there are challenges to even having the discussion.

Hicks, who died on Saturday, began performing with his band Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks in the late '60s. Rock historian Ed Ward has an appreciation. Originally broadcast Jan 10, 2002.