Rebecca Simonitsch
Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
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A new survey from the University of Michigan asks parents about their use of technology to track their adult children, ages 18 to 25, including using 'always on' location tracking on their cellphones.
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Heather Diehl/Getty ImagesMichel Martin speaks with Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia about his new book, "The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America."
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Multidisciplinary artist Lex Marie has gone viral on TikTok and Instagram for her artwork confronting discipline within Black households. -
The South African musician's "Mannenberg" was often called his country's unofficial anthem during the final years of apartheid. -
The 2026 World Cup is playing out in communities across the country. Journalists from NPR and its member stations are in your city — capturing the excitement and asking the important questions. -
Author and relationship coach Allison Raskin doesn’t see falling marriage rates as necessarily a bad thing. -
Carol Burnside of Baltimore, who describes herself as a quilter for racial justice, talks about how the American flag is inspiring her art this summer. -
In America, U.S.A., Princeton historian Eddie Glaude Jr. looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. "The divided soul of the nation is in full view," he says. -
Summer is the perfect time to go back to great books that whizzed by in spring, including The Family Man, by James Lasdun, The Hill, by Harriet Clark and A Beautiful Loan, by Mary Costello -
Juneteenth is often told as an American story. But it's been celebrated for generations in Corina Torralba Harrington's hometown in Mexico by descendants of Black Seminoles.
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What is a Knickerbocker? NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to Peter-Christian Aigner, Director of the Gotham Center, to find out.
