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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Nobel-Prize winning author Han Kang about her latest novel, "We Do Not Part."

José "Cha Cha" Jimenez, a Puerto Rican activist in Chicago, died last week. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with DePaul University professor Jacqueline Lazú about his life and legacy.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Yossi Mekelberg of Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Program, about the Israeli political response to a negotiated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Five years after the start of the COVID crisis - is the U.S. more prepared to handle another pandemic?

Syrians are still celebrating the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime, but that enthusiasm is tempered these days.

The old growth forests of Western North Carolina took a beating from Hurricane Helene. Now they've lost a bid for federal protection. This worries advocates that the forests could soon vanish.

We look at what the Department of Justice has and hasn't done on war crimes under outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland.

As insurance companies stop covering high-risk properties, or they leave markets altogether, more than 30 states now offer so-called "last resort" insurance. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Doug Heller, at the Consumer Federation of America, who says putting all risky plans in one basket is a disaster waiting to happen.

Even as an anti-immigrant president takes office in the United States, migrants are moving north. NPR asks, why?

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are out of quarantine and in the spotlight after a three-month wait and 8,000 mile trip from China.

Europe's top human rights court ruled the woman's right to respect for private and family life had been violated when French courts found her solely at fault for her divorce because she withheld sex.

Is the love song dying? NPR's Juana Summers speaks David Mora and Michelle Jia about their recent essay in The Pudding, which set out to answer that question.

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.

It's Oscar season, a perfect occasion to look at why the Academy Awards gets things wrong so often.

Meet ALICE. It's an alternative inflation metric, designed to measure the effects on price movements on economically stressed households better than more traditional models like CPI.

Record snow fall in New Orleans this week disrupted the delivery of the famous king cakes to carnival events in Washington DC. this weekend.

A small army of activists has mobilized to try to hold landlords accountable for price gouging on their rental listings after the Los Angeles wildfires.

The order bars the government from "any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen" and orders an investigation into the Biden administration's actions.

The International Criminal Court, a U.N. agency, has to approve the warrants. They've been condemned by the Taliban and welcomed by Afghan women and their advocates — with some reservations.

Critics of Trump's order to pull out of the WHO say it makes room for China to grow in its influence. But Trump says he's leaving the WHO partly because of China's influence. Policy analysts weigh in.