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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Amanda Mull, a staff writer for The Atlantic, about what we lose when we no longer have relationships with the peripheral people in our lives due to the pandemic.

Moderna is rapidly increasing production of COVID-19 vaccine for the U.S., and Pfizer is lagging behind. NPR looks at the production trends to see what it means for vaccination drives.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michelle Duster about her new biography of her great grandmother, Ida B. Wells, Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells.

NPR looks into former President Donald Trump's two impeachment defense lawyers who are heading his upcoming Senate trial: David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr.

The two companies producing COVID-19 vaccines for use in the United States will have to raise production to meet contractual goals of 100 million doses each by the end of March.

The average global temperatures in 2020 and 2016 were within a few hundredths of a degree. The Earth is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer now than it was in the middle of the 20th century.

From 100,000 cases a day in September, India is now down to about 10,000 a day. Is it climate? Demographics? Mask mandates? Scientists are looking for answers.

The freshman congresswoman is facing blowback from Democrats and within her own party for her extreme, baseless theories surrounding American politics.

Sociologist, criminologist, and former jail chaplain Reuben Jonathan Miller says "no other marginalized group ... experience[s] [the] profound level of legal exclusion" that those once imprisoned do.

Economists say the initial Cash for Clunkers plan was inefficient. But they say a revised Biden administration plan aimed at trading in gas guzzlers for electric vehicles could be effective.

Former President Trump remains the gravitational center of the GOP. But some Republicans point to the party's losses in Georgia this month as a warning about embracing the 45th president too closely.

Poet Jackie Wang's collection is a surrealist expression of how social processes and traumas show up in our dreams and how we can better understand ourselves by tuning in to them.

The armed forces will likely find it harder to rule a changed Myanmar on its own — and the world should convince it not to, argues Charles Dunst of the East-West Center in Washington.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Biden economic advisor Jared Bernstein about the White House push for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, and Republican efforts to scale it down.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., about the Republican's plan for new COVID-19 relief legislation and his meeting with President Biden Monday on winning bipartisan support.

President Biden has been working to unwind many of the executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump. But the administration has warned that the changes will take time.

People 65 and older are priortized for vaccinations, but it's not always obvious how they should find a place to actually get a site. Efforts to help them are a hodgepodge nationwide.

The spread of new strains raises new questions as two COVID-19 vaccines continue their rollout across the U.S. and another vaccine candidate preps for regulatory review. Here's what you need to know.

Browns' season ticket holder Jeff Panovich will donate his epic ponytail to a nonprofit that makes wigs for kids, according to the Port Clinton News Herald.

General Motors announced a goal of phasing out gas-powered vehicles by 2035. It's part of an industry-wide — and potentially economy-wide — transformation in order to fight climate change.