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With surgical care on the rise globally, researchers worry the energy-consuming procedures will have a negative impact on the climate. But they say there are ways to make them more energy efficient.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Chris Lu, who led the Obama-Biden transition team in 2008, about how the General Services Administration facilitates transitions between presidents.

We look at the history of zombies and the American obsession with them.

The strange tradition of a president pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving happened again despite Trump holding few public events since losing — and not accepting — the 2020 election.

Some business transactions that would have been done in person have been moved online during the coronavirus pandemic. A Charlotte organization has noticed that this transition has been harder for Latino small business owners who have been depending on paper documents and face-to-face meetings.

Financial adviser Carl Richards gave himself bad advice. During the housing boom, Richards bought a place in Las Vegas with no down payment. He then borrowed more money against his home, and when the economy tanked, he was forced to sell the house for less than the original loan. Richards talks to Linda Wertheimer about an article he wrote for The New York Times, which led to his new book The Behavior Gap.

The shutdown of an auto plant in northeast Ohio in 2019 looms large in the presidential race. Ohio is a state that Trump won easily in 2016, but it is in toss-up territory now.

Each a virtuoso in their own right, longtime friends and Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn team up for a tradition-blending debut album of folk music.

Two decades and two months ago, an unruly, exuberant quartet of rappers from South Central Los Angeles called The Pharcyde loosed their debut album upon the world. Tonight the two halves perform thousands of miles apart.

Judas and the Black Messiahchronicles the life of Illinois Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton through the eyes of William O'Neal — the man who infiltrated the group on behalf of the FBI.

A seashell found in a French cave appears to have been modified by prehistoric people so that it could be used like a trumpet, making it a new addition to the Stone Age orchestra.

Almost a year ago, the U.S. economy started its plunge. This week, NPR is launching American Indicators, a series that will personalize the big economic stories we hear every day.

The virtual Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday night. NPR discusses what to expect.

A comprehensive new report from UNICEF calls attention to the surge in obesity in developing countries — even as they're dealing with children who are undernourished.

As the Trump administration calls for expanding access to Medicare Advantage, a federal whistleblower lawsuit accuses a large Medicare Advantage plan of bilking Medicare out of $8 million.

The smiles are all forced and the outfits color-coded in this tale of female one-up-manship. "It's gloriously nonsensical," says our critic, "and yet it reverberates with eerie truth."

A comedian who has often found the laughs in anxiety, she reflects on her start in stand-up, being a shy kid and her experience in television writers' rooms in a public conversation.

Booksellers often talk about discoverability — the ability to help readers find books publishers want them to buy. And increasingly, celebrity book clubs are a way to get books into readers' hands.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Sean Miyashiro, founder of 88rising, a media company that focuses on promoting the work of Asian artists and musicians.

When large companies move into an area, politicians often proclaim how the new business will create jobs, increase tax revenues, and thus lead to economic…