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In Where the Water Goes, David Owen uses the history of the Colorado River to lay out the immense complexity of America's water situation, reminding us that both water and time are finite resources.

How do you feel about some baseball in your beer? Fans of the Atlanta Braves can imbibe on beer that has been aged on wood chips that are basically the waste that comes from making baseball bats.

The airline overbooked and said it need his seat and three others. Refusing to leave, he was dragged off the plane. According to a witness, the man said he was targeted for being Chinese.

Syria will be the focus of U.S. talks with Russia. Rachel Martin talks to Ben Rhodes, ex-deputy national security adviser, who defends the Obama administration for not taking military action in Syria.

On Tuesday, a new plan to expand Medicaid coverage in North Carolina was rolled out. But this one is different. It's proposed by a powerful Republican…

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Frederic Hof, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, about what shape the U.S. strategy in Syria will take after the military action in response to the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Kim Marten, professor of political science at Barnard College and director of U.S. Russian Relations Program at Columbia, ahead of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Moscow.

Proposed budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency could leave state environmental agencies doing more with less money. But many say they are already strapped.

Jeff Tweedy strips down Wilco, Loose Fur and Golden Smog songs on Together At Last.

Arkansas says it will execute seven death row inmates by the end of the month. Why the rush? The lethal injection drugs are set to expire. We’ll look at the controversy.

There are concerns North Korea could conduct a nuclear weapons test over the weekend. And in Turkey, approval of a constitutional referendum on Sunday would grant the country's president more power.

North Korea marks its founder's birthday. Turkish voters go to the polls for a draft constitution. Ishaan Tharoor of The Washington Post joins the conversation. Kendrick Lamar releases a new album.

Steve Inskeep talks to VA Inspector General Michael Missal about an investigation into the D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center. It found serious issues regarding the handling of medical equipment.

The death this week of J. Geils Band co-founder and guitarist Jay Geils prompts a look back at the strange, between-worlds year of music in which the group cemented its legacy.

The Buckingam-penned "In My World" is immediately familiar to anyone who's spent many nights pouring over the swift guitar work and swaying grooves of Rumours.

Philadelphia is where America's Founding Fathers wrote The Constitution, and to celebrate that, we made a final round where every answer contains either the word RED, WHITE or BLUE.

Contestants guess the names of these fictional hotels from the fake reviews we've created for them.

Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution this week condemning the chemical weapons attack in Syria after an intense debate over who was to blame for the conflict.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti talks with Tim Berners-Lee about his concerns, and his ideas about how to address the problem.

The newest installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise is out Friday, and the stakes are higher than ever. And as the stakes scaled up, so did the damages.