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How can we succeed in creating and perpetuating a culture that values and promotes truth? Cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo considers the science of fake news — and how to protect ourselves.

Even musicians world-famous for manipulating darkness say they feared Haino, a legendary figure within avant-garde sound — until they realized he had a sense of humor, too.

Jan Morris chronicles the final days of the most powerful warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy in her latest book. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Battleship Yamato a work of both power and restraint.

In a time of deep political divisions, President Trump's budget blueprint for next year would combine the Community Relations Service with the Civil Rights Division.

The recent Facebook data-mining scandal is increasing public attention on the way big tech companies pay only minimal taxes in Europe. Now, the European Union wants to change that.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the expulsion of Russian diplomats are the result of "colossal blackmail" by the U.S.. That so many nations are taking part, he said, shows how few truly independent countries are left in the world.

As a kid, Cedric Habiyaremye used to go hungry living in a refugee camp. Now, he's an aspiring plant scientist hoping to bring nutrient-rich crops to his country.

The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville always books a wide range of artists, but this year something particular was afoot.

Uber is selling off its operations in Southeast Asia to a local rival named Grab.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools plans to review bus stop and transportation safety procedures after an Olympic High School student was struck and killed…

Inspired by J.S. Bach, jazz pianist Brad Mehldau alternates originals from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier with his own reinventions.

The Green Party has become North Carolina's fourth official political party thanks to a new law offering more options to qualify, giving more candidate...

Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser talks with NPR's David Greene about why his country is standing in solidarity with other countries and expelling a Russian military attaché.

We review, with as few spoilers as possible, the beginning of the end of FX's starkly intimate series about: 1. Spycraft, 2. Marriage, 3. The 1980s and 4. Wigs.

French cartoonist Yvan Alagbé uses a stark black and white palette to investigate the ways Western comics portray race — and the ways his country treats (and mistreats) its immigrant population.

A pastor with roots in North Carolina who has been accused of aiding a failed 2016 coup d’etat in Turkey and has been held in prison ever since has lost…

Lonnie Swartz is on trial for murder more than five years after he shot through a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, killing a teenager on the other side.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is firing Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and replacing him with the White House doctor in the wake of a…

Harding University High School students learned how to help save their friends from bleeding to death from a gunshot wound Wednesday as an emergency room…

What happens when you put someone who wants to close an agency, in charge of that agency? Today on the show, we find out.