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Swensen made billions for Yale and revolutionized the way Universities and other nonprofits invest. And he strove to teach everyday people how to invest without getting fleeced by Wall Street.

Mounting COVID-19 travel restrictions are meant to contain the Indian variant. But citizens and visitors alike are feeling frustrated.

In his debut book Evolution Gone Wrong, Alex Bezzerides mixes the technical anatomical stuff we need to know with vivid examples and humorous phrases — in offering us some answers.

Barry Jenkins' adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad reaches us at a time when we are most prepared for its message, but severely challenged by its delivery system.

The very antithesis of a fox-taming tale, Catherine Raven's memoir shows us that we are surrounded by wild animals who make thoughtful decisions and experience joys and sorrows on their own terms.

A new Netflix documentary about tennis superstar Naomi Osaka is a poignant, albeit curated, portrait of a young biracial woman navigating the precipice of sports superstardom.

It's been a year since a wildfire consumed vast portions of two northern California counties. Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, the Kitchen Sisters, bring us reflections from the survivors.

Jon Stewart hosts his last episode of The Daily Show tonight, after 16 years as TV's satirist supreme. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says Stewart's barbs changed how people talk about politics and media.

America's hospitals are already strained from the delta surge. Now they fear they'll be further overwhelmed by pent-up demand for services and a potentially bad flu season.

Orlean's descriptions of the animals on the Hudson Valley farm where she once lived may evoke a warm feeling — but those of donkeys in Fez and others in her essays may conjure other emotions.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Bonnie Glaser, director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund about the rising tensions between China and Taiwan and how the U.S. fits in.

As sea levels rise, coastal flooding that used to happen only during storms is increasingly occurring on sunny days. That has local officials reconsidering everything from zoning to police budgets.

The primatologist says it's crucial that young people know how positive action can still shift the frightening trajectories of climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing global pandemic.

The outbreak of COVID-19 in southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas has become the nation's largest and is mostly driven by the highly contagious delta variant.

Those affected so far may seem pretty boring, but agencies from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Federal Reserve could be in the crosshairs.

Many athletes on Team USA are vocal about the struggles of being a mom and a star athlete, as are mothers from other nations. At the Tokyo Olympics, they're using their platform to make a change.

Robin Thede's wide-ranging career has included stints in both journalism and comedy. Now, at The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, she's the first black woman to work as a head writer in late night TV.

Wes Anderson's meticulously-constructed tenth feature adopts the format of a New Yorker-like Sunday magazine supplement to tell three very different, but equally idiosyncratic, love stories.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Rashawn Ray about the nuances and problems associated with citizen's arrest laws.

Scott Simon talks with author and critic Isaac Butler about his new book, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act."