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Stoppard, who died Nov. 29, wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Thing, and the screenplays for Empire of the Sun and Shakespeare in Love. Originally broadcast in 1991.

It's safe to say that e-books disrupted the publishing industry. But sales have leveled off and not entirely for the reasons some have reported.

Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of few remaining Republican senators who voted to convict President Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump endorsed his opponent, Rep. Julia Letlow.

Commentator Julie Zickefoose and her husband Bill both maintain their own Web blogs. She knows that their obsessive quests to keep those blogs interesting are changing their relationship, but she hasn't figured out how, yet.

Wealthy jet-setters brought some of the first cases of the coronavirus into Mexico. But it's the poor who've suffered disproportionately, and the government's done little to ease their economic pain.

Teens and young adults have a growing problem with sports betting and gaming. How can parents talk to their kids about gambling before it becomes a problem?

A cilantro shortage has lead to a spike in price for the herb - and that is making tacos more expensive in Mexico.

Authorities say the suspect who shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, drove from his home in Bellingham, Washington, to carry out the attack. Here's how that city is reacting.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers some of the 27 young people who perished at Camp Mystic in the catastrophic flooding of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, July 4th.

Nearly 60 years ago, when she was 16, Denise Elliott brought a friend to the Bahamas for a vacation. What happened has stayed with her ever since.

Misty Copeland was the first Black principal dancer at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre.

Hundreds of flights were canceled at Newark as air traffic controller shortages, old tech and construction collided. The Department of Transportation a major fix.

Brown was shot and killed in his car by sheriff's deputies more than a year ago. The family of Andrew Brown Jr. had filed a $30 million civil rights lawsuit in 2021.

There's a lot of debate right now about debating as Gov. Ron DeSantis and several Republican gubernatorial candidates are criticizing how the Florida GOP says only U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds qualified for one.

The eye of Helene crashed into Florida's Big Bend region as a major hurricane. It brought punishing winds, a worrying storm surge and concern for those far inland as the storm moves north.

For defendants facing criminal charges from the Justice Department, the costs of fighting are enormous and can reverberate for years, according to veteran attorneys.

In his elder years, Martin Scorsese seems to be questioning his complicity as a filmmaker. He's not renouncing his prior artistic choices but he's cognizant of how the world around him has shifted.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Republican Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri about the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Smith opposes the bill, which the House is expected to vote on Wednesday.

Even as an anti-immigrant president takes office in the United States, migrants are moving north. NPR asks, why?

A forthcoming book traces the lost history of a musical genre too good to be true: funerary violin. Despite questions about the authenticity of the material, the book's U.S. publisher says it's an "amazing piece of work."

President Obama announced an executive action on immigration this week. For an in-depth look at the issue, author Gustavo Arellano recommends two nonfiction collections about Mexican immigrants.

Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room. Within months, he became the youngest self-made billionaire in history. Ben Mezrich's new book The Accidental Billionaires charts his meteoric rise.

Sebastian Junger set out to write a book about a murder that occurred in the quiet neighborhood where he grew up. For Junger, the story of who killed Bessie Goldberg hit close to home in more than one way.

The gay activist, journalist, and sex advice columnist talks about the evolution of readers' questions, and dispels the notion of "normalcy" when it comes to dating.

Some people use sarcasm jokingly. But funnily enough, we tend not to find it witty when we're on the receiving end.