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For decades, the U.S. medical system has adhered to a legally recognized standard for death, one embraced by most states. Why is a uniform standard for the start of human life proving so elusive?

Journalist Nathan Hodge is the co-author of the book A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry with his wife, Sharon Weinberger. They traveled to 10 U.S. states and 4 foreign countries to visit nuclear sites, including ones in Nevada, Russia and Iran.

It's a new school year and Jake Miller is not setting up his classroom in Pennsylvania. He's not getting to know a new group of eighth-graders. After 15 years of teaching, he quit.

Jazz and classical music have merged many times in the past and not always with pleasing results. But on the new album Caribbean Rhapsody, James Carter's saxophones combined with Roberto Sierra's compositions may set a new standard for collaborating.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ali Vitali, an NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent, about her new book Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House... Yet.

The lab behind the artificial intelligence art tool is giving access to up to a million people on its waiting list, just as worries grow about possible abuse.

We hear the former president striving to court Woodward's favor, praising him as "a great historian" and "the great Bob Woodward." Yet these interviews veer often into disagreements and even debates.

Bella's sense of style is quirky and powerful, but some have wondered: Does she have a great eye or do most clothes just suit her model-thin body?

Artist and author Deena Mohamed created a graphic novel about how wishes would — or wouldn't — work in modern-day Egypt. Her much-praised book is now out in English. It's ... a wish come true!

At this time of year, people travel to be with their families. And Broadway and Hollywood have been giving them something to sing about: Traveling-song show tunes.

NPR is pulling together some of its favorite stories from 2022 that may have been easy to miss among the year's major news but hard to forget. Thursday, NPR shares its favorite musical moments.

NPR's Ailsa Chang chats with Brandon Kyle Goodman about their book You Gotta Be You: How to Embrace This Messy Life and Step Into Who You Really Are.

The field of Democratic presidential hopefuls has begun to shrink in advance of, and because of, this week's debate. The new, more rigorous rules instituted by the party are causing some controversy.

House Democrats pointed to Duval County as a cautionary tale in its opposition to a federal bill that mirrors aspects of Florida's new "parental rights" and book laws.

In his new book Of Boys and Men, Richard V. Reeves of the Brookings Institution argues that men must move into fields that are now dominated by women to reverse economic declines.

NPR's Eric Deggans talks with director Ryan Coogler about his latest film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Over 13 days beginning on Oct. 16, 1962, the U.S. and Soviet Union were at the brink of a nuclear conflict. But since the Cold War ended, some historical assumptions about the crisis have changed.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with actress Gabrielle Dennis about her new role in the Apple TV+ series The Big Door Prize.

Politics is never far from controversy — be it Supreme Court rulings, guns or terrorist attacks, like the one in Paris. President Obama — and the candidates trying to replace him — all weighed in.

In the far northern region of snow-capped peaks, glaciers, rivers and orchards, domestic visitors are earning a bad reputation.

They don't say "Detroit Vs. Everybody" for nothing: Dismissed from the outside and splintered within, Michigan's rap cities turned scrap-or-die underdog status into a gritty aesthetic all its own.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author Hila Blum about her novel How to Love Your Daughter, which seems to pose a question: is there such a thing as loving too much?

The book addresses the many myths that are held about Black people, their corrosive effects, and how to begin to overcome them.

Geraldo Rivera leaves Fox News. He was a war correspondent, a host, a Trump supporter and, in his later years, an unexpected voice of reason — but above all, he was a showman.

Getting COVID-19 tests and vaccine to essential workers on commercial farms and in meatpacking plants requires more than a pop-up clinic miles away. A positive test can be financially devastating.