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Ice cream thefts are up way up in New York City. Why would thieves steal something that depreciates so rapidly?

Maude Graham talks to children about how failure isn't a dead-end, how they must have a plan B and plan C in place, and encourages them to avoid a fixed mindset which means making the same mistake again and again.

Tariffs are driving prices up on lots of things Americans buy. Martha Gimbel of Yale's Budget Lab takes an imaginary walk through a big box store to examine how much more consumers will have to pay.

We visit The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, where a white supremacist mass shooting took place 12 years ago.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky about how the recent Supreme Court immunity ruling -- and a second Trump presidency -- could affect the U.S.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., about his recent trip to the occupied West Bank and temporary detention by Israeli settlers and soldiers.

Millions of low-income Americans live in old homes that are crumbling, worsening the housing shortage. A first-of-its-kind program in Pennsylvania aims to help whole communities damaged by disrepair.

NPR staffers take on a perennial question: What makes for a good summer movie?

As overdose kills more young people, some colleges and students are finding ways to better respond. A group is organizing students on 28 campuses to distribute and use Narcan.

With waters rising and their hospital on the verge of losing power, Memorial Medical Center staff were faced with an ethical question: Who to save first? Sheri Fink reconstructs their decisions — from hastening patients' deaths to evacuating the sickest last — in Five Days at Memorial.

The Houston rapper's newest hit is the 83rd song in chart history to debut at the very top of Billboard's Hot 100. More than half of the songs to achieve the feat have done so in the last five years.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Bloomberg reporter and author Francis Barry about his travels along a route once known as the Lincoln Highway, and the people he met.

A California high school is staging an original musical called Ranked, set in a world where class rank means everything, and some parents are willing to pay for their student to get a better spot.

Casey Johnston spent years running and restricting calories. When she started weightlifting, she rebuilt muscle mass — and her relationship with her body.

The Florida Panhandle organization voted that officials should not cooperate with Biden's administration.

Though John Moe's podcast, 'The Hilarious World of Depression' centers on mental illness, the conversations are funny. Humor "can bust me out" of a dark place, he says, the way platitudes never would.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalist Rebecca Nagle about Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation.

Shrimper Ricky Robin rode out Hurricane Katrina on the trawler he built himself nearly 30 years earlier. Over the course of the storm, he helped rescue people from the parish and gave them food and shelter on his boat. Three years after Katrina, Robin's story is the basis of a new book, The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous, by Ken Wells.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with David Sarni, a retired NYPD detective and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about the hunt for the gunman who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks about parallels between President Trump and President Nixon's use of government agencies to go after perceived enemies.

More than a month after Hurricane Helene devastated mountain communities across Western North Carolina, the VA is still sending out teams to check on isolated veterans and bring them supplies.

President Trump is trying to reverse the Clinton era rule that puts 59 million acres of National Forest lands off limits to timber harvest and other development. America's timber industry may not see the boom many conservatives expect.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hired over 12,000 officers and reduced training time to aid with deportation efforts. Steve Inskeep speaks with a homeland security expert about that training.

Voters in D.C. are heading to the polls Tuesday for a pivotal mayoral primary. The winner will be favored in November and will have to navigate President Trump's focus on the city's affairs.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bill McGee, Senior Fellow for Aviation and Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project, about how the Iran war is impacting the airline industry.