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Moby-Dick is a difficult book to read. But the author of a new book about the Melville classic says it's worth it to make the effort.

Awards season has offered NPR's Scott Simon the opportunity to reflect on the number of British actors playing Americans in films and television shows, and wonder where the American actors are.

The well-staged London Olympics have drawn to a close and on Monday, thousands of fans made their way to airports for the flight home.

The pandemic has left many Americans craving safe social interaction. For one group of New Yorkers, outdoor Zumba classes bring a little joy.

"I'm sorry that I hurt people," the comic said, referring to anti-gay tweets he had posted years earlier. He had initially refused to apologize, only to announce hours later that he was stepping down.

With much of the U.S. facing extreme weather, NASA chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin talks to NPR's A Martinez about what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise.

When Monica and Scott Fink got married, he was a phone company employee who spent one weekend a month in the National Guard. And then he was sent to Iraq. Scott Fink returned home this week, and Debbie Elliott has the first of a series following the Finks as they get used to life on the home front.

In addition to hits already in theaters like Wicked: For Good, this holiday week brings sequels for Zootopia and Knives Out.

The Senate failed to start debate on a border bill. How might Republican congressional leaders try to salvage a chaotic week? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Republican strategist Brendan Buck.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that at the heart of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians is insistence on ruling the tiny, one-mile-square old city of Jerusalem, a site sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Since its conquest of the city in the 1967 war, Israel has ruled the old city insisting that it must remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel. Palestinians are demanding sovereignty over, at least, the areas of old Jerusalem where Arabs are a majority.

In Michigan, election administrators are preparing for the possibility of new poll workers who believe President Trump's lies about a stolen election.

A year ago, she packed what she could, helped her mother, who's in a wheelchair, into the car and drove all night to find a haven. In the U.S. to accept an award, she talks about her country's crisis.

Children who need growth hormone to achieve their full stature are having trouble getting the medicine. A shortage has stretched months longer than expected and could last the rest of the year.

"Authenticity" is a loaded term when it comes to racial identity. But author and regular News & Notes commentator Joseph C. Phillips isn't afraid to tackle the topic head-on. He talks with Ed Gordon about his new book, He Talk Like a White Boy: Reflections on Faith, Family, Politics and Authenticity.

Inside Crystal Hopkins' Tampa home, she gestures to the large, white curio cabinet that dominates her family's dining room. She pulls open the double...

In 1998, Ben Lecomte swam across the Atlantic Ocean. The 47-year-old athlete is planning another historic plunge — this time swimming across the ocean on the other side of the country.

Allegations that some members of Pakistan's national cricket team have been accepting bribes from bookmakers have shaken the world of international cricket. The three players all deny the allegations, but are being forced to sit out the rest of Pakistan's current tour of England while the matter is investigated.

A much-hyped double album finds the two reveling in a mutual influence that has bloomed for a decade, shaping a scene in the process.

In 1938, Glenn Kurtz's grandfather went on vacation and filmed a few minutes of footage of his Polish hometown. Seventy years later, his grandson set out to find the people who appeared in that film.

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.

Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it's not just big tech aligning the two parties.

Author Aja Raden says jewelry is the perfect lens through which to view human history. In Stoned, she tells the story of the glass beads used to purchase Manhattan and the rise of the wristwatch.

The economist, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, tells NPR's Scott Simon about the problems that he sees in the Biden administration's COVID-19 relief bill.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu about her father, Moon Landrieu, who served as mayor of New Orleans in the 1970s and died on Monday at 92.