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In a public park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a handful of psychotherapists are open for business. This is literally a public service — they've set up shop on folding beach chairs in a busy city park.

Historian Mary Ziegler talks about the legal battles shaping reproductive rights across the U.S. — including the scope of abortion access and the fate of invitro-fertilization.

An entire industry wouldn't exist without him, yet few know his name. In his songs, Knott challenged the faithful to examine their faults and hypocrisies.

When she finished high school, Radhika Dang wanted to go to the University of South Florida, but got turned down from the Tampa campus.The American-born…

In Louisiana, some people like to fish by sticking their arm into murky water, feeling around for a catfish, and grabbing them by the mouth. A new law legalizing it goes into effect Aug. 1.

Author Ethan Canin says two odd talents contributed to his main character becoming a mathematician: He can always tell where he is on Earth and he can draw things perfectly.

Fort Wayne, Ind., is home to one of the largest Burmese refugee populations in the U.S. One public high school there is helping them meet high expectations.

Las Vegas has been invaded by grasshoppers due to unusually wet weather earlier this year. They have shown up in radar footage from the National Weather Service.

A new public health campaign says controlling high blood pressure is among the best ways to keep your brain sharp. The neurologist in charge aims to lead by example.

In an interview with NPR's Here & Now, the darling of the left again denies any interest herself. But her politics — and followers — will have an influence.

The Biden administration wants hospitals to do more to make their prices understandable, so that consumers know in advance what a health care service will cost them.

Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit.Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes…

Farai Chideya talks with Kimberly Seals-Allers, author of The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy, which offers practical information to help black women navigate through their pregnancy, and with Dr. Andrea Price-Rutty, who wrote the foreward to the book.

For nine years, I lived in a giant apartment complex called the Summit with hundreds of other people in the city of Shanghai. Now my old neighbors are entering week six stuck inside.

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have recently been revived in the podcast, "Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Adventure." We mark the occasion by listening to our 1989 interview with Jones, who died in 2022.

The crossover hits stacking Grammy nods this year have little in common with the culture that birthed them — but they're winning the chart game.

Help is still available for homeowners struggling to fix-up property damaged by Hurricane Irma last year, through the Rebuild Florida program.

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Joe McComb, mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, about Hurricane Hanna that made landfall Saturday. Flooding is a worry amid a spike in COVID-19 infections.

Two musical worlds collide as jazz pianist Dan Tepfer finds inspiration, and room for improvisation, in J.S. Bach's Two-Part Inventions.

Ten months after losing the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton is out with her memoir, What Happened. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Clinton about the outcome and how she's carried on.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett about her latest collection of essays, These Precious Days, and how she ended up quarantining with Tom Hanks' personal assistant.

Just shy of 25, Swift's been in the music industry nearly half her life. In an extended interview with NPR's Melissa Block, she addresses what's changed in music, media, feminism and her own career.

The Cuban trumpeter first met Dizzy Gillespie in 1977, when the American jazzman came to Havana to play a concert. It was the start of a friendship that would last until Gillespie's death in 1993.

When she was starring in Funny Girl on Broadway, Streisand says she'd alter the music slightly each night. Her new memoir is My Name is Barbra. Originally broadcast Nov. 8, 2023.