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NPR revisits the Borscht Belt, a place where Jewish families from New York escaped for the summer at a time when they weren't welcomed elsewhere.

In Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price, author Jonathan Cohn looks at case studies of patients struggling with the U.S. health-care system to explain why a profit-based model means some people don't get the care they need. Cohn, a senior editor at The New Republic, advocates a government-regulated single-payer system.

Writer Stewart O'Nan has nearly 20 books to his credit, but his name isn't too well known beyond a community of loyal readers. Book critic Maureen Corrigan O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster may change all that.

In Paducah, Ky., AQS QuiltWeek is back after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Tens of thousands of people are flocking there and couldn't be happier to celebrate this often overlooked artform.

Chile has started vaccinating kids age 6 to 11 against COVID, one of the few nations in the world to immunize kids under 12. A handful of other countries are also giving shots to younger kids.

Reporters have been looking at federal agencies and employees impacted by DOGE cuts from food inspectors to nuclear scientists to firefighters, and the broader effects of the restructuring efforts.

In its Sunday report, the Florida Department of Health reported seven people died due to a primary diagnosis of COVID-19. There were 5,520 new cases, with a positivity rate of 7.65%.

Here's the lowdown from allergy doctors on how to get relief, from which medicines to use — and how to best use them — to tips for keeping pollen out of your home.

Fancy gadgets such as the iPod and BlackBerry mobile phone are doing more than just keeping people plugged in to the latest technology. They're also seen as tools that could change history. Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, The Power of Organizing Without Organization, describes the phenomenon.

Nunez's 2018 novel won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. Originally broadcast in 2019.

South Beach is just as tantalizing today as it was in the days of Miami Vice. Mix one part Art Deco, one part Cubanita culture, one part surreal fantasy and you've got a book — or three.

Your 401(k) might not be the secure retirement plan you think it is. Economist Teresa Ghilarducci examines pension plans and offers advice on retirement security. Ghilarducci's new book is When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them.

During his heyday in the early 1970s, shock-rock icon Alice Cooper dressed like a ghoul with a gaunt face and mascara-streaked eyes. His hits included "I'm Eighteen," "School's Out" and "Welcome to My Nightmare." In a memoir — Alice Cooper: Golf Monster, he recounts how he used his obsession with golf to overcome his addiction to alcohol.

He made the pop charts over and over again during the 1970s and early '80s with his love ballads like Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, I Write the Songs and Copacabana (At the Copa). Before becoming a singer, he was Bette Midler's accompanist and arranger. He has a new CD Barry Manilow: 2 Nights Live and a DVD Ultimate Manilow (Rebroadcast from March 21, 2002).

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer would like a few tips from Beethoven, like knowing how he struggled with turning rewrites and sketches into masterworks.

From the advent of AI actress Tilly Norwood to major music labels making deals with AI companies, 2025 has been a watershed year for AI and culture.

Fears of an all-out war on the Israel-Lebanon border are growing. The two sides have been trading fire since the conflict in Gaza started nine months ago.

Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them.

A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.

Groups that connect elders and teens — both in real life and online — have a new sense of urgency in the loneliness epidemic.

The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with potentially worrisome consequences.

What does a trove of Jeffery Epstein's emails reveal about how he operated? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown, who's followed the Epstein case for years.

With Ted Lasso, Shrinking and a new HBO series, the producer explores aging, friendship and second chances through comedy.

Tucked into the woods of Pleasantville, N.Y., lies Usonia — a cooperative community created in part by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. One resident is 101 years old.

JD Vance pounced on a comment from Tim Walz to accuse him of “stolen valor." There’s a history of playing politics with military service – one that we’ve seen in past elections.