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This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam explores how unconscious ideas about the family shape the way we think about politics.

For 10 years, journalist Yang Jinsheng secretly collected official evidence about the terrible famine in China a half-century ago. In his chilling book Tombstone — which is banned in his homeland — Yang estimates that 36 million people died of starvation and other causes during the famine, even as grain exports continued.

In an interview with NPR, the blockbuster director said the studio's decision to stream movies on HBO Max on the day of their release will hurt the people who work in the movie industry.

Twitter, as we've seen in the protests in Iran, is becoming something of a force for democracy. It's proving useful not only for organizing street demonstrations but also for bringing down the walls around that most rarefied of communities: the world of music reviews.

Motorola engineer Martin Cooper made the first cellphone call 50 years ago this week. Who did he call? His competitor at Bell Laboratories to gloat.

Saima Wahab left Afghanistan for the United States as a young girl, but she returned to her home country as a Pashto translator for the U.S. military. In her memoir In My Father's Country, Wahab describes the difficulty of straddling two nations at war.

Belfast boiled over in a second night of sectarian violence, with youth hurling bricks, bottles and gasoline bombs. The unrest centered in Short Strand, a small Catholic community in a predominantly Protestant area of east Belfast. Police said about 400 people were involved. Violence tends to flare up before July 12, a divisive sectarian holiday.

A bipartisan proposal to calm churning health insurance markets gained momentum Thursday when enough lawmakers rallied behind it to give it potentially...

A major proposal slashing rules on everything from how teachers are certified, hired and paid, to rolling back some of the state’s standardized testing system, has cleared a major hurdle, but the House and Senate differ on how far they should go.

Voters and a supporting legal group are seeking to knock the controversial Republican off the ballot for her role prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

President Biden is about to get the chance to wield a tool of the office for the first time — the veto pen — over a measure that was passed to roll back a Biden administration financial regulation.

Almost 13 years after its finale, HBO's Deadwood is back as a TV movie. Created by David Milch, the foul-mouthed characters inhabit an illegal mining camp in the Dakotas where their dramas unfold.

The photographer, a photojournalism student at Syracuse University, documents her enforced quarantine after abruptly returning from her study abroad.

Batiste is one of several real-life musicians who consulted on the new Pixar film, about a middle-school band teacher who ends up in a fantastical realm called The Great Before.

Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren talks about your credit rating — how it's compiled, and how it may be used against you. Warren also discusses the errors that may lower your score and how to fix them.

In Missouri, plans to pare 90,000 people from the Medicaid rolls in 2005 have sparked a fierce debate over the morality of the move. Frank Morris of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.

The faculty at the University of Central Florida are not getting raises this year.

Florida's school districts consider whether to require masks. The latest data on a recovering job market is released Friday. A sprinter from Belarus, who fled the Olympics, is now in Poland.

A new report in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases says evidence that the flu shot offers protection in adults aged 65 years or older is lacking. Host John Dankosky and guests discuss the report, the upcoming flu season, and whether seniors should get the flu vaccine.

The cause of the Atlanta rapper's death has yet to be released. His brother, Lil Gotit, posted about Lil Keed's death over Instagram early Saturday .

European markets opened lower and today and world leaders across Europe and Asia reacted following the news that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus.

For centuries, people have turned to jesters for relief from the miseries of life. As it turns out, some stand-up performers turn pain and rage into their own coping and catharsis.

The House voted Friday on the financial rescue plan that the Senate passed Wednesday. The new version includes billions of dollars in tax breaks and credits. Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at Taxpayers for Common Sense, says lawmakers in the Senate piled on as much baggage onto what they saw as the last legislative train leaving the station.

The White House has said it is ready to step in to a prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler. But such a last-minute rescue is no more than a reprieve and questions about a more extensive bailout will be waiting for president-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress.

Lending money to energy companies can be pretty profitable, but if oil prices drop enough, the threat of bank defaults becomes real, Portales Partners analyst Charles Peabody tells NPR's Scott Simon.