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NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with high school seniors from around the country who have spent nearly their entire high school career during the pandemic.

Born out of necessity during segregation, Seafarers Yacht Club is one of the country's oldest black boating clubs. Over 70 years after its founding, the club's members must decide how to move forward.

After deadly 2009 wildfires, authorities offered to buy property to encourage people to move. Few accepted. The questions raised by Australia's experience are freshly urgent after its latest fires.

It's time for Connor's wedding. It's time for Roman to choose between Gerri and his father. Unfortunately, Logan won't make it to the celebration.

Though Biden won the 2020 election, it did not prove to be the blue wave many in his party had hoped would materialize. Key Democratic organizers and strategists discuss.

Santigold's debut album captures the New York dream of being a singular sensation above the masses. It inspired writer Dawnie Walton when she first moved there — and again when she needed a new start.

Florida’s estuaries once teemed with clams, oysters and other bivalves that helped keep waters clean and seagrasses healthy. By the mid-20th century, only a fraction of the state’s vast shellfish beds and reefs remained. Can a small clam make a big difference in serious water pollution hotspots like the Indian River Lagoon?

A decade after a landmark report on Americans' shorter lives, the problem has only gotten worse. Unlike other wealthy nations, U.S. life expectancy has not bounced back from the pandemic.

Melle Mel was the rapper on the 1982 hit "The Message." He spoke to Fresh Air in 1998 about the early days of rap, music with a social message and how the genre and his life had changed.

In the general's upcoming leadership book, Call Sign Chaos, the Obama administration catches the most flak. Mattis barely mentions President Trump but implies criticism of the sitting president.

Internet search giant Google unveiled Chrome, a new piece of Web browser software on Tuesday. Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand.com, explains what Google's open-source browser can do, and why a search engine leader wants to get into the Web software market.

In communications newly revealed, TikTok executives discuss being aware of the harms caused by their app. TikTok officials were warned of the app’s dangers to minors.

The auto industry is embracing Tesla's charging technology in order to share its vast Supercharger network. This is going to be a slow transition — expect to see a lot of adapters.

We asked NPR photographers to share their favorite pictures and their thoughts about photographing Tiny Desk concerts in 2024.

In 2025, fandom is complicated. Music is at nearly everyone's fingertips. Concert ticket prices are through the roof. Some fans take devotion to new extremes. What do we owe to the artists we love?

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground.

The stadium-filling singer-songwriter's fourth album is full of finely detailed songs that expand his sound without sacrificing subtlety.

With about 50 days to go before the elections, the battle for Senate control is still too close to call. To get a majority, Republicans need a net gain of 4 seats — 3 if the GOP wins the White House.

Congress told the Transportation Security Administration and airlines in 2018 to improve air travel for people with disabilities. But TSA data and stories from flyers suggest little has improved.

Americans love their gas stoves, but they pollute homes and are connected to a supply system that leaks methane. That's part of a battle as more people face a decision about switching to electric.

Omicron is still spreading and it's crazy contagious. Experts share seven steps to deal with an infection, protect your household from getting sick and stay sane in the process.

Plastic is everywhere, but we ditched it for a week. Here are some tips from our experiment that you can use to cut back your own plastic use.

World Cup tickets are expensive, and buying them has been frustrating and confusing. But this is what economics is for: figuring out the best ways to allocate scarce resources. FIFA, steal these ideas.

In the middle of the school year, Hayden Dallip was at home in Miami Gardens when he got a call from his seventh-grade daughter. “She was crying—she...

As a new year begins, we look back at some of our favorite interviews of 2021.