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The Federal Reserve meets regularly and sets a target interest rate to keep inflation low and jobs high. But what if an equation could do all the work — and even do a better job?

Over the past decade, states have slashed workers' compensation benefits, denying injured workers help when they need it most and shifting the costs of workplace accidents to taxpayers.

Gottlieb, who died June 14 at 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carré and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. We listen back to an interview with Gottlieb from just a few months ago.

In 2009, the singer-songwriter says she asked herself the question, "Who am I?" The answer led her to make plans to retire. Four years later, she's re-emerged with a new album called SongVersation, as well as a new sense of who she is as an artist.

Fernando Perez, the 26-year-old outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, has written an essay in the September issue of Poetry Magazine about the firm place poetry holds in his life. Perez says poetry and baseball occupy different realms of his life.

The world’s richest companies have built their fortunes on burning fossil fuels and polluting the climate with greenhouse gasses. But author Akshat Rathi that same drive for development and material wealth can be a force for good, according to some, he says, it might be our only hope.

The best player in hockey is having a record-breaking run in the postseason. Could a Stanley Cup be enough to make him a household name in the U.S.?

Writer David Foster Wallace's last work, The Pale King, will be published this month. The book, his editor says, attempts a challenge no novelist has taken on: to write about the boring parts of life.

Oil rich Norway is a world leader in electric vehicle use, thanks to government incentives.

Threats against Jews, Arabs and Muslims have risen since the Israel-Hamas war started. DOJ says it's protect those communities, but Arab and Muslim groups say their voices aren't being heard.

President Biden is trying to flip the script to blame Republicans for border issues. Will voters buy it?

The French capital has tried to improve accessibility for people with disabilities ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics. Challenges remain, however, particularly in the underground Metro system.

Statements from al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed detailing the inner workings of the terrorist group played a key role in the trial of convicted terror conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Madeleine Brand discusses those statements with Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

Neurologist Guy Leschziner, author of The Nocturnal Brain, says the brain can be in different sleep stages at once — which explains why people sometimes walk, eat and even have sex when sleeping.

With vaccine mandates in place all over the country, workers opposed to the shots are requesting religious exemptions, but federal law puts employers in a strong position when weighing the requests.

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the very first time.

Recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom were released earlier in 2023.

Tampa demonstrators blocked part of Dale Mabry Highway in support of Cubans who are protesting the island's poor economic conditions.

The Senate passed a measure early into the New Year, and now it's up to the house to vote on the deal, which will most likely happen by Wednesday. The measure cleared the Senate on an 89-8 vote, hours after V.P. Joe Biden and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sealed a deal.

The Windy City has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city. A study estimates that more than two-thirds of children there are exposed to lead in their home tap water.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater has pretty much cut sugar out of his diet (and lost about 100 pounds). But there is one important exception. In Poughkeepsie, N.Y., a local bakery serves the Italian dessert "sfogiatelle." How non-artificially sweet it is!

Three of the band's four original members have reunited for the new album The Great Escape Artist. Singer Perry Farrell says he doesn't spend much time thinking about the group's legacy.

As part of the Radio Expedition collaboration with National Geographic, NPR's Christopher Joyce travels to Asia to report on the damage done to tropical fish populations and the reefs they live on by divers filling the demand for exotic fish species.

Donald Trump is indicted on felony charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. How conservative media are covering the indictment. Fitch strips the U.S. of its Triple-A bond rating.

The megarocket that will take NASA's Artemis 1 mission to space is being moved to the launchpad. It's the first step in the Artemis program's goal to take humans back to the moon.