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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her novel "Happy Land." The book is inspired by the true story of a secret community of formerly enslaved people in the Appalachians.

The platform banned food advertising, yet many videos viewed by millions of kids continue to showcase candy, soda and packaged snacks, likely affecting kids' food preferences, researchers say.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Toni G. Atkins, the head of California's Senate, about how the state is positioning itself at the forefront of abortion rights.

Should doctors warn patients of a policy threat that may not come to pass? That's the question pending, as the Trump administration weighs whether to deny green cards to immigrants on Medicaid.

Thrasher magazine was founded 40 years ago in San Francisco to cover skateboarding. Over the next four decades, the black-and-white newsprint magazine grew into a full color cultural arbiter.

Journalist Lawrence Wright's new book, Going Clear, is a penetrating look at Scientology and its famous practitioners. The book centers on Crash and Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis, who famously left the church over its support for an anti-gay marriage initiative in California.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Kim Teehee, the Cherokee Nation's Delegate-Designee, about the Cherokee Nation's campaign to seat her in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Cities across the country are seeing the number of violent crimes drop. Yet, Americans feel less safe. We speak with three reporters on what's actually happening in their cities.

On her current tour, Madonna sings "Live to Tell" while hanging from a mirrored cross and wearing a crown of thorns. Prosecutors in Germany, where she performs this weekend, say the pose might break laws that prevent insulting religious beliefs. Donna Freitas, a professor of religion at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vt., wonders if she is the only Christian on the planet who admires Madonna's pose.

Felipa Deleon Mousseau and Monique "Muffie" Mousseau, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, talk about falling in love, and gay people not always being accepted.

Dr. Rita Charon is leading a novel approach to training medical students. In her narrative medicine class at Columbia University, she's helping doctors-in-training learn that writing about their patients -- and their reactions to their patients -- can help them navigate the difficult world of medicine. Listen to Margot Adler and the students' stories.

This week's Unsung Hero installment is a tale of warm human connection on an otherwise cold day.

While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Areas in Polk and Hernando counties are at a marginal risk of severe weather on Thursday.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa about the string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers in New Mexico. She was one of the targets.

Not motivated to get to the gym? NPR’s Michaeleen Doucleff explores how functional exercise, such as gardening or taking care of chickens, racks up steps and squats.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh about Iran's leadership and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's funeral.

The new documentary painstakingly recounts the deadly 1971 prison uprising. NPR's Michel Martin talks to co-directors Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry.

Doctors and hospitals in Texas have discontinued gender-affirming care for trans youth. The move has those who do this care worried about their patients.

The duo of a veteran producer and a former physics professor, the children's band was inspired to make its debut album by the nonsense songs sung in the members' own households.

As the first few Gen Z candidates navigate runs for Congress, questions remain over how coming of age during intense national political division will shape Gen Z candidates' approach to politics.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Jacob Weisberg about his new book, "Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era."

Instead of finding fame with the 13th Floor Elevators in the 1960s, Roky Erickson is mostly known as a cautionary tale: a man who took too many psychedelic drugs, then struggled with mental illness. Now he's back, with the indie-rock band Okkervil River in tow.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Uyghur-American author Gulchehra Hoja about her memoir of Uyghur exile, hope and survival. It's titled: A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs.

Bowles has three years remaining on his contract and is operating as if he’ll return for a fifth season. He will meet with the Glazer family on Wednesday for a typical end-of-season conversation.