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President Biden's Earth Day summit with 40 global leaders is an attempt to reassert U.S. leadership on the world stage. The White House hopes bolder pledges to act can avoid the worst climate impacts.

Georgetown University economist Pietra Rivoli spent five years studying T-shirts and what they can teach us about the global economy, an effort culminating in the book The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy. In this excerpt, she discusses how Texas cotton growers have managed to maximize their profits:

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink had a six-decade career leading major orchestras across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. He was hailed as a musician's musician, prizing the art well above glamor.

The Senate is expected to vote on two opposing health care proposals today. And, the Trump administration says it has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in its latest move in the region.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with actor Diane Guerrero about immigration and the lasting effects of family separation, something she experienced when she was 14.

Kevin Carroll and Debi Waeber were high school sweethearts who became separated by the Vietnam War and an unplanned pregnancy. Decades later, neither had an inkling that their paths would cross again. Host Michel Martin speaks with them about their story, which is featured in this week's Washington Post Magazine.

Michel Martin went to Kansas City, Mo., this week to talk about food and health with organic farmer Linda Hezel, hybrid farmer Chris Boeckmann and Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst.

Rachel Martin talks to Isabelle Simon, whose son has been treated for opioid addiction. She plans on voting for candidates who support affordable health care and drug counseling, regardless of party.

A new type of drug-resistant staph infection is showing up primarily in gay and bisexual men. It is resistant to even more antibiotics than MRSA — the drug-resistant staph that has spread from coast to coast over the past seven years. Joe Neel, NPR's health editor, answers questions about the infection.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Christine Platt, author of The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living With Less, about how to declutter and why it's especially important for communities of color.

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Michele Roberts who is the first woman to head a major North American professional sports union — the National Basketball Players Association.

Can people on the FBI's terror watch list buy guns with impunity? And what's up with Donald Trump's first TV ad showing a border that's not what it…

The Nation doubled in circulation under Navasky's tenure. He went on to teach at Columbia University, and chaired the Columbia Journalism Review. He died Jan 23. Originally broadcast in 1982.

Florida is being forced to stagger payments to schools and health care providers because of limits with its 30-year old computer-based accounting system...

On Monday, former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham succeeds Keir Starmer as the United Kingdom's prime minister. Burnham's politics have been shaped by England's north-south class divide.

Sixteen U.S. figure skaters are competing in all four Olympic disciplines: men's, women's, pairs and ice dance. The team includes a mix of seasoned vets, world champions and rising stars.

The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with historian Julian Hayter, of the University of Richmond, about the push-back on using Critical Race Theory to teach American history.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has denied any wrongdoing, and his legal team is presumably already at work preparing a defense against the corruption charges. What might the legal strategy look like? Criminal defense lawyer Stanley Brand talks with Steve Inskeep about potential defense strategies in the case.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Washington Post's Lisa Bonos about Facebook's new dating app.

Alice Munro died in May at the age of 92. Her daughter Andrea Skinner wrote a Toronto Star op-ed revealing her stepfather abused her as a child for years.

Democrats in the state House of Representatives are employing a more aggressive strategy in fighting Republicans’ education priorities this year after...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Zlatina Kostova, a clinical psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, about the trauma children experience when living through war.

Rachel Martin talks to Peter Kirkham, a former detective police inspector with London's Metropolitan Police Service, about how a reduced British police force may negatively impact terror probes.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt.