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Armistead Maupin's famous series Tales of the City winds down with one last story about Anna Madrigal, the transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin tells NPR the series originally grew out of his attempts to write a nonfiction piece about the heterosexual pickup scene at his local Safeway.

Picky eaters, Dubai chocolate and A.I.-powered food trends? Oh my! This week on The Zest Podcast, get a preview of the 4th International Flavor Summit in Orlando.

On Wild Card, famous guests answer the kinds of questions we often think about but don't talk about. Author John Green reflects on living with obsessive compulsive disorder.

Meaty riffs, disembodied screams and... Curtis Mayfield? Anaiah Lei carefully curates samples to acknowledge past freedom fighters and provide windows of hope.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with actress Mariska Hargitay about My Mom Jayne, her documentary about her mom, Jayne Mansfield, and how her understanding of her mom's life changed through making it.

With the 2023 Hurricane season underway, we discuss what causes storms to spin up in the Atlantic and lessons learned from Hurricane Ian.

Extreme temperatures boost wildfire danger, and the forecast for some Southwestern states include high winds. That means warnings are being issued for fires that could start and spread quickly.

In Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Republican legal challenges to the legitimacy of ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including U.S. military members, have hit setbacks.

Two new comedies debut on Fox on Tuesday night: Grandfathered and The Grinder, both of which feature TV pretty boys Jon Stamos and Rob Lowe amping up their images. NPR's TV critic, Eric Deggans, offers a review.

In her new book "Strive," tennis legend Venus Williams outlines some of the disciplines that helped her win multiple Grand Slam championships.

Adrianne Drazin was on a long overseas flight with her baby and two young children. After she exited the plane, she noticed a family nearby waiting for something.

Just four companies dominate the beef processing market. That means higher prices for consumers and lower prices for ranchers, who — with cattle feeders — are trying to build their own meat plants.

Just four companies dominate the beef processing market. That means higher prices for consumers and lower prices for ranchers. Now they and cattlefeeders are organizing to build their own meat plants

Around 70 percent of all American casualties in Iraq come from the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by insurgents. We take a closer look at this deadly problem.

The government shutdown is dragging on, with no serious negotiations between the parties. The House is not in session and most members are back home in their districts, hearing from constituents.

NPR's Ailsa Chang searches coastal California for wild bumblebees with conservation biologist Leif Richardson, one of the leaders of the California Bumble Bee Atlas.

Texas prison guards brutally beat an inmate in September, leaving him in a coma. Some inmates and former staff say there will be more use of force if an acute staffing shortage isn't fixed.

Memoir writers Azar Nafisi and Azadeh Moaveni chronicle life in pre- and post-revolution Iran — and offer a glimpse of a people struggling to find pockets of freedom within a repressive regime.

1VERSE is the first K-pop group in the world to feature North Korean defectors. The group is the latest in K-pop to market multiculturalism in a cutthroat industry.

NPR's A Martinez talks to retired Col. Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about a Pentagon report that thousands of U.S. weapons are missing in Ukraine.

This spring, MLB players can challenge ball and strike calls. The camera-based system is only an experiment for now — but it has the baseball world wondering where to draw the line with technology.

A father shares life lessons and dad jokes with his daughter

Liberal political blogger Aaron Brown talks with NPR's Noel King about Minnesota's 8th Congressional District and how the historically Democratic district could flip to Republican.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick about her comic, Bitch Planet, about a dystopian future where being "noncompliant" in almost any way can land women on a prison planet.

On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain: Megan Atherton and a friend were sitting in an auto shop. They didn't have enough money to fix her car and were far from home. Someone intervened.