American public schools face an existential enrollment crisis
NPR’s Juana Summers talks with ProPublica ’s Alec MacGillis about his recent reporting on how declining enrollment is a crisis for American public schools.
As more schools ban cell phones, this is how it’s working at one Colorado school
More schools across the country are starting to ban students' cell phones during classes. As one Colorado school tries it out, staff like it, but students not so much.
Mohawk people fight to save their ash trees — and with them, their tradition
The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive pest killing ash trees across North America. It’s also threatening the practice of basket-making for many Indigenous tribes who rely on the ash.
Both presidential candidates are calling for taxes on tips to be eliminated.
Both former President Trump and Vice President Harris have called for the elimination of taxes on tips. The idea is popular, but there are economic consequences.
Looking back at Kenosha four years after Jacob Blake's shooting
Four years after the police shooting of Jacob Blake put Kenosha, Wisconsin in the national spotlight over racial justice in policing, the Trump campaign is still courting voters there on the issue of law-and-order. The message is resonating with some voters but not others.
The story of how the 14th Amendment has remade America – and how America has remade the 14th.
The fourteenth amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and it's packed full of lofty phrases like due process, equal protection, and liberty. But what do those words really guarantee us?
Why the US isn't ready for the wars of the future, according to experts
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to General Mark Milley, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, about how technology is transforming warfare.
This No.11 ranked tennis player will be documenting the U.S. Open his own way
When No. 11-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas hits the tennis court tomorrow at the U.S. Open, he'll be taking his New York experience all in. Literally. Documenting everything through vlogging and photography.
Long overlooked, menstrual blood is a treasure trove for science
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks to Mother Jones’ Maddie Oatman about her recent reporting revealing how menstrual blood has long been an overlooked source of key medical information.
Fears are stoked in Australia as a super strain of bird flu continues to spread
Australia fears a more contagious and lethal type of bird flu could trigger a big crisis for the country's poultry industry
This Latino civil rights group is fighting back against a Texas voter fraud probe
A Latino civil rights group is asking for a federal investigation after a Texas state voter fraud probe targeted activists.