NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson about what's happened this week in politics and looks at the week ahead.
Demographer Phillip Longman says that regional inequality divides America. He tells NPR's Scott Simon which cities are doing well, which ones are falling behind, and how the U.S. got to this point.
It's been one year since the city of Detroit exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. New development is erupting downtown, but the city is still walking a financial tightrope.
After a mass shooting, a 16-year-old survivor struggles to heal. A white woman grapples with her indebtedness. And sports writers think back to when they discovered the darkness in the beautiful game.
The rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric has left many Muslims in New Jersey frustrated and frightened — and prompted Muslim community leaders to explain their religion and reassert their loyalty to the U.S.