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Jazz has evolved into a genre of music that incorporates many distinctive styles since it began on the streets of New Orleans a hundred years ago. Often,…

Lisa Brown made the remarks during a heated debate about a bill that puts new regulations on abortion providers.

A federal judge in New Orleans will accept materials through a deadline next week on whether Nalco, the maker of chemical dispersants used in the BP oil…

What do you get when you add Jay-Z's 'Problems' to Three Dog Night's 'Loneliest Number'? A bunch of pop culture math questions that weren't on your SAT. Puzzle guy Art Chung proves calculus is a lot less scary when it involves your favorite band.

Remember when a young Robert Jordan took a break from battle for a bean burrito in Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Taco Bell Tolls"? Jonathan Coulton demonstrates product placement at its best, or what we here at NPR call "underwriting."

To determine this week's grand prize winner, John Chaneski heads up this final game, in which contestants must decipher some everyday initials and acronyms. Does MYOB stand for "mind your own business," or is it "munch yesterday's ornate bologna"?

Remember the late piano master with a 1992 performance and conversation with host Marian McPartland.

In 1996, Wil Smith enrolled as a freshman at Bowdoin College. He was 27 and recently out of the Navy. So he set off for school with his one-year-old daughter, Olivia, in tow. Now that she's a teenager, Olivia sat down with her dad to look back on their "college days" together.

Amid a funding crunch, legal aid programs that help poor people with civil disputes — like evictions and child custody cases — are laying off workers or even closing their doors. At one Baltimore office, lawyers say the number of people needing help has gone through the roof in recent years.

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep is on a journey from Carthage to Cairo. Here are two reading lists that will make his adventure a literary one.