Read why CeaseFire, the organization featured in the 2011 documentary The Interrupters, has stopped receiving funding from the Illinois legislature and about the effects that has had.
In a follow-up to his 2012 speech at Princeton University’s graduation ceremony, author Michael Lewis discusses success and luck with NewsHour journalist Jeffrey Brown in this video.
In this radio piece, Morning Edition’s Deborah Amos profiles a start-up online advertising agency in Saudi Arabia with an all-female staff.
Journalist Molly Flatt argues that there are positive relationships between nature and technology and that people can use technology to connect to nature.
Democracy may be the goal of a freedom movement or revolution, but once it’s established, people sometimes experience “dictator envy”—the wish to avoid the messiness and indecisiveness of a government by, for, and of the people.
Every four years (with an exception at the turn of most centuries), a quirk of the calendar gives us an extra day. Learn why 2016 is one of those years.
Rising from poverty in St. Louis to become an entertainment superstar in her adopted home of Paris, Josephine Baker could easily have enjoyed a life of leisurely wealth. Instead, she aided the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of World War II and later spoke out for American civil rights.
Fast-growing kudzu vines enveloping manmade structures may be a stereotype of the American South, but the truth is more complex.
Despite the hue and cry that technology isolates people, social sciences author Howard Rheingold argues that it in fact enhances our capacity to interact with each other and together build a better world.
Read about some interesting theories related to fashion for men and women. Did nobility dictate the differences in fashion?
