Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.
Nearly 300 people packed The Medium in Springdale for the NWA Fat Fashion Show, a 2025-26 Creative Exchange Fund event celebrating fat bodies, community and liberation.
In honor of National Puppy Day, Lorie Comer of Northwest Arkansas shares how a single Facebook post in 2023 led her to foster more than 100 dogs through Best Friends Animal Society.