Search results for

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced an initiative allocating millions of dollars toward fighting homelessness. The Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission, comments on the plan.

Late night comedy has been dominated by white men, but is that changing? NPR's Michel Martin asks with Yael Kohen, author of We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy, and NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.

The guitarist offers commentary on each song from her new album, which you can hear in its entirety.

NPR first visited Schnell Drive in St. Bernard Parish 10 years ago to speak with the Bordelon family as they rebuilt their home after Katrina's destruction. Unlike many, they're still there today.

There's overmedicating and self-medicating, but some vets are "de-medicating." Prescribed multiple drugs to deal with PTSD and pain, they've stopped taking them — without authorization.

Quarantines have been imposed on the sick and contagious for thousands of years. We look at the use — and abuse — of this strategy to stop the spread of disease.

In newspapers, magazines and novels, the "female husband" was a person of great interest.

David Greene talks with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice, who is in Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress and the White House to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Ilyasah Shabazz has written a young adult novel based on her father's troubled teenage years, before he became a civil rights activist.

Native American writer David Treuer bases the World War II camp for German prisoners on a real-life one that existed near the village of Bena, Minn., on the Leech Lake Reservation where he grew up.