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Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel acquired some 5,000 impressionist works long before others were buying them. Claude Monet said he and his artist friends "would have died of hunger" without him.

David Greene talks to Emily Rauhala, the Beijing correspondent for The Washington Post, for the latest on the Tianjin blast, and the government's promises "not to cover anything up."

Glen Weldon and Katie Presley discuss the new film, which is based on a series of interviews between David Lipsky and the late writer David Foster Wallace.

With the last of summer on our minds, it may be hard to get pumped up to think about deep issues like the politics of consumption on a finite planet, says Adam Frank. But what about thermodynamics?

A new study finds that one in four of the sex workers in Tijuana and Juarez started as minors. A safe house is helping some of them find a new life.

There are so many ways to watch TV now that people often feel liberated from old models. But even under some of the new systems for television, as at your better casinos, the house always wins.

Cost increases for both old and new diabetes drugs are forcing many patients to scramble to pay for them.

A report by the nonprofit Police Foundation examining the incident in Stockton, Calif., says the number of shots fired was "unnecessary." It also found that some officers "inexplicably opened fire."

Public radio journalists are part of proposed panels on podcasting, diversity, newsroom metrics, women in tech and more. Cast your vote by Sept. 4.

The pangolin, a shy, scaly animal resembling an anteater, is being hunted into extinction, conservationists say. New efforts are underway to protect this exotic creature.