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Poet, novelist, memoirist and queer icon Michelle Tea makes a rare misstep in How to Grow Up, an essay collection that reviewer Michael Schaub calls "a well-intentioned, exasperating mess of a book."

Commentator Marcelo Gleiser ponders this question: Would you be comfortable dying, knowing that another you, a copy, would still be alive?

A great mix of bluegrass, Celtic, old-time, singer-songwriters and more, with host Chas Brua.

Kenya's passenger vans have a reputation for getting into deadly crashes. A new campaign has cut the accident rate with a simple intervention: stickers that urge riders to speak up.

An Oregon company has developed a high-tech process for turning sewage into pure drinking water. Now it's asking the state for permission to give its recycled water to a group of home brewers.

It's notoriously hard to get people to quit smoking. Pregnant women in Scotland were more apt to stop if they got $600 in gift cards. But are those kinds of payments ethical?

The announcement of the new Ghostbusters cast went over like ... well, gangbusters.

Hezbollah took responsibility for the attack and Israel returned fire, in one of the most serious flare ups of a long-running confrontation.

George Packer, staff writer for The New Yorker, talks with us about his book, "The Unwinding: The Inner History of the New America." The New York Times…

NPR's David Folkenflik weighs in on Gov. Mike Pence's plan for a state-run taxpayer-funded news site called "Just IN."