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As humans, forgetting isn't merely a bug, it's a design feature. Not every instance of forgetting is good but we should be grateful for some of the forgetting we take for granted, says Tania Lombrozo.

Music from Loreena McKennitt (Cedric Smith), Tommy Roberts, The Boxcar Lilies, Creole Stomp, Atwater & Donnelly, Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Joe Ely,…

A visibly tired Pope Francis spoke with reporters during a freewheeling press conference in the air. Topics included his impressions of the U.S., clergy sex abuse and women's role in the church.

This essay is apart of a yearlong project on grieving called "Learning to Live: What's Your Story?" We all believe many different things over the course…

This essay originally aired on October 15, 2015. I grew up in Mill Valley, California which is a funky town surrounded by beautiful redwood trees. Now, I…

Musicians Kristin Hersh and Vic Chesnutt were friends and tour buddies for years before his death from an overdose in 2009; Don't Suck is Hersh's haunting memoir of her lost friend and his pain.

Wolfe has just released the recording of Anthracite Fields, which won the 2015 Pulitzer for music. The piece is based on the knotty history of coal-mining families in her home state of Pennsylvania.

Lots of politicians, Democrat and Republican, want to cut the number of brackets in the name of simplification. Here's what's wrong with that argument.

Food writer Ruth Reichl has a new cookbook called My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. It describes how she found her voice after Conde Nast shut down the magazine where she was editor.

Joyce Mitchell, 51, provided tools such as hacksaws, drill bits and lighted eyeglasses to two convicted killers ahead of their June 6 prison break.