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One of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most important political advisors, Stanley Levison, has remained largely hidden from public view — ...

In an email to NPR, regarding Friday’s Morning Edition piece on the possible motives of the Giffords shooting in Arizona, author James Resto...

U.S. President Ronald Reagan In January 1989, U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued his “Farewell Address to the Nation” from the Oval O...

Half empty or half full? “Is the glass half empty or half full?” is a common expression, used rhetorically to indicate that a particul...

This week: advice for exercising while sick; Dartmouth research on end-of-life care; why self-diagnosis on the Internet is a bad idea; and a...

The story of Marie and Pierre Curie is one of love, scientific partnership and one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. Ar...

Lyndon B. Johnson,  South Vietnam, 1966 In December 2009, Michael Lindenberger wrote “Obama's Afghanistan decision evokes LBJ's 1...

The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage -- the bedrock of American home ownership -- is a weird loan. In an ordinary market, you'd have to pay ...

Welcome our new host! Shirin Sadeghi! This week: Haiti, one year later; Yves Point du Jour on what's happening now + Isabel Allende'...

In December 2010, an NPR Staff writer wrote, “How Hip0Hop Became a Cash Machine” for the show, All Things Considered. Thirty years ago, hip...