Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof talks about how he escaped Iran on foot after making his new political thriller, The ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, who directs the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, about where the administration is going on the economic policy front.

Protesters surged into the capital Islamabad -- amid gunfire and teargas -- as they demanded the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Demers was diagnosed with hearing loss when he was 4 years old. As a kid, he saw nothing funny about it — but then he learned ...

During her years as a military linguist, Bailey Williams pushed her body to extremes. Her new book is Hollow: A Memoir of My ...

Protesters surged into the capital Islamabad -- amid gunfire and teargas -- as they demanded the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

NPR's A Martínez asks National Geographic writer Maddie Stone about some of the real science behind the fictional world of "Dune." ...

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Joan Casey, who co-wrote a new study that links exposure to wildfire smoke to an increased risk of dementia.

President-elect Trump wants to roll back spending that Congress has already approved. But a 1974 law may stand in his way.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel about her new memoir "Freedom." ...

Songs That Move You. This week, we hear about losing a love but gaining a culture.

In Trump's first term, his administration proposed major funding cuts to housing, food and other public benefits. Congress did not pass them, but advocates worry this time could be different.