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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with author Sigrid Nunez about how her own meditations on the pandemic inspired her latest novel: The Vulnerables.

The activist and attorney had long fought for progressive causes. After his ALS diagnosis in 2016, Barkan became a leading voice in the fight for health care reform — even as his health deteriorated.

Photographer Tania Barrientos shares the stories of midwives and leaders at Indigenous women's centers called CAMIs in Costa Chica de Guerrero, a coastal region in southwest México.

Philadelphia – city of brotherly love, birthplace of American democracy. And the only place in the world where presidential flags are made.

More Cubans have fled to live in the United States in 2022 and 2023 than the waves of migration in the '80s and '90s. Three couples' stories show the complex realities of the current exodus.

About 1,400 people were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and more than 240 people were kidnapped. In the four weeks since, almost 10,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza.

India's past and future clash in a New Delhi alley. Two blocks of tall apartments full of middle-class residents loom over a rat-infested slum filled with men, women and children who have migrated to the capital from the countryside in search of work.

Entrepreneurial young Japanese people are trying to reinvigorate Japan's most aged village — where more than two thirds of residents are over 65 — and keep it from vanishing from the map.

In Iraq, fighting breaks out between rival Shiite Muslim militiamen in two cities. The clashes involved gunmen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and members of the Badr Brigade, the paramilitary arm of the most powerful Shiite political party.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Sheila Johnson, the first Black female billionaire, about her account of surviving an emotionally abusive marriage. Johnson's new memoir is Walk Through Fire.