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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Joshua Yaffa about his new book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to NPR's Geoff Brumfiel and to Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about the proposal for a national contact tracing program.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Laurie Garduque of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, about efforts to reduce local jail populations.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Julia Ebell, former creative director of The Gibson cocktail bar in Washington, D.C., about which cocktail is best to bid farewell to 2020.

It's been more than two months since the Nigerian school girls were kidnapped, and they're still missing. Host Michel Martin learns more about what the government is doing to find them.

Army Maj. D.J. Skelton was grievously wounded in Iraq, yet managed to return to active duty and command a platoon in Afghanistan. He taught the Pentagon the continuing worth of wounded troops.

Donald Trump made gains with Latinos nationally in 2020. This year, voters in a competitive new Colorado congressional district are facing economic and pandemic concerns that could cost Democrats.

The massacre in Uvalde, Texas, was yet another grim reminder that in the U.S., children are more likely to die from gun violence than in any other wealthy nation. And it's getting worse.

Hip-hop culture, with its street rhythms and explicit lyrics, is more relevant in advancing civil rights today than the peaceful messages of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., author Todd Boyd says. In an interview with NPR's Scott Simon, Boyd says hip hop artists use language as a political weapon that provokes and "makes people think." (Note: Contains language that some may consider offensive.)

Radio producer Sasha Aslanian, herself a "divorced kid," spent five years documenting the lives of children whose parents are divorced. She discovered that while the courts and state governments are working to put kids first, divorce will always change their lives.