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Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Gordon Sondland, a Republican donor and former ambassador to the European Union during the Trump administration, about why he's again supporting the former president.

The electoral college, which has helped Republicans in recent elections, is also at the heart of debate over GOP state laws regarding vote counting.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with writer Barbara Bradley Hagerty about her piece in The Atlantic on the children who are psychopaths, new treatment strategies and the brain science driving it.

Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights and Louisiana faced a hot bench Wednesday in a case critical to abortion rights in the U.S. But the Chief Justice - a key vote - did not tip his hand.

A growing number of American mothers are staying home to raise their children, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. Listeners share their own stories about making that choice.

More than 100 people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have pleaded guilty. But others are promising to take their cases to trial, including some who have decided to represent themselves.

More than 6 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded. Not all of them are Ukrainian. Some citizens of African countries have found that the doors of Europe are much less open to them.

Three men behind the 9/11 attacks have agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. Liz Miller, whose father was killed on Sept. 11 when she was six, shares her view on the outcome.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Cecilia Rouse, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, about President Biden's Federal Reserve nomination and the economic challenges the country is facing.