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Megan Mayhew Bergman's stories about historical women are littered with bad-girl paraphernalia, like smashed-up motorcycles and morphine needles. In this collection, their lives are richly imagined.

Many students have spent their summers on edge, as delays and glitches in this year’s FAFSA form have run up against the start of the fall semester.

Bird notes that WNBA players represent society's most marginalized groups. "We're Black, we're women, we're gay," she says. "And those are the groups that are held back in our society."

Alynda Segarra examines our frailty and resilience with an unsparing, yet tender cadence. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich looks at lyrics that stand on their own as poetry.

In the decades since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, many Americans have tried to use the model of protest to achieve their political goals. But do protests work?

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo about assuming her new role as editor-in-chief at JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with John Walker who wrote a Kotaku post about 'price tourism.' It allows gamers to buy video games at lower prices from countries with weaker economies.

Twenty years ago, America was introduced to Beverly Hills celebutantes Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie through their reality TV show, The Simple Life.

Three reporters from the Baltimore Banner - a relatively new publication -- won a Pulitzer for their reporting on the overdose crisis in Baltimore done in conjunction with the New York Times.

The heat in the U.S. this summer has broken records, and this kind of summer might be the new normal. So what can the government do to help support those who can't afford to cool their homes?