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Interview with poet Seamus Heaney on his translation of the poem Beowulf

Ronan Farrow’s explosive reporting on movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged ...

Only seven of the 235 House Democrats have not articulated support for the impeachment in...

For many college students, living costs may exceed the cost of tuition and fees, as affor...

The word “elite” has a negative connotation today, often unleashed as a polit...

The FBI reports that hate crime violence in the U.S. is at a 16-year high. The U.S. Commi...

Detroit is known for the rhythms of Motown and the hum of automobile manufacturing plants...

President Trump's nomination of federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 201...

Mexicans who come to the U.S. seeking employment often leave their loved ones and culture...

Adam Winkler, author of our October pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now R...

Sand mining accounts for 85 percent of all worldwide mineral extraction, a $70 billion in...

Sally Rooney, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now...

Like many college students, 19-year-old Jimmy Rodriguez has a lot on his plate. But unlik...

In Sicily and across Italy, towns are on the brink of extinction. Locals have been leavin...

Mushroom hunters have long fanned out across the forest floor seeking what can be lucrati...

For the year that began in October, President Trump has capped the number of refugees who...

Seven years since the financial crisis shook Greece, many young people lack opportunity o...

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the second time in three months in a bid t...

Family size has been shrinking in the industrialized world for decades, and in Italy, the...

Collectively, Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars of medical debt, and Congress is tr...

During his surprise Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan, President Trump announced he had re...

The exoneration of Ricky Kidd, a wrongly convicted man in Missouri who spent more than tw...

Millennials are increasingly reevaluating their relationship with alcohol. A movement kno...

Jeffrey Brown caught up with the National Book Award fiction finalist Laila Lalami at the...

Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Aw...

For months, American diplomats have been negotiating with Taliban leaders to end the war ...

The Ganga River, known as the Ganges under British rule, is one of the most revered water...

Amid growing unrest in Greece, the government there is temporarily halting construction o...

Five years into Europe's migration crisis, the conditions in the notorious Moria camp on ...

Journalist and historian Craig Fehrman has written a book called “Author in Chief: ...

A new, acclaimed novel takes a young child's meltdown and turns it into a surreal satire ...

Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for th...

"A Long Petal of the Sea," a new historical novel by renowned writer Isabel Allende, draw...

Rahm Emanuel has served as a top adviser to Presidents Clinton and Obama, a three-term co...

Across the country, election officials are scrambling to decide how to adjust to the coro...

Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world’s most renowned and beloved musicians, is trying to prov...

In the United Kingdom just days ago, the attitude toward the novel coronavirus pandemic w...

Until 2018, Florida was one of only a few states that banned felons from voting for life....

As Americans stay home to try to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, we wanted to...

President Trump recently announced strict new border controls, citing concerns over the c...

In a new book, NPR’s Steve Inskeep has chronicled the little-known story of how the...

The coronavirus pandemic is causing immense economic damage. The number of Americans fili...

Dani Shapiro talks about memoir about her reckoning with an ancestry test that revealed a...

As COVID-19 spreads across the country, there has been some debate over the need for gove...

In previous books like "The Devil in the White City" and "Isaac's Storm," bestselling aut...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spent the last few decades working to improve global ...

Half the population of India lives in areas where water resources are highly stressed. In...

Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book clu...

The work of women artists makes up only 3 to 5 percent of major museums' permanent collec...

What will the future look like? That’s the big question posed by a new exhibition a...