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The IMF finds companies are getting increasingly powerful. Here's why that's bad for consumers and for the whole economy.

This week, the British parliament once again rejected a plan by Prime Minister Theresa May's to leave the European Union. NPR's Korva Coleman speaks with Hannah Peaker, a leader of the Women's Equality party, about May's leadership and her critics.

Authorities in Massachusetts want to cut the recidivism rate for men ages 18 to 24. They're trying a new program based on a German model that teaches responsibility as a means to greater freedoms.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to traveling nurse Juan Ramirez, who worked in Texas and Arizona during the pandemic and is now an ICU nurse in California at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding.

Rosella Liscum died at age 101 last week after contracting COVID-19. At StoryCorps in 2012, she told her daughter, "Just do what's in your heart. Do what's right and have fun."

There are a lot of contrasts between Joe Biden's impending pick and past elections when women were vice presidential candidates. One that's easy to overlook: Biden is ahead in the polls.

Netflix's Floor Is Lava is an obstacle-course competition show premised on a children's game. It's like American Ninja Warrior meets Honey, I Shrunk The Kids — but with pits of "lava" to avoid.

Jeff Muhlstock from New Jersey has contracted the coronavirus and spent nearly two weeks in the hospital. He filmed his routine, offering a rare glimpse into the inside of a COVID-19 isolation unit.

Pearl Thusi stars as a spy with a complicated past in the new crime drama. It's Netflix's first commissioned series fully produced in Africa.

For his latest novel, Kevin Kwan decided to update one of his own favorite books, A Room With a View. The result is Sexand Vanity, a fun, decadent whirl that manages to take on some serious subjects.