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The Taliban has ordered all beauty shops in Kabul to close by the end of July. These businesses are one of the last places where women can work and congregate as restrictions on women are mounting..

As the country faces slowing economic growth and a trade war with the U.S., China has taken pains to reassure entrepreneurs by telling them they can start businesses, create jobs and benefit society.

Journalist and 2017 MacArthur "genius" grant award-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones says that when it comes to school segregation, separate is never truly equal.Originally broadcast Jan. 16, 2017.

This month's playlist includes 10 songs by Slingshot artists: public radio's favorite new musicians of 2018.

As polls across the country close, a look at some early results and a look ahead to the big races yet to be decided.

Agnes Igoye has a lot of gripes about the way women are treated in Uganda. But she has great hope that women will thrive — and that men will get with the program.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Benjamin Chavis Jr., one of the organizers of the Million Man March in 1995, and a consultant for the anniversary march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

I was only 22 years old in January of 1975, a reporter for The Post, the student newspaper at Ohio University in Athens.

NPR's Rachel Martin reconnects with a couple of young Afghans that she first met nearly two decades ago when they were children hosting a youth radio program in Kabul called Good Morning Afghanistan.

Minimum wages are on their way to $15 an hour in New York and California. Workers look forward to the bump. But some small businesses are bracing for a hit to their bottom line.