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In One Hot Summer, historian Rosemary Ashton follows Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli through an unpleasant couple of months — as the River Thames flowed with hot, smelly sewage.

The Trump administration is considering new travel restrictions as its controversial travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries expires.

Central Idaho hopes to land on a very short list of the best places on Earth to see the Milky Way at night.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Grinnell College President Raynard Kington about the proposed excise tax on endowment income. The small Iowa school has a very large endowment.

The show features some technology and advances that aren't necessarily sexy but are changing the way we move around. They range from luxury car subscriptions to personal electric vehicles.

General Electric has had a steep fall from grace this year. Its stock has dropped and it's halving its dividend. Now GE watchers are wondering if the new CEO can pull off a dramatic turnaround.

In 1997, someonespeared a pumpkin on the top of a 173-foot tower. It stuck around for months, an object of fascination and speculation. And no one knows who did it ... unless youknow. Wait, do you?

Gordon S. Wood's engaging new dual biography of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams aims to discover why Jefferson is so much more well-loved than his lifelong (though sometimes estranged) friend.

The rock band Relaxer may not be a household-name in Akron, but its members are. Founder Jamie Stillman has been playing in bands for decades, and owns...

This week's terror attack in Manhattan prompts a question: Can a city do anything to stop a truck attack? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with architect Thomas Vonier about how we can better design big cities to make it harder for terrorists to harm people.