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Over the past 25 years, U.S. adult literacy rates have not improved. Learning how to read, one adult learner says, is like "opening up a Christmas present every day."

Some colleges are extending scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. They see benefits to diversity — and their own bottom lines — in having rural students on their campuses.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kerri Miller, the host of MPR News at Minnesota Public Media; Charlie Sykes, host of the Daily Standard podcast; and Liz Ruskin, a reporter with Alaska Public Media.

This week's Tales from the Trail is the second of a two-parter on one of the most interesting politicians I have covered over the years – Sen. Bob Dole,...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Deb Copaken, contributing writer for The Atlantic; Paul Butler, Georgetown University Law professor; and Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, founder of the anti-abortion group New Wave Feminists.

The July call is at the center of a controversy over whether Trump pressured another country to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The White House has released a memo of the conversation.

In TRIALS, photographer Andrés Mario de Varona collaborated with Marcia Reifman, a survivor of stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma, to create images that acknowledge the self as a living memorial.

A Columbia University professor says spiritual beliefs can decrease our rates of anxiety and depression. I needed to understand how she came to these conclusions.

Saint Levant has sold out U.S. and European venues with his album 'Deira,' an ode to his heritage and the Gaza hotel his father built that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike.

On Wild Card this week, Kate Bowler opens up about how she wants to waste her time, her feelings about God and how she talks about death with her child.