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British author Martin Jacques witnessed the decline of the British Empire over his lifetime. He predicts that Americans will have a similar experience as the power of the United States declines in the coming years, yielding to an ever more powerful China. He discusses his new book, When China Rules the World.

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 has been called one of the best live albums ever recorded. But it was shelved for more than 20 years by executives at Cooke's record label, who feared what the mainstream would make of his fiery performance.

The Public Utility Commission of Ohio voted Wednesday to pause four state investigations tied to the First Energy bribery scandal.

The two cases are the first in the country since 1999. The virus spread from neighboring Cameroon. When polio is on the move in Central Africa, the toll can be tragic.

Bell was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School. He championed the idea that racism was ordinary, not exceptional, in American life. He died Wednesday in New York of carcinoid cancer.

Journalist Stuart Maconie says Margaret Thatcher and her reforms inspired a wealth of music in the U.K. — the tone of which could be glowing or grim, depending on what part of the country the musicians were from.

Learn to love our low-voiced lady opera singers who get to play everything from royalty to rivals.

Wilhelm Taubert and Jacob Rosenhain were friends with Felix Mendelssohn. And like their better known contemporary, they were excellent pianists who wrote sparkling concertos to show off their own abilities. Hear excerpts from these forgotten works.

NPR's Scott Simon ponders a diminishing and vanishing election year tradition: candidate debates.

A documentary crew with the History Channel initially made the discovery during a dive looking for World War II-era wreckage.