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The city of Akron will hold its primary election in May, for the first time in decades. Last November, Akron voters approved a move from a September...

This week in the Barbershop we take up Bill Cosby's guilty verdict, Kanye West's controversial tweets, and a newly drafted Buffalo Bills quarterback whose social media past has come back to haunt him.

Joe Biden has witnessed and at times influenced decades of social change. He is still on the stage to see the long-term results of his actions, and sometimes to receive the judgment of history.

Wildfires and floods threaten tens of millions of properties in the U.S. But most Americans get little or no information about climate risks when they move.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to three Democratic strategists about what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political action committee means for the party's future: Dru Ealons, Alexandra Rojas and Ian Russell.

The historian Marcia Chatelain's new book, Franchise, outlines a forgotten history of McDonald's as a site of social protest and a mechanism black entrepreneurs hoped might spur black liberation.

Many of America's communities are changing, and so is how voters think about what matters most to them and whom they want their leaders to be.

Ahead of the release of Perfume Genius' fifth studio album, two NPR Music writers discuss how Mike Hadreas' career has helped set a new standard for the exploration of movement and identity in rock.

Some health care workers say they're exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.

From a nationwide "red zone" to travel restrictions to school closures, governments around the globe are taking steps to try to slow the spread of the outbreak.