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Michel Martin speaks with NPR's Andrea Hsu, economist Kathryn Anne Edwards and new stay-at-home mom Farida Mercedes about how the pandemic is disproportionately impacting women in the workforce.

In Columbus author Kerry Winfrey’s most recent rom com novel, Faking Christmas, a host of quirky sugar plums sweeten a zany tale of a workplace untruth run amok, family fun and a budding romance at Christmastime in central Ohio.

In 1957, three years after the Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional, Melba Pattillo Beals was one of nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

This year artists working within the orbit of the unstable category "roots music" got personal even as they explored complex cultural lineages and challenged the rules of established scenes and forms.

Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado was one of seven congressional Republicans to call for an independent investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with astronaut Peggy Whitson, who returned from a mission to the International Space Station this fall. Whitson has spent more time in space than any other American.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Wilmot Collins, a refugee from Liberia, who was just elected mayor of Helena, Mont., ousting the longtime incumbent.

President Trump has talked about a plan to arm more teachers as a way to prevent school shootings like the one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephanie Gates, a black teacher in Chicago, about why it's important to include race in the conversation around arming teachers.

A journalist who was interviewing patients about tests that supposedly required only a few drops of blood ran into trouble with representatives from Theranos, the company behind the technology.

She didn't know that sporting an insulin pump on her bikini at a beauty pageant would make her an Internet sensation. Sierra Sandison is trying to use that to help others with Type 1 diabetes.