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Although Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy has been long gone from the American political scene, best-selling author Larry Tye said he still makes his presence felt. “70 years later, there’s still an ‘ism’ named after him that gives us the shivers,” Tye said. That “ism” is “McCarthyism,” which has come to represent politicians who engage in demagoguery, mudslinging and making baseless charges against opponents.

At 92 years old, Bud Koscinski still loves to roam. Every morning, around 10 o’clock, he trims up his moustache, combs his white hair to the side, says goodbye to his wife Anna and starts up his car. Then he’s gone. Not far. Usually, just across the border of Newburgh Heights, the inner-ring suburb where he’s lived since the 1950s, and into the Cleveland neighborhood where he grew up, Slavic Village.

50 years ago, a bunch of teenaged comics fans got together to plan a convention, and what started with 300 people in a hotel basement became the pop culture juggernaut known as San Diego Comic Con.

Many public art projects are slated for this month’s 50th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire and the clean-water movement it spawned. But only one connects that 1969 environmental catastrophe and the current day one caused by our jeans and the dye that makes them blue. “Indigo is the color that we know because of our denim,” says Jessica Pinsky.

The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law July 26, 1990. In it, Congress wrote that “physical and mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully participate in all aspects of society,” and banned discrimination against anyone with a disability. This landmark piece of civil rights legislation transformed the lives of millions of people. But it took courage and action by the disability community across the nation and here locally to get to that point and the advocacy continues now.

The president's push to overturn the election is turning GOP voters against Republican state leaders in Georgia, just before close runoff elections that could have lasting national implications.

Updated: 12:03 p.m., Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 A decade ago, national publications stumbled over themselves to praise Cleveland for its cutting edge policies on urban farming.

When Ohio’s county elections boards wrapped up the unofficial vote tallies last Wednesday, Secretary of State Frank LaRose blasted out a news release celebrating the state’s record-breaking turnout. But the mood was more somber in Cleveland, where it’s likely that fewer people voted than in 2016, 2012, 2008 or 2004.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. James Porter, president of Deaconess Health System, about how states and hospitals are preparing for the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dave Isay, the creator of StoryCorps, about ways to connect with loved ones on Thanksgiving — a time when people are divided politically and separated physically.