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Every January, when I take down the holiday decorations that adorn my apartment walls, I’m always struck by how abruptly empty my home feels in…

The former first lady, who died Tuesday, told Terry Gross in 1994 that she grew up thinking she'd be a nurse. "But then I met that marvelous George [H.W.] Bush and the nursing went out the window."

Since 1960, citizens in a tiny New Hampshire hamlet have gathered at midnight to cast the first official ballots in the presidential race under the gaze of TV cameras.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with H. Jon Benjamin about his new book, Failure Is An Option. The memoir urges us to let go of the constant grind towards success.

It's the first time the WHO has called an outbreak a pandemic since the H1N1 "swine flu" in 2009.

Steve Inskeep talks to former Ambassador Chase Untermeyer, a longtime aide to President George H.W. Bush, who died Friday at the age of 94, about what drove Bush to the top.

Geoff Dyer's entertainingly cranky new book chronicles the two weeks he spent as a writer-in-residence aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, amid the buzzing activity of an aircraft carrier on the job.

Rachel Martin explores some character traits that push voters away from the two most unpopular candidates in modern history. For Clinton, it's the way she seems to protect her privacy at all costs.

Balance can be difficult to find even in the best times, but it's always worth pursuing. Music by Fanny Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Monteverdi, and more.

The national crisis created by the pandemic should have been a moment that brought the country together. Instead, it did the exact opposite. We’ll discuss what, if anything, can be done to unite a divided America.