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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with British author and soccer commentator Musa Okwonga about the mass boycott of social media this weekend to protest online abuse directed at players of color.

GOP-led legislatures in dozens of states are moving to change election laws in ways that could make it harder to vote, for example, by reducing early voting days or limiting access to voting by mail.

Seven years after the kidnapping of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls, a new book shares insights into their survival strategies — and looks at the mixed blessing of the 'Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.

As India faces a pandemic crisis, ordinary folks are doing their share: finding hospital beds, handing out meals, sharing a meditative moment. Public health experts say it's making an impact.

The decision by a federal bankruptcy judge grants members of the family who own Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, sweeping protection from any liability for the opioid crisis.

A case of the virus, which claimed a 12-year-old boy's life, has sparked fears of a new outbreak in India. Researchers fear that the deadly disease has the potential to cause global outbreaks as well.

The United States inadvertently took on a mission to democratize Afghanistan and instead undermined democracy at home, as unpopular wars tend to do.

Media outlets have become so quick to feed the public feel-good stories about the singer that routine fact-checking seems to be getting overlooked, as a recently viral story shows.

Scott Simon speaks to James McMurtry about the troubadour's first full-length studio album in seven years, "The Horses and the Hounds."

Biden made the pledge during his presidential campaign. But the withdrawal of ground troops from Afghanistan isn't the end of all U.S. military operations.