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According to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, the middle class is losing ground. The report finds the middle class has shifted into lower and upper-income households. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Rakesh Kochhar, the lead author of the report and associate director of research at the Pew Research Center, about what it now means to be part of the middle class. Then, Audie Cornish turns to NPR's Mara Liasson about what a shrinking middle class means for the presidential race.

Iranians are hoping the recent election of more reformers to parliament will help improve the economy.

Oprah, Sheryl Sandberg and Malala Yousafzai lead the list of world changers. But there are a lot of unsung candidates who deserve a shout-out.

How fast can you vaccinate a goat? That's one of the challenges in "Female Food Heroes," a contest in Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

Intel is revealing more details about its diversity goals — the ones the chipmaker has met and failed to meet — than any other Silicon Valley giant to date.

Donald Trump won seven Super Tuesday contests. Steve Inskeep talks to former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman about the results. She has endorsed John Kasich, who did not have a great night.

You may know the caddis fly as a fishing lure. But bioengineers hunting a better way to seal wounds and set bones say the larvae of these insects have a few tricks we should try to mimic.

Sales of food labeled "non-GMO" are booming, and it's starting to annoy organic food companies. They see the non-GMO label as cut-rate competition that doesn't deliver what shoppers imagine.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with longtime Village Voice investigative reporter Wayne Barrett about Donald Trump's mentor and lawyer, Roy Cohn, who is said to have taught Trump the strategy of attack, counterattack and never apologize. Barrett is author of the 1991 biography of Trump, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.

As their parents engage in a bitter real-estate dispute, the friendship between two adolescent boys deepens in Ira Sach's new film. Critic David Edelstein calls Little Men "quietly devastating."