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Urban density spurs innovation. But it turns out that some kinds of density are better than others. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited, explains how going vertical can mute creativity, and spreading out can enhance it.

The AstraZeneca vaccine has been deemed safe to use. Biden and Harris will visit Georgia after the Atlanta shooting. FBI Director Wray talks about the bureau's obstacles.

The Alliance for the Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Its Invitational50 exhibition thanks 50 select artists for the contributions they have made to the Alliance, and the community it has created over the years. Terry Lynn Spry and Nina Conner's reciprocal portraits are just one of Invitational50's great stories about the Alliance for the Arts.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

Ebenezer Scrooge has assiduously avoided accountability his entire life. Until that night he was visited by three ghosts. However, his redemption is short lived. Now he’s taking the ghosts and Jacob Marley to court for compensatory and punitive damages. Scrooge actor, Bill McNulty, says the play is a comedy with heart and soul.

Jean Guerrero tells NPR she became fascinated, when reporting from the border, with how a descendant of Jewish refugees ended up as the person crafting Donald Trump's "harshest rhetoric and policies."

The story of Motown Records is a quintessentially American story about the American Dream, civil rights and entrepreneurship — but it has a special significance in Detroit, where it all started.

We're a nation of legal drug-takers, with 59 percent of adults using at least one prescription drug. That's up from 50 percent 10 years ago. Increased rates of obesity may be the cause.

Mitt Romney spoke to about 1,500 of the GOP faithful in a hangar at Tampa International Airport. There, he softened his usual attacks on President Obama,…

NPR's Ari Shapiro asks NPR' pop culture blogger Linda Holmes to put the much-anticipated new Star Wars film into perspective.