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  • In cohousing communities, neighbors share common spaces, chores and a sense of connection that benefits everyone. For some, it's an answer to the isolation of parenting that many families feel today.
  • Forty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., announced final plans for a march on Washington for his Poor People's Campaign. One of his most ambitious political goals, it was aimed at eliminating poverty, regardless of race. Author David Shipler revisits King's vision.
  • We're marking Parkinson’s Awareness Month by talking with two people devoted to helping people living with the neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Ramon Gil is a neurologist at the Parkinson’s Treatment Center Of Southwest Florida, and Mary Spremulli is a medical speech-language pathologist and owner of Voice Aerobics Speech Language Therapy in Punta Gorda. We also talk with one of her clients, a 78-year-old man named Mike Davidson who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016.
  • We're marking Parkinson’s Awareness Month by talking with two people devoted to helping people living with the neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Ramon Gil is a neurologist at the Parkinson’s Treatment Center Of Southwest Florida, and Mary Spremulli is a medical speech-language pathologist and owner of Voice Aerobics Speech Language Therapy in Punta Gorda. We also talk with one of her clients, a 78-year-old man named Mike Davidson who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016.
  • The new documentary “Love Wins Over Hate” features a series of honest and thought-provoking interviews with former white supremacists, and others who held extreme views but have since renounced them. It attempts to get to the heart of why people hate, and sometimes take on extremist ideologies like white supremacy. And what it takes to escape that world, and in some cases go on to work to help others escape. We talk with its producer and director, Susan Polis Schutz.
  • The new documentary “Love Wins Over Hate” features a series of honest and thought-provoking interviews with former white supremacists, and others who held extreme views but have since renounced them. It attempts to get to the heart of why people hate, and sometimes take on extremist ideologies like white supremacy. And what it takes to escape that world, and in some cases go on to work to help others escape. We talk with its producer and director, Susan Polis Schutz.
  • City officials have named the 12 people killed in a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday.
  • Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. government will ban transgender people from serving in the military, citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption."
  • People used more cups and paper when recycling was an option versus when they had to put them in the trash. Researchers say people's guilt for wasting is overridden by the good feelings for recycling.
  • People in northern Kentucky are reacting to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. It is near the hometown of James Alex Fields Jr., the man who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one woman.
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