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Co-writers and co-directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina spent six years creating their Oscar-nominated animated film about the Day of the Dead. Originally broadcast Jan. 10, 2018.

Melissa Block talks to Elaine Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times, about the suspects in Wednesday's attack on the office of a satirical publication.

Months after Buzzfeed writer Matt Stopera's phone was stolen, new pictures from China started uploading to his photo stream.

Already the contest has proved interesting: more than 165,000 of the state’s voters switched their party registration for the closed primary.

Taco Bell has a younger demographic than other fast food franchises. Every week, younger workers provide older ones with a new millennial term — though some are lost in translation.

This past week, Somali-born actor Barkhad Abdi received an Academy Award nomination for his role opposite Tom Hanks in the film Captain Phillips. The part was his first acting role. Abdi plays a Somali pirate who leads the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. He spoke with NPR's Arun Rath in October about learning to relate to his character. ( This story originally aired onAll Things Considere d on Oct. 20, 2013.)

President Bush, campaigning in Western swing states, repeats his stance that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is part of the fight against the al Qaeda terrorist network. A report to the Sept. 11 commission, delivered this week, concluded there is "no credible evidence" that such a link existed. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

By assessing the strength of certain connections in the brain with an MRI test, researchers were often able to tell whether children and adolescents had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Braille hasn't changed much in the nearly 200 years it's been around. But with tablets, smartphones and e-readers, how we read things has. Judy Dixon of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped talks with NPR about how technology has changed Braille — and whether it can endure.

Can a bad mood be contagious? Lulu Miller, from NPR's Invisibilia podcast, examines one of the ways in which we're all connected –- whether we realize it or not.