Search results for

Author D. Watkins says that crack destroyed his East Baltimore neighborhood, and he explains how the real day-to-day of selling drugs is nothing like the movies. His new book is The Beast Side.

Now that U.K. voters have decided to leave, how are British cultural institutions responding?

In a remote Indian mangrove forest, the arrival of solar power is good for small, local businesses and students trying to study at night. It also means fewer people are being eaten by tigers.

About a dozen states have added hepatitis C to the list of medical conditions for which people can face criminal prosecution if they knowingly engage in activities that could spread the disease.

With enrollment funding tight, health plan navigators and assisters are getting creative about getting the word out and signing people up for Affordable Care Act plans.

A Senate proposal to repeal Obamacare includes $45 billion to treat opioid addiction. But it wouldn't make up for deep cuts to Medicaid in that same bill that has funded much of that treatment.

A World Health Organization representative just advised wearing masks after vaccination. The CDC has a different perspective. We asked public health specialists to weigh in.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with The Washington Post's Drew Harwell about the ethical concerns posed by new AI technology.

NPR's David Greene talks to Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, a surrogate for the Bernie Sanders campaign, who says Donald Trump has been awful to the people of the upper Midwest.

The Trump administration says there is a national security crisis at the Southern border. But most people in the country illegally didn't sneak across the border; they overstayed their visas.