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Five years after the pandemic, have Broadway audiences come back? And what musicals and plays are opening, in the weeks ahead, that might draw in crowds?

NPR's Scott Simon considers the stenciled messages in the end zones of the Super Bowl — "CHOOSE LOVE" and "IT TAKES ALL OF US" — and imagines how players could take those messages to heart.

It's an unusual winter for respiratory illnesses. The flu is peaking twice: once in early January and again in February. Meanwhile, it's the mildest COVID winter since the pandemic began.

The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display.

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land from the grasp of others.

There is one economic riddle ahead of Super Bowl Sunday: The egg market has been hit hard by avian flu, but wings are abundant and relatively affordable this year. So what gives?

An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.

Some companies have announced diversity rollbacks — but many more are deleting or softening language from their investor disclosures, an NPR analysis finds.

Picture book author Mac Barnett has been named the Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. He discusses what the role means when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle. Library of Congress' new ambassador for young people's literature. We talk with Barnett about what it means to be named to this role in this moment, when engaging kids in reading can be a struggle, and when there are more challenges to what kids are free to read.

New administration moves to implement Trump's agenda at the Justice Department, big companies scrub mention of DEI from annual investor reports, and flu is spiking for a second time this season.