Search results for

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Mark Harris about his new biography of the legendary director, best known for "The Graduate," "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" and "Carnal Knowledge."

The Biden administration must do more to identify and track three fast-spreading mutations of the COVID-19 virus, researchers say. Clearer CDC guidelines for masks and reopening would help too.

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the sentencing this week of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Putin critic was poisoned last year, recovered in Germany, then arrested for violating parole.

Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us.

The state of Wyoming, the country's largest coal producer, is the site of the Carbon XPrize in which entrepreneurs compete to capture carbon and turn it into commercial products.

The goal, XPrize says, is to tackle "the biggest threat facing humanity — fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth's carbon cycle. "

The child tax credit proposal would provide $3,600 per child under age 6 and $3,000 per child ages 6 to 17, depending on family income.

The U.S. is steadily increasing the number of people vaccinated while new, more contagious variants are increasing pressure to move faster.

The governing body of the Chicago Teachers Union will vote Monday on a tentative agreement with the mayor to reopen elementary public schools for in-person classes.

Tech giants have a long way to go in supporting "digital democracy" in our shifting society, says Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.