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The focus on the court could help energize conservatives in key states. Progressives are fired up, too — immediately after Saturday's announcement, Democrats tied Barrett to a fight for health care.

Bryan Cranston stars as a judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run in New Orleans in the new Showtime series, Your Honor. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Heritage experts say hundreds of thousands of pieces have been looted at archaeological sites and museums. As the illegal trade in antiquities continues, Iraq is trying to get objects returned.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with author Eula Biss about her new book. Having and Being Had attempts to answer questions on capitalism: What is it? Is it inevitable? And how do we live outside it?

Eight states and Washington, D.C., have paid family leave programs funded through payroll taxes. But a similar bill in blue-state Colorado is being watered down.

NPR Music correspondents Ann Powers and Sidney Madden recommend a few favorite livestreaming performance series to check out while in-person concerts are on hold.

As more and more people get tested for antibodies to the coronavirus, infectious disease specialists worry that those tested — and their employers — may not understand the limits of the results.

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major racial disparities in mortality and other measures of health.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Dr. Juan Sanchez, CEO of Southwest Key Programs and Alexia Rodriguez, vice president of Immigrant Children's Services about the facilities that children are being sent to after being separated from their families at the border.