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Natural disasters are intensifying and happening more often. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with former FEMA administrator Craig Fugate about the agency's role in the worsening climate crisis.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Taveeshi Gupta of the nonprofit Equimundo, whose latest international survey explores how fathers feel about being more active in caretaking and domestic responsibilities.

Home insurance is becoming more expensive and increasingly difficult to get in states that are on the front lines of climate change. And some of the potential solutions aren't politically popular.

Cambodians will vote in an election Sunday that will be neither free nor fair, but will extend the 38-year long rule of Hun Sen and likely ensure the succession of his son.

The new Afghanistan military strategy was unveiled by the Trump administration this week. Historian Max Boot talks to Scott Simon about how different this will be from previous strategies.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Republican Rep. Tom Reed about the Republican health care bill that was pulled yesterday before the House voted on it. Reed supported the bill.

Author Lang Leav's new book is set in Australia in the 1990s and centers around a group of teens who are the children of refugees who fled the Khmer Rouge.

The American Political Science Association, or APSA, is holding its annual meeting in Los Angeles this weekend despite calls from striking hotel workers for conferences to stay away from the city.

A breakthrough seemed to happen last year when settlement talks began with five accused men. Now government prosecutors say they'll quit negotiating unless the defense offers to settle Friday.

Americans spend an estimated $100 billion each year on lottery tickets. It's a tradition that dates back to the nation's earliest settlers, and was even one the Founding Fathers took part in.