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U.S. groups will gather for community service projects to honor Martin Luther King Jr., but some say more is needed.

Did U.S. strikes on Houthi fighters, who've been attacking ships in the Red Sea, hurt or empower the group? NPR's Leila Fadel talks Ahmed Nagi, senior Yemen analyst for the International Crisis Group.

Their parents saw decades of significant economic expansion. But today, China's young workforce faces the prospects of slower economic growth.

What the Iowa caucus results say about former President Donald Trump and what they could mean for challengers Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears a case from a group of herring fisherman that could affect federal regulations on everything from the environment to the workplace.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Leirion Gaylor Baird, mayor of Lincoln, Neb., about her top issues for the election season, and how the next administration can help her community.

A wave of international orders, fueled by social media support, has all the machines running at an old-school, family-owned keffiyeh factory.

These five outstanding novels take us to unfamiliar eras and exotic locales — ancient Israel, Elizabethan England, 1920s Paris — while confirming our common humanity.

Science fiction and fantasy books aren't just getting more popular, they're interbreeding with other genres to produce wild new hybrid forms — swapping DNA with literary novels, commenting on current events, morphing into historical science fiction romances, and evolving into hard-boiled detective fantasy.

The term "Chicago politics" gets bandied about whenever people complain about what they see as corruption and abuse of power. But what does it actually mean? These four books examine the city's hardball approach to politics through various lenses.