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A PBS documentaryabout the 1964 movement to get blacks to vote in Mississippi airs Tuesday. Freedom Summer director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discuss the dangers the students faced.

Zimbabwe goes to the polls July 30, for its first election post-Mugabe. A new program is training survivors of past political violence to be citizen monitors for this year's elections.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Howard Sherman about his new book, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century," which interviews participants from an array of productions.

NPR's Steve Inskeep checks back in with David Unger and his wife Kathleen Quinn, an American couple who have not left their home in Italy for two months.

"Brave New Workers" tells stories of Americans adapting to a changing economy. This week: a former contractor who lost his business when the housing bubble burst found a new livelihood grooming cats.

Students today have no memory of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, so this year's anniversary poses unique challenges for educators and caregivers trying to explain what happened and why.

People came out in record numbers Wednesday to cast their ballots. Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving discusses what the results mean for the rest of the country and where the candidates go from here.

Some religious groups fear the Equality Act could undermine the freedom to exercise traditional faith beliefs. Other denominations say anti-LGBTQ discrimination cannot be tolerated.

Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks that had the death toll climbing by the hour.

Israel — with rare exceptions — has prevented foreign journalists from entering Gaza. As such, Palestinian reporters remain the world's eyes and ears on the ground, and they do so at great peril.