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What is it that makes you...you? NPR's Shankar Vedantam explores new research that suggests the labels we use to categorize people affect not just who they are now, but who they'll be in the future.

NPR's investigations correspondent and Jennifer Mizrahi, president of RespectAbility, answer listener questions about people with disabilities navigating the new reality during the pandemic.

The failure of the hydropower dam flooded several villages and forced thousands of people to flee, state media report.

The new Al Pacino movie People I Know offers an acid portrait of Manhattan politics, and Pacino provides the story with a complex, nuanced anti-hero. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.

A lot has changed in the U.S. over two centuries. One thing that hasn't? How we talk about poor white people.

A service in car-dependent LA is attracting lots of clients. Chuck McCarthy is an actor who started a people walking business. For $7 a mile, he'll take humans on walks. He chats but mostly listens.

The suspect in the Austin bombings has been described as "troubled" by police and media. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Code Switch reporter Gene Demby about people's reluctance to call him a terrorist.

Commentator J.C. Watts credits President Bush for having done more to empower African Americans and other minorities than any president in recent history. But how will this claim resonate at the ballot box among people of color?

The Obama administration released new enrollment numbers on Monday for the government's health insurance exchange. The numbers address the demographics of enrollees in the exchange. Administration officials are encouraged that people under the age of 35 constitute approximately a quarter of enrollees.

Google tweeted that search interest in dating is at a five-year high in the United States. A lot of people are googling "virtual first date ideas" and "how to date."