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NPR tells the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of the first person with a genetic disorder to be treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR.

Going holiday shopping is stressful enough with the crowds and last-minute gift lists. But then somebody's kid starts screaming... Host Michel Martin talks tantrums with parents Caitlin Coakley Beckner, Yvette Young-DeCosta and Gayle Trotter.

Half of the top 10 spots in 2019's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll went to women. But a deeper look at the data from across the poll's lifetime complicates claims about women's equality in jazz.

Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novelLonesome Dove, McMurtry wrote more than 30 books and screenplays, many set in the West. He died on March 25. Originally broadcast in 1995.

There are 50 thousand war crimes under investigation in Ukraine. NPR looked into just one case — the death of a man — and what it might take to find justice.

Economist Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents and two sons in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Wave is her searing, unflinching account of learning to live with that loss, and of allowing herself to remember the life that she lost.

"It wasn't like I had to go looking for the drugs and the sex," Anthony DeCurtis, author of Lou Reed: A Life,toldFresh Airin 2017. "Lou wrote about it ... so I felt it was fair game."

Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold says the Trump Foundation doesn't operate like a typical charity: "[Trump] doesn't seem to have understood that a charity isn't set up to benefit you."

For a column that often revels in the politics of the past, it's the time of year to look at the people who left us and assess the impact they made.

It's not just Louis C.K. and Stephen Colbert who are confused about the Common Core. Get the facts here.