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In rural North Carolina, an electric cooperative is reliving its New Deal history, bringing technologies like electric cars and broadband Internet to isolated communities struggling with poverty.

The Tony Awards are tonight, and NPR entertainment editor Trey Graham will be watching. But he thinks it's too bad that there aren't any categories for the best backstage dramas. Until that day comes, here are three applause-worthy books about what goes on behind the scenes.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with John Kerry, President Biden's climate envoy, about this week's virtual climate summit and how the U.S. will meet its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

KCRW's Anna Scott has spent nearly two years following one woman, Christine Curtiss, through the Los Angeles County homeless services system. Now, Curtiss finally has a permanent, subsidized home.

The Senate has passed an infrastructure package worth more than $1.2 trillion dollars. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, a Democrat of Massachusetts, about the hurdles ahead.

Democrats have staked their political future on enacting President Biden's plans for trillions in social spending, but they have struggled to convince voters.

Dylan's electric performance of the song at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival made Joni Mitchell say, "The American folk song has grown up."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Joshua Seftel and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai about "Stranger at the Gate," an Oscar-nominated short documentary that he directed and she produced.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak also promised to provide artillery systems to Ukraine, amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting Kyiv and a number of other Ukrainian cities.

We hear how the community is grappling with the police killing of Tyre Nichols.