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NPR's Pien Huang speaks to Jennifer Gray Thompson, founder and CEO of After the Fire USA, about what to expect from long-term recovery after a wildfire.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Raphael Cormack about his new book, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult."

Ever since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by several people in 2022, Arcade Fire's hometown scene has struggled with how to respond.

This week in the Barbershop we take up Bill Cosby's guilty verdict, Kanye West's controversial tweets, and a newly drafted Buffalo Bills quarterback whose social media past has come back to haunt him.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three nurses from around the country about how the omicron variant has affected their work and what their year has been like on the front lines of the pandemic.

Jessica Pishko says a group of sheriffs have become a flashpoint in the current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy and rural resentment. Her book is The Highest Law in the Land.

A 1938 law created "exploitative and discriminatory" job programs and should be phased out, marking a new milestone in the debate over "sheltered workshops," the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says.

Public health officials want more Americans to get the latest COVID vaccine booster. Only 35% of people over 65 have gotten the shot, though 75% of COVID deaths are among people in this age group.

Pizzarelli, who died April 1 of COVID-19, played with Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, among others. He spoke to Fresh Air in '92 and again, with his son John, in '06.

For eight years, photographer Jennifer Teresa Villanueva has documented her Mexican American family's everyday life in Chicago, capturing intimate moments of love, labor and sacrifice.