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A divided Senate voted 50 to 48 to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the high court. The bitter campaign could leave a mark on his reputation and on public confidence in the institution, legal experts say.

John McPhee is a writer's writer. He's thought of as one of the progenitors of the New Journalism, of creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, along…

WNPR’s Jeff Cohen and Ryan Caron King are back on the ground in Puerto Rico.This hour: an update from The Island Next Door. We get the latest on local…

The tit-for-tat trade war is putting pressure on Chinese President Xi Jinping from inside his own country.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Andrew Jones of the nonprofit Climate Interactive about why he thinks people should fight to reverse the climate change trend, despite recent bleak projections.

Last fall, 2,281 new students poured into Connecticut from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Sixty-five percent of…

The line between appreciation and appropriation can be hard to pinpoint. Experts weigh in on the writer's dilemma: Should her husband have worn a Filipino barong to a family party?

Growing awareness of privacy scandals and the spread of misinformation on social media may mean our love affair with technology has ended, and a new era of regulation is about to begin.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jeremy Fox of The Boston Globe about the effects of this week's nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid in Massachusetts.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, about the CBO report on the cost of the latest health care bill and the group's overall reliability in predicting the cost of such legislation.