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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Arash Azizzada, a Los Angeles based local organizer in the Afghan-American community that is helping Afghans escape after the country came under Taliban control.

Thousands of activists are in Washington today for a march calling for federal action to protect voting rights. Bills in Congress are stalled as GOP-led states enact voting restrictions.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is expected to be the next defacto leader of the Taliban. Having fought against the Russians and Americans, he must now convince the west the Taliban will be a more moderate force.

Professor Jonathan Mayer of Princeton University built a system like Apple's to flag for child sex abuse. He talks to NPR about why he's warned against using the system and believes it is dangerous.

With just days to go before the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan, a look at how the 20 year old war began and ended - with the militant Taliban in power, and terrorist suicide attacks.

We're back at Tanglewood with special guest, actress Jane Kaczmarek. She played the beloved mom on Malcolm in the Middle, so we'll ask her three questions about middle fingers throughout history.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Roberto Velasco Alvarez, of Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about the recent lawsuit his government filed against U.S. guns manufacturers.

We look at the latest inflation numbers — which are high and rising — and how the federal government plans to respond to those figures.

We look at the continued political fall out for the Biden Administration from Afghanistan, progress on the Infrastrucure Bill, as well today's Voting Rights marches, planned in several cities.

Two professors invited indigenous artisans to make masks portraying the agent of the pandemic — the coronavirus — through the lens of their cultural traditions.

Newly released documents reveal how the founder of the biomedical startup intends to defend herself at a federal fraud trial starting next week.

LeUyen Pham has written and illustrated more than 100 books for kids of all ages — so we asked her to give us some solid middle-grade reading recmomendations for kids heading back to school.