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Lloyd Schwartz discusses the timeless appeal of the late choreographer George Balanchine. "[He] was our Shakespeare. ... watching a Balanchine ballet is like watching music come alive," he says.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University School of Public Health, about how people can be affected by constant exposure to mass tragedy.

Human Rights Watch has long lobbied the U.S. government to take action against the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that has terrorized central Africa since the 1980s. Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth talks to Melissa Block about President Obama's announcement late last week that about 100 members of the U.S. military will be sent to Uganda to help the local government combat the rebels.

Several schools did not show President Obama's speech Tuesday to the schoolchildren, but Jean Ferguson, principal of Amos P. Godbey High School in Tallahassee, Fla., did. Ferguson says of the 1,270 students at her school, 70 students opted not to watch the speech.

Investors are watching the Fed, the AI boom, and President-elect Donald Trump's promised economic policies.

Usually around this time, Hollywood is talking about how to keep its box office momentum going. This year, January was so lackluster that studios had to jump-start moviegoing from scratch.

Palestinians and Israelis watch the genocide case at a United Nations court — as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Sarah McCammon talks to Variety's Gavin Bridge about how sports fandom and viewership is shifting in the U.S.

Our favorite Tiny Desk Contest entries this week include a playful jazz track, a tender love song, an empathetic look at city life and more.

The president's visit will be a defining moment. Will the region be reassured and put at ease or left only further concerned that the era of Pax Americana may finally be ending?

The NFL plans to sell the rights to live stream more than a dozen regular season football games next season. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Peter Kafka of ReCode about the NFL's plan.

The comic, who died Thursday, told Fresh Air that it took him years to develop a style — and then he got dumped. "That was really the beginning of the Garry Shandling dating years in stand-up."