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A lot can happen in 95 years. Ahead of the Academy Awards on Sunday, we take a look back at the surprises, the scandals, the slap and — yes — even the streaker.

The shoegaze scene never made another record like Starflyer 59’s surfy bummer Gold… until now. A new album inspires this playlist of artists returning to old bands, former sounds and beloved songs.

In a year in which the European far-right made electoral gains in several countries, Poland proved an exception. This month the ruling Law and Justice Party left power.

Alison Gopnik, author of The Philosophical Baby, dug into the long-avoided question about what's going on in little ones' noggins. Psychologists have long thought of babies as incomplete adults, but Gopnik thinks they're smarter than we think, and even, in many ways, more intelligent than adults.

HIV/AIDS is commonly considered an individual affliction, however Abigail Neely says that HIV/AIDS needs to be considered within the social, cultural, and…

After the power struggle to fill the power vacuum left by Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, right-wing reformers won control of the government and Deng Xiaoping…

No matter where you land on the climate change discussion, humans have become a geophysical force that impacts everything from local ecosystems to the…

Starting in the 1960s, the Mexican-American community began a period of reawakening.In his new book, Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican…

Pakistan’s burgeoning, educated youth population and various religious and militant groups pose distinct policy concerns for the South Asian nuclear power…

International law impacts the behavior of both national governments and international non-state actors, governing things like the use of drones and…

After thousands of entries, the Tiny Desk Contest judges have landed on this year's winner.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the verdict in the Whitewater trial has cast a shadow over President Clinton, who just a week ago was far ahead of Dole in the polls. Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. CHINA DISSIDENT -- Noah talks with Mike Jendrzejczyk (jenn-DREEZ-sick), the Washington Director of Human Rights Watch-Asia. Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai (WAHNG dong-HY) after he and six other activists petitioned the National People's Congress on May 27th, demanding the release of political prisoners. Mr. Jendrzejczyk believes that paranoia in the Chinese government toward the democracy movement has increased in recent months as economic reforms have triggered more unrest. This recent round of arrests comes one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro- democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.