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Tom Cole, senior editor on NPR's Arts Desk, is retiring after 33 years of shepherding thousands of art pieces to broadcast. NPR bids him farewell.

Two new studies show the potential of personalized brain stimulation to treat psychiatric disorders. The approach delivers pulses of electric or magnetic energy to certain areas in the brain.

Most of the annual Martin Luther King Day celebrations were canceled due to the pandemic. But after a year dominated by racial turmoil, many cities decided to commemorate the holiday virtually.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, about the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and its implications for global relations with Russia.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, who wrote President-elect Joe Biden's biography, about the arc of Biden's political career — from youngest senator to oldest president.

Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun was a Philadelphia artist and keeper of Hmong embroidery tradition. She died from COVID-19 at age 76.

Europeans say Secretary of State Mike Pompeo didn't take the European Union seriously. But they believe things will be different with Antony Blinken, Biden's nominee for secretary of state.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mary McCord, legal director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, about how the incoming Biden administration may tackle domestic extremism.

Last year, an energy company started building one of the largest natural gas power plants of its kind in Guernsey County, Ohio.

A variety of new smartphone apps are being developed to help Americans navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fast food workers are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to make raising the minimum wage a priority during his first 100 days in office.

We revisit a conversation Here & Now's Tonya Mosely had with Gorman last October about her poetry as a tool for activism.

Prominent Russian dissident Alexei Navalny had been recuperating in Germany from a poisoning traced back to Russian labs in August.

As a child in 1960, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to desegregate an elementary school in New Orleans.

NPR's Tamara Keith discusses concerns about an insider attack during the Inauguration Day ceremonies this week.