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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to Hanif Abdurraqib about the new book There's Always This Year. It's a mix of memoir, essays, and poems, looking at the role basketball played in Abdurraqib's life.

Melissa Rogozinski's story of sexual assault in 2016 serves as a reminder that when lawyers are accused of sexual misconduct, there is rarely substantial punishment, one expert says.

There is a growing number of Christians around the world looking to visit Israel, driven by the desire to show support for the country and Jews as popular support for Israel falters.

Hawaii's unique birds, known as honeycreepers, are being wiped out by mosquitoes carrying avian malaria. The birds' last hope could be more mosquitoes, designed to crash their own population.

I was in Windows On The World the day before 9/11. It took me two years and folding a thousand origami cranes before I could write this essay; it's taken another 18 years for it to be published.

A handful of names for the unified Ypsilanti-Willow Run school district surfaced as favorites at a public forum last night. WEMU's Bob Eccles reports.

A month into the Russian invasion, the situation worsens in Ukraine. Biden's Supreme Court nominee faces a final day of senators' questions. A new Idaho law is modeled after the abortion ban in Texas.

Paul Farmer is a physician and an anthropologist, and according to at least one of his former patients in Haiti, he's a god. Farmer specializes in infectious disease; he's made it his mission to transform health care on a global scale, by focusing on the world's poorest and sickest communities. Writer Tracy Kidder profiles Farmer in his new book, Mountains Beyond Mountains. Read an excerpt.

After years of being beaten up, this teen decided to take justice into his own hands. A school district in Oregon showed him a better way to solve his problems.