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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with poet Tracy K. Smith about the book she co-edited, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, which was published earlier this year.

Residents of Lebanon who do not support Hezbollah are caught between the Iran-backed militia and Israel as violence between them increases.

The U.S. government operated 100 boarding schools for American Indians on and off reservations. One expert says the schools were part of a strategy to conquer Indians. Students who attended them were required to talk and dress as mainstream Americans.

Omar Shakir of Human Rights Watch was ordered to leave the country for allegedly backing boycotts of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Aghast critics call it a blow to free expression.

NPR correspondents in Jerusalem and at the White House take stock after President Biden spoke out against controversial judicial reform proposals in Israel.

Scotland has a proud national tradition of poetry. Days after a historic referendum on independence, we look at how poems by Scottish writers can help us better understand this moment.

As the not-guilty verdict set in, protesters took to the streets and thinkers asked the big questions.

Two storms will bring heavy rain and winds to California on Thursday and into next week.

A third of black Americans say they avoid calling the police when in need because of fear of discrimination. And nearly half say they or a family member have been treated unfairly by the courts.

by both Republicans and Democrats following President Clinton's meeting with Congressional leaders yesterday at the Capitol. The President and Vice President Gore met with Congressional leaders to discuss the budget and other matters.