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States are phasing in major changes to food assistance. We hear from people who are feeling the impact and from Ty Jones Cox of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Theresa Cardinal Brown, the Bipartisan Policy Center's senior adviser for immigration and border policy, about why America has struggled to fix its immigration problem.

The National Park Service is collaborating with several Springfield organizations for “Three Hot Days in August,” running from Thursday to Sunday.

'Nightmare bacteria,' strains of superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics, have quadrupled in number in the last decade--and have been found lurking in hospitals in 42 states. NIH epidemiologist Tara Palmore and infectious disease specialist Brad Spellberg discuss how to find and contain these bugs, and a few ways we might outsmart them.

During a pandemic that led many to grapple with grief, distress and isolation – and civil rights uprising against police brutality and systemic racism – a lack of support for those suffering from mental health distress became increasingly evident. There is a growing movement to create a mental health crisis response that doesn’t solely rely on police.

Susan Monarez's attorneys say she's being targeted for refusing to fire top health experts.

The FDA and CDC are telling Americans a COVID-19 vaccine booster will only happen "when science demonstrates they are needed."

The leading edge of the Baby Boom Generation (b. between 1946 and 1964) turns 50 in the new year. The boomers were the first generation to grow up with television and television profited by offering the boomers an ever-changing picture of themselves: the child in an idealized all-American family like Donna Reed's, disaffected youths fighting for the greater good like the Mod Squad, young single working women trying to make it on their own, like Mary Richards, or sensitive males who were against the Vietnam War, personified by Hawkeye Pierce, in MASH. Recent attempts by the TV industry to program for a more youthful audience have not reaped the same rewards so Boomers may soon see themselves back at center stage on the small screen. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports.

Noah talks with Chuck Culpepper, a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, about Rick Pitino's decision to keep his job as the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's basketball team. Pitino had been offered a five-year, thirty million dollar deal with the New Jersey Nets, which would have made him the head coach of that team, as well as the director of basketball operations. Culpepper claims that Pitino's reluctance to move comes as no surprise, even though Pitino hails from the New York-New Jersey area, and the deal would have included partial ownership of the Nets. Pitino has claimed that he likes the sense of community that Lexington provides, as opposed to the center-less sprawl of the New Jersey suburbs.

Jerry Seinfeld's animated comedy centers on an amusing honeybee who talks a lot about nothing, then quits work — whereupon the world gets dreary until he starts up again. It's a fairly personal vision — and a bit of a drone.