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The children's books by the author and artist who goes by just one name -- Demi -- are works of art. With brilliant jewel-toned colors, intricate patterns and gold leaf on every page, the books look like they belong on a museum wall instead of in a children's playroom. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Demi about her work.

Twenty-five years ago today, the leaders of Egypt and Israel signed a framework for peace in the Middle East. President Jimmy Carter, who mediated the Camp David Accords, tells NPR's Bob Edwards the historic agreement holds lessons for the region today.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to history professor Peggy Pascoe of the University of Oregon in Eugene about U.S. laws that were the nation's longest lasting form of legalized racial discrimination. For three centuries, states had laws of various sorts barring marriage between people thought to be of different "races." They lasted halfway into the 20th century when a Supreme Court decision overturned the last ones. We compare and contrast the fears behind those laws with fears against same-sex marriage today.

The Washington Post won six Pulitzer prizes, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

As China's strict communist ideology erodes, prostitution booms. But Christian churches are sprouting in the heartland. In the third of a series on his journey through the world's most populous nation, NPR's Rob Gifford notes the resurgence of prostitution and religion.

Chicago's Ebenezer Baptist Church has a long history, but the older building needs preservation help. That story and more on this episode of Statewide.

One in five single men says he has zero close friends.

Libraries are for everyone. That's what librarian Amanda Jones believes, and what she said last year at her local library board meeting in her small town in Louisiana.

We get into Miranda's queer awakening, the writers' strike, and more.

Making better choices to lower your cholesterol can be a lot harder than it sounds.