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Scott Simon talks with Chef Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans about the career of humorist and cook Justin Wilson who helped to popularize Cajun cooking in the United States.

Plummeting world coffee prices have meant the end of jobs for hundreds of thousands of coffee pickers. In Nicaragua the crisis has reached desperate levels. Without work, coffee pickers are homeless and beginning to starve. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Nicaragua.

Lisa Simeone talks with deejay and producer Fatboy Slim about his career and his song and video Weapon of Choice. Fatboy Slim is the pseudonym of Norman Cook, the mix-master who dominated the MTV Video Music Awards this week.

The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.

Host Linda Wertheimer reports on a twin explosion we're experiencing in the United States. Dr. Barbara Luke of the University of Michigan's Division of Prenatal Epidemiology talks about some of the reasons.

This highly contagious virus first appeared only about two months ago — and already it's killed around 23 million chickens and turkeys.

While the experimental series has a star-studded cast — including Issa Rae and Nicole Kidman — its directors meld the fantastical with the real.

Experts say the loss of the Moskva — the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet — is significant both symbolically and militarily, even if it doesn't deal a decisive blow to Russia's overall operations.

Troops from 27 countries wrapped up one of the largest NATO war games since the 1980s — in the Arctic. Russia's war in Ukraine made the exercise feel like more than a game.

The U.S. is making the largest investment in history in the country's water system. In the rush to spend, some worry green projects will be overlooked.