Search results for

In Sitka, Alaska, one of the most revered members of the community is the thorny devil's club plant. But the plant's popularity as a medicinal may endanger its sacred role in Tlingit culture.

Nancy Mitford's Voltaire in Love is a delightful account of a brainy romp of a romance in 18th-century France. Writer Stacy Schiff says Mitford's retelling of the affair feels every bit as passionate as it must have been in the original.

The science around hormone therapy to treat menopause has changed a lot since the FDA issued warning labels 20 years ago. Now the labels are being removed, here are 6 things to consider.

NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Jeremy Roebuck, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, about what the city's police commissioner calls "one of the worst cases of corruption" he has ever heard.

Season 5 of the HBO series ended with a lot of cliffhangers. The sixth season is the first one that goes beyond the realm of the books that the show is based on.

The leaders of China and Taiwan will meet in Singapore on Saturday, the first such meeting since the end of China's civil war in 1949. It comes just a couple of months before Taiwan's election.

A public meeting on Jan. 17 provided a glimpse into the tensions surrounding a carbon capture and storage project proposed for the foothills above Bakersfield, California, in the heart of the state’s oil country.

NY Times Congressional reporter Luke Broadwater says the effort to overturn the '20 election results was a "sprawling and diffuse" one that involved local governments as well as White House insiders.