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Washington is closing out a week that included a vortex of developments involving President Trump, Congress and the 2020 election. Here's what may be around the corner.

Carrie Brownstein joins the All Songs gang to chat about relentless earworms, annoying novelty songs and other songs our hosts think of as quite possibly the worst of all time

Last week, the Fed voted to cut interest rates despite a decade of economic growth and low unemployment. Interest rates are already super low. What's going on?

Speaking in the capital, a spokesman for China's Hong Kong affairs office said protesters will be "held accountable" and said that Beijing had "tremendous power" to put down the protests.

NPR's David Greene speaks with former National Security Council senior director Javed Ali, who's among those calling on the government to make fighting homegrown terrorists a priority.

Bessie Smith could wrap the blues around anything. She was the voice of freedom and of dislocation, heard by black audiences on the vaudeville circuit and white ones at Manhattan parties.

Federal judges said a lower court was wrong to dismiss the former vice presidential candidate's lawsuit against the newspaper over an editorial that linked her to a 2011 mass shooting.

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Morning Edition contributor Kwame Alexander about how she will be remembered.

For anyone struggling to use "they" as a singular pronoun, linguist Geoff Nunberg says: Just practice. He believes human language processing capacity is far more adaptable than people realize.

In her new book of essays, culture writer Jia Tolentino explores how social media shapes identity, public discourse and political engagement — particularly for millennials such as herself.