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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with David Haig, who co-wrote the screenplay of the new movie "Pressure." It's based on Haig's play about the meteorologist tasked with predicting the weather on D-Day.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards of the grunge-rock group Failure about their new album "Location Lost" and the influence of space-related themes on their music.

Sherill Baldwin can often be found at an overgrown cemetery in Connecticut. She found it by chance, but now she's part of a movement of "cemetery citizens"--providing some TLC to forgotten plots.

NPR's Scott Simon asks astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his latest book, "Take Me to Your Leader."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with sports writer Joe Posnanski and television writer Michael Schur about their new book, "Big Fan," detailing the culture of sports fandom.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants a sweeping overhaul of how the board members of the three largest state universities are selected, as well as Michigan's attorney general and secretary of state.

Chile digs desert trenches along its northern border as President José Antonio Kast pushes a hardline migration crackdown critics say may have little effect.

Dohrn's parents helped found the Weather Underground. His memoir is Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young. Ward learned the term "respair" — the recovery of hope after despair — during the pandemic.

Surging food costs and fuel prices are pummeling Maine's struggling groundfishing industry. But a pandemic-era program is helping to keep it afloat as inflation worsens.

On this day in 1939, the Detroit City Council voted to ban pinball machines from being played outside on the streets, concerned they were being used for gambling. While Los Angeles banned them completely, Detroit opted for a more moderate approach. And today is Gwen Frostic Day in Michigan, as proclaimed by Governor William Milliken in 1978. Born in the Michigan Thumb, Frostic’s art studio near Sleeping Bear Dunes became a nature lover's attraction. She wrote her own epitaph: “Here lies one doubly blessed. She was happy and she knew it.”