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P.W. Singer and Emerson Brooking say social media has been manipulated to fuel popular uprisings and affect the course of military and political campaigns. Their new book is LikeWar.

Taylor Swift has famously stayed out of politics, but that changed Sunday with a stirring endorsement of Tennessee Democrats. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Washington Post reporter Emily Yahr about Swift's surprising reversal.

Critic David Edelstein says that despite the film's "mushy" story arc, it's hard to resist Cooper's remake of the classic film about an up-and-coming superstar.

College drinking culture today. Students talk about their habits and attitudes around alcohol.

For years, Wigstock was a staple of New York City's drag scene. And after a 17-year hiatus and a boom in drag's popularity, the outdoor festival returned.

China's leaders try to muzzle free expression beyond their borders, inside liberal democracies, when speech contradicts the Communist Party line on issues like the status of Tibet and Taiwan.

On a recent visit, NPR journalists witnessed a country in transformation that was at turns impressive, surreal, beautiful, melancholy and human. Still, its leaders retain tight control over society.

A seal in a viral video was probably just messing around with its food. Researchers say sea lions don't care enough about humans to want to slap one of us with an octopus.

Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja stunned the crowd of 25,000 gathered to watch the LA Galaxy take on the Seattle Sounders. Her gut-busting performance has gone viral.

The 20-foot-tall stainless steel cube was decorated with life-size human statues and semi-submerged in a coral lagoon. The artwork was criticized because it depicted human figures.