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A toddler burned his hand on the stove. The pediatrician told mom over the phone to take him to the emergency room. But after a long wait for a doctor who never showed, they left. Then the bill came.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mac Warner, West Virginia's secretary of state, about a bipartisan campaign by state election officials to fight misinformation ahead of the 2022 vote.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ian McNeely, a Maryland high school student who helped organize a walkout calling for better COVID safety measures at his school.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Taylor Lorenz about a troubling trend among some young social media users: the self-diagnosis of mental health issues.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is no longer contact tracing individual COVID-19 cases.

Imani Perry discusses what it meant to write a book about her own home, and why the South is so important to comprehend the rest of the nation.

A federal judge pushed back opening arguments to Feb. 3 in the former Alaska governor's case. A 2017 Times editorial wrongly connected an ad from her PAC to a lethal mass shooting in Arizona.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Joshua Yaffa, Moscow correspondent for the New Yorker, about a major climate change threat confronting Russia.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Christine Platt, author of The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living With Less, about how to declutter and why it's especially important for communities of color.

Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics tells us more about how prisons were affected early on in the pandemic. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with researcher Wendy Sawyer about the new data.