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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Harley Blakeman, CEO of Honest Jobs, about the surge of companies looking for employees, and how those often overlooked with criminal convictions can be the perfect fit.

Dozens of worshipers in Afghanistan died during Friday prayers, after their mosque was targeted by an Islamic State suicide bomber.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Yale Law School professor Stephen L. Carter about the movies that shaped his view of American democracy.

NPR's Scott Simon revisits a 2018 conversation with Maria Ressa who runs the Filipino investigative news site Rappler. Ressa was one of two journalists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Amor Towles about his latest novel, The Lincoln Highway. Set in 1954, it's about a teenager, his younger brother and a road trip that goes awry.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to director Fran Kranz about his movie, Mass, which centers on parents coping in the aftermath of a school shooting.

Things aren't looking too cheery for one cheerleading squad. NPR's Scott Simon talks to author Hayley Krischer about her new novel, The Falling Girls.

Oklahoma has some of the nation's loosest marijuana regulations. Rural utilities say the large greenhouses popping up across the state is straining water and electric infrastructure beyond capacity.

We remember Holly Serl, one of more than 700,000 Americans who have died from the coronavirus.

When author Behrouz Boochani was seeking asylum in Australia, he was held on an island of Papua New Guinea. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with him about the closure of Australia's refugee processing center.