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Amid resumed evacuations following Thursday's deadly bombing outside the Kabul airport, NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ali Lafiti of Al Jazeera English about the latest developmens in Afghanistan.

Jo Hamya discusses her debut novel, Three Rooms, the story of a young woman navigating housing, privilege and early adulthood in England amid news of Brexit and a surge of nationalism.

With just days to go before the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan, a look at how the 20 year old war began and ended - with the militant Taliban in power, and terrorist suicide attacks.

Thousands of activists are in Washington today for a march calling for federal action to protect voting rights. Bills in Congress are stalled as GOP-led states enact voting restrictions.

While reluctant to criticise President Biden directly, many Europeans are critical of the way his administration has handled the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan.

Ramona Gonzalez, who performs as Nite Jewel, discusses how her musicology research on women's lament practices influenced her new album, No Sun.

We look at the latest inflation numbers — which are high and rising — and how the federal government plans to respond to those figures.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Calvin Kasulke about his novel, Several People are Typing, in which a man inadvertently uploads his consciousness into a Slack channel and gets stuck inside the app.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, about inequities in global vaccine access.

As cinemas struggle with the ascent of streaming and concurrent digital releases, movie studios gathered in Las Vegas to show-off their splashiest fall films and encourage movie theater owners.