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It's the end of the school year and NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with two teachers and a teacher coach about how the pandemic has impacted their school year.

Author Colm Toibin's latest tale moves back and forth across the Atlantic, from the town of Enniscorthy, Ireland, to bustling Brooklyn, N.Y.

"It is financially tough," says Robert Momberger of Big Time Diner in Mobile, Ala. "Bills still keep on coming. So it really hurts to shut down, but sometimes that's the best thing to do."

Climate change's impact on a South Carolina community can be told through the stories of a dying forest, a fisherman with no bait and a queen fighting to protect a way of life on ancestral land.

A "bomb cyclone" is intensifying severe winter weather for millions of people across the U.S. The system is expected to knock out power and disrupt holiday travel.

Some lawmakers are quietly considering proposals on gun control and wider tax breaks for the special session. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and other leaders have said that's unwelcome.

More women are joining their male peers among the ranks of oyster farmers. This could be because of growing marine science programs — and a desire to have a hands-on connection with the food system.

Critic-at-Large John Powers reviews two recent DVDs, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Lost in Translation.

The vice president visited a castle that was one of the last stops before enslaved people were transported across the Atlantic. "The horror of what happened here must always be remembered," she said.

Legislators representing Oregon's Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Caucus are happy with what they've achieved this legislative session, but they have no plans of slowing down in the remaining five-and-a-half weeks.