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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, about drug companies holding patents on medications for much longer than they're supposed to.

China is making changes to the global infrastructure initiative after some initial stumbles in its first decade — and it's now in direct competition with the U.S.

Voters in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky signaled support for abortion rights, even where it wasn't directly on the ballot, more than a year after the Supreme Court rolled them back.

An unlikely friendship began between a Gaza woman in grief and the Irish graffiti artist and activist who painted her as a mural in Dublin.

The biopic Bob Marley: One Love stars Kingsley Ben Adir as the Jamaican singer/songwriter who became the world's most celebrated reggae musician.

In 2023, unions added 139,000 members, but the share of the U.S. workforce that's unionized declined from the year before due to even faster growth in nonunion jobs.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Elise Pepple, the host of Marfa for Beginners, a podcast that tells the story of daily life in that romantic west Texas art town.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Chris Marsicano of Davidson College in North Carolina about how higher education institutions might go about divesting from Israeli interests, as demanded by protesters.

The University of California has rejected a proposal that would've allowed undocumented students to be hired for jobs within the university system. Its Board of Regents said there were too many risks.

The community of Jacumba, in California, has been overwhelmed with migrant encampments — as many as a thousand people in dire humanitarian conditions. A few weeks ago, locals say, something changed.