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The tension between private thoughts and public personae, in a culture that forces consent to being constantly watched, feels like the guiding narrative of Yves Tumor's sonic and visual world.

Yves Tumor's disruptive pop-cultural synthesis

Rather than proclaiming the present sick on their fifth record, the sensitive Tennessean glam-punk wraps themselves up in its language — pop music.

Jack Daniel's v. poop-themed dog toy in a trademark case at the Supreme Court

At Wednesday's argument, the justices struggled to reconcile their own previous decisions enforcing the nation's trademark laws and what some of them saw as a potential threat to free speech.

Jack Daniel's tells Supreme Court its brand is harmed by dog toy Bad Spaniels

The whiskey maker argues that the toy named Bad Spaniel infringes on its trademark, confuses consumers and tarnishes its reputation.

A sign attached to a fence reads "Notice: No loitering." Downtown San Diego, Calif. March 17, 2023.

New ordinance would ban homeless encampments on San Diego streets

A San Diego city councilmember is proposing a new ordinance banning people from camping on San Diego streets.

Jim Gordon, a famed session drummer who was convicted of killing his mother, dies

Jim Gordon, the famed session drummer who backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his mother, has died. He was 77.

<em>The Onion</em> head writer Mike Gillis submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court this week. He says he hopes it will convince the court to take up an Ohio man's First Amendment case while educating the broader public.

The man who wrote the Onion's Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously

The satirical site submitted a 23-page brief to the Supreme Court in support of a First Amendment case. Mike Gillis, The Onion writer who authored the brief, tells NPR why parody is worth defending.

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

The Onion advises the Supreme Court's 'total Latin dorks' on parody

The humor site filed a brief to the court supporting a man arrested for making fun of police in social media posts, including a jobs announcement "strongly encouraging minorities to not apply."

A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the Indigenous communities that originally inhabited the space where the event is taking place. Above, a high-resolution topographic image released by NASA in 2003.

So you began your event with an Indigenous land acknowledgment. Now what?

Statements recognizing Indigenous rights to territories seized by colonial powers may be well-meaning. But some Indigenous leaders fear these acknowledgments may become routine and performative.

More than two decades after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the five men accused have still not gone to trial, and four presidential administrations have wrestled with the Guantánamo problem.

A year after plea talks began, the 9/11 case is still in limbo, frustrating families

Settlement talks began a year ago in the 9/11 terrorism case. But little progress has been made, dragging out the future of the problem-plagued U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Looking from Mexico into the United States through the border fence onto the American part of the 29th annual La Posada Sin Fronteras or Without Borders. The event takes place on both sides of the binational park called Friendship Park. The park is facing possible closure as the Biden administration contemplates building an addition to the already existing border wall, first proposed by the Trump administration. If completed the addition would effectively close the American half of the park. Tijuana, Dec. 10, 2022.

Plunge in border crossings could blunt GOP attack on Biden

A sharp drop in illegal border crossings since December may be blunting a Republican point of attack against President Joe Biden as the Democratic leader moves to reshape a broken asylum system that has dogged him and his predecessors.

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