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Workers shrink-wrap products at the Sertoma Centre outside Chicago. Sertoma provides employment opportunities to about 250 people with disabilities through subcontracting jobs.

Subminimum Wages For The Disabled: Godsend Or Exploitation?

Activists say a federal law that allows employers to pay people with disabilities pennies per hour is out of date and should be changed. But some say the law is a lifeline for the disabled.

Baritone Franco Pomponi is Richard Nixon, soprano Maria Kanyova is Pat Nixon and baritone Chen-ye Yuan is Chou En-Lai in San Diego Opera's NIXON IN CHINA. March, 2015.

'Nixon In China' And Why Modern Opera Can Be Scary And Exciting

San Diego Opera production highlights Nixon's 1972 trip to China as inpiration

Dangerous Freedoms And Fading Memories In 'Find Me'

Imagine a future where an epidemic that erases memories (and eventually kills) takes over the country: That's the setting for the first novel from celebrated short story writer Laura Van Den Berg.

Napolitano Says UC Tuition Hikes Won't Affect Neediest Californians

In an interview with KPBS, University of California President Janet Napolitano talked about enrollment caps, UC funding and her National Peacemaker Award.

The inmates of Rebibbia prison in Rome prepare for Caesar's final day in "Cesare deve morire"

Review: 'Caesar Must Die'

Just In Time For The Ides of March, A New Take On An Old Tale

Kaitlin Foran, a senior at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, meets with a prospective employer at a job fair at National Harbor in Maryland.

Job Outlook Brightens For Graduates, Though Problems Linger

The Class of 2014 is coming into a labor market that now offers a record number of jobs. But May's employment report also shows 9.8 million people remain out of work, and the jobless rate is stuck.

Son Little's new song "The River" is a favorite on WFUV.

Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

From our panel of public-radio hosts to you: a hand-picked sampler of free downloads, including new music from Son Little, Ty Segall, Rome Fortune, Kaytranada, Allo Darlin' and more.

Hospitals Can Speed Stroke Treatment, But It's Not Easy

The faster people get treatment after suffering a stroke, the less likely they are to be permanently disabled or die. Speeding up hospital procedures helps, studies find. But cost is an issue, too.

San Diego Opera kicks off its 2014 season with "Pagliacci."

San Diego Opera Board Still Making Plans To Close

Members of the San Diego Opera board decided Friday to stick to a plan to end operations on April 29, but some will serve on a committee to possibly take the company in a new direction.

If the Democrats do win Pennsylvania, it won't be because they had their convention in Philadelphia, which is already a mother lode of Democratic votes. And if the Republicans wind up winning Ohio, it won't be because they won over a lot of precincts in Cleveland, which is a similarly rich trove of Democratic support in elections at all levels.

Why Convention Sites Don't Make Very Good Swing State Strategy

The idea that convention cities are decided with an eye toward winning the host city's state is popular to the point of being irresistible. But it doesn't fare well against the facts.

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