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President Trump Set To Meet China President For The First Time This Year

President Trump and Xi Jinping will meet for the first time this year at the G20 Summit. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former Ambassador Max Baucus about the political and economic stakes at play.

Russia, Ukraine And The U.S.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland about Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

Brokton Harris reads a booked called "How to Behave and Why" in this childhood photo.

What Learning Looks Like: Decoding Social Cues On The Autism Spectrum

What new research out of San Diego State tells us about autism, and social blunders in general.

Google Tweaks Email Program That Assumed An Investor Was Male

When Google saw that one of its predictive text technologies assumed someone's gender based on occupation, it blocked the technology from using all gender-based pronouns.

Volunteers search a mobile home park in Paradise, Calif. Government scientists predict wildfires like the one that struck this community will contribute to billions in loses for the U.S. economy.

New U.S. Climate Assessment Forecasts Dire Effects On Economy, Health

The Trump administration released a major climate assessment on Black Friday. It is the most detailed and blunt assessment yet of the dangers of unchecked global warming.

On a marked-up 2018 sample ballot from Chenango County, N.Y., illustrated index fingers point toward each candidate and tiny unfamiliar emblems represent each party — an eagle for Republicans, for example. One design expert calls these elements seriously antiquated.

Why Are So Many Election Ballots Confusing?

Poor ballot design can confuse voters and slow down election results. What makes a well-designed ballot and why are they so hard to come by?

'Death And Other Holidays' Is A Perfect Literary Break

Marci Vogel's new novella spans a year in the life of April, a young woman blindsided by loss. It's the perfect length for a story, and the perfect balance of humor, anger, sorrow and beauty.

Kim Schrier is one of a number of Democratic House candidates who backed stronger gun regulations and flipped Republican-controlled seats in last week's midterm elections.

A Third Rail No More: Incoming House Democrats Embrace Gun Control

Dozens of Democratic candidates who ran in competitive suburban House districts this election year bluntly called out the need for more gun control. And many of them won.

Discussing his plan to roll back part of the Constitution, President Trump says: "They're saying I can do it just with an executive order."

Trump Says He Will Void Birthright Citizenship Law Through Executive Order

"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't," Trump said in a recent interview. House Speaker Paul Ryan disagreed: "Well, you obviously cannot do that."

Tony Evers, Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, faced a primary opponent who was further left and does not take up all the far-reaching policy positions of Bernie Sanders. But he has embraced the progressive banner, and Sanders has his back in a campaign to unseat GOP Gov. Scott Walker.

As More Democrats Embrace 'Progressive' Label, It May Not Mean What It Used To

More Democratic candidates who call themselves progressive entered the ring in 2018 than in the past several campaigns, but they're not all running on the full Bernie Sanders agenda.

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