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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sentor Thom Tillis and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, leaders of the bipartisan congressional delegation to NATO in Madrid, Spain.

Rafael Agustin's parents were physicians in Ecuador, but when they came to the U.S. they worked at a car wash and Kmart to get by. It wasn't until he was a teen that he learned they were undocumented.

Ron Hansen's ethereal novel tells the intertwined story of the Victorian poet, Gerard Manly Hopkins, and the sea tragedy that inspired Hopkins' famous poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland.

Librarian Nancy Pearl shares the work of a few of her best-loved poets. They include a former nun who wrote about Marilyn Monroe, a man who was left paralyzed after a bicycle accident, and writers who — despite the sometimes rigid requirements of their chosen form — find surprising, inventive ways to use words.

Mental health advocates hope the new hotline will make it easier to get support if you're in crisis or helping someone who is. Here's how it works and what could stand in its way.

A number of crises have taken a toll on the country's already-precarious public education system. Now, The Chispa Project is trying to change that, one book at a time.

Absentee ballots are already on their way out to voters in Wisconsin, one of the most closely watched states in this year's midterm elections.

Ayesha Rascoe and Scott Horsley speak with economist Austan Goolsbee about what's driving inflation and why so many economic forecasts have been wrong.

The World Health Organization and the U.S. have declared monkeypox a public health emergency. From how it spreads to preventive measures, here's what you need to know about the disease.

There is an oil rush in North Dakota right now. The state is pumping out 10 times the crude oil it did a decade ago. Fortunes are being made, and once-sleepy towns are now bursting at the seams.