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The Pentagon is ending a controversial program to fund social science research. It's part of a shift from asking for academic advice toward building new weapons systems.

Martin, who's working on the long-awaited sixth volume of his series A Song of Ice and Fire, rarely gives interviews — but NPR's Scott Simon recently caught up with him onstage at an awards ceremony.

A House-passed bill to place specific limits on campaign donations is now dead in the Oregon Senate. As a result, it's unclear if lawmakers will proceed with asking voters to amend the state constitution to make it possible to impose limits.

The memoir is a window into the seemingly superhuman reporting, researching, writing and will-power that have led Caro's reinvention of the political biography. But when's the next LBJ book coming?

A holiday picnic in Grants Pass ended sadly on Decoration Day in 1919, the precursor of today’s Memorial Day.Thirteen-year-old Carl Whillock was at a…

On Friday, Daryl Morey tweeted: "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong." But he issued an apology after backlash from the Chinese Basketball Association and others.

As part of a restoration initiative to interweave Monticello's dynamic history, a new exhibit at Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate gives humanity to an enslaved woman who bore six of his children.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to close the country's main nuclear testing site in May. For more on what this signifies, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jean Lee of the Wilson Center.

Numerous accounts of cougar encounters sprinkled the pages of early Oregon newspapers.Also called mountain lions and sometimes panthers, the big cats were…

When Pollan decided to write about caffeine, he gave it up — cold turkey. "I just couldn't focus," he says. "I was irritable. I lost confidence." Caffeine reshapes the brain in surprising ways.