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By by 1920, the British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass. Historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain control.

After pressuring elite universities, the Trump administration is now focusing on George Mason. Education reporter Katherine Mangan discusses why GMU's president says it's a backlash to DEI efforts.

J&J recently lost a bid to settle lawsuits that claimed its talc powder products, including baby powder, caused cancer. Author Gardiner Harris says the company's defense "is beginning to crumble."

Bloomberg journalist Katrina Manson discusses the Pentagon's secretive campaign to build America's AI warfare capabilities and the obsessive Marine colonel behind it. Her new book is Project Maven.

Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens his new memoir, Coming Up Short, with an apology on behalf of the Baby Boom generation for failing to build a more just society.

Amy Sherald, Jeff Koons, Shepard Fairey and Rashid Johnson are among the visual artists who have donated works for an auction that will raise money for the Harris Victory Fund.

NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and known as the Western Hemisphere's newest dictatorship.

As part of covering climate change we've heard from a number of the doers. Here are a few of those innovators and influencers' thoughts and what motivated them to make a change in their communities.

NPR visits one West Bank town where Israelis are grazing sheep, in a place where a Palestinian school once stood.

Writer James Baldwin is remembered by his family, a scholar, a journalist and a playwright on his 100th birthday.