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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.

For lawmakers, the debate over these programs is mostly a partisan fight over parental freedom versus accountability. But many families say the issue is far more personal.

A rundown on some of the Democratic VP candidate’s important economic policy decisions.

When a group of startups set out to solve an age-old problem with new technology, they met unexpected resistance from conservationists who saw the idea as misguided at best — and dangerous at worst.

The procedure to give people with single eyelids a crease above their lashes often provokes controversy. NPR's Kat Chow steps past the debate over whether people should do it to get at the why.

Thousands of pages of secret military reports obtained by The New York Times and shared with NPR put a name, a history and a face on some of the hundreds of men held at the detention camp.

From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.