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Contrary to what you might see on TV, homicide, assault and rapes have decreased in big cities since the 1970s. Patrick Sharkey attributes the change, in part, to something that happened in the '90s.

Let's Move On.Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, has harsh words for President Trump — some of them we can't say on the radio. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Fox about his new book,

The artists of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories have made travel posters for distant planets, simulated Jupiter's churning atmosphere and translated satellite movements into sound.

Last year saw the highest number of deaths of United Nations peacekeepers since 1994. Former U.N. peacekeeper Conor Foley says "the line between peacekeeping and war-fighting is getting very blurred."

At the Coquito Masters, the competition is as stiff as the Puerto Rican cocktail. But this year, the contest has a bittersweet mission in preserving a culinary culture impacted by Hurricane Maria.

Hannah Fry is co-author of The Indisputable Existence Of Santa Claus, an application of mathematics to holiday quandaries like wrapping round presents, turkey roasting and one man's annual journey.

Following revelations from Mark Zuckerberg's testimony Tuesday and Wednesday, reporter Julia Angwin shares the ways Facebook and other companies collect data — and how to prevent them from doing so.

In her new book Magic and Loss, Virginia Heffernan makes the case for the Internet as art. Just look at Twitter, she says. "It's hard to think of a time when poetry was more powerful."

The Republican National Committee has released a letter outlining complaints and will ask presidential nominees not to participate in debates put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Senate debate over President Bush's nomination of Texas jurist Priscilla Owen to the federal bench enters its third day. In public, Republicans and Democrats are talking tough. But behind the scenes, a bipartisan group of centrists is trying to avoid a vote on banning the judicial filibuster.