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The unemployment rate is at record lows — but maybe the unemployment rate doesn't mean what it used to.

Following the Supreme Court decision declaring federal courts have no role in reining in partisan redistricting, will Democrats choose to adopt the same aggressive redistricting tactics as the GOP?

Benton Harbor, Mich., has been fighting to save its high school. The state proposed shutting it down because of poor performance and rising district debts. The resulting fight has been bitter.

On Tuesday, parts of South American will experience a total solar eclipse. The path of totality passes over one the world's premier observatories located in Chile.

Alabama residents are reporting sights of massive yellow jacket nests that can house thousands of wasps and can be several feet long.

The District of Columbia is leading the way on a new program in which young offenders get a second chance. It's difficult, but authorities say it's worth it.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Norma Torres of California, who was one of several lawmakers who toured immigration facilities on Monday. NPR's Franco Ordoñez weighs in on the topic.

Bruce Holsinger's new novel — about overprivileged parents cheating to get their kids into a magnet school — is very topical, but the characters are too flat to hook readers' attention for long.

Horror writer Paul Tremblay's new short story collection is full of ghosts, monsters, nightmares and apocalypses — all of which feel so close by they might be happening to you, right now.

This week's mix features drone music performed on a pipe organ, ridiculously over-the-top metal from Japan, a wild avant-pop collaboration between Nels Cline and Cibo Matto's Yuka C. Honda and more.