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The Army has deployed advisers to foreign military forces for decades. But it has been an ad hoc assignment with mixed success. Now the Army is forming brigades specifically trained to be advisers.

Congress returns this week for the first time since a shooter killed 17 people inside a Florida high school. Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA who has written extensively about gun regulations, joins NPR's Ailsa Chang to talk about various proposals to regulate access to guns — and what impact those policies could have on preventing mass shootings.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Buzzfeed News political reporter Dominic Holden about Monday's ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit saying that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans gender discrimination, also bans discrimination based on sexual orientation.

In his experimental new memoir, Matt Young conveys the chaos of his three deployments in Iraq. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Young "a frank, funny and mercilessly self-lacerating narrator."

NPR's Science Desk explores the strange world of insect biomimicry.

Envy is an unflattering, miserable emotion. It can prompt us to improve our lives — and also cause us to feel resentment, rage, and a desire for revenge.

Republican Casey Cagle says he will "kill" pending legislation to give Delta a tax exemption on jet fuel after the carrier said it was ending its discount for NRA members.

Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island about the fight in Somalia against the terrorist network al-Shabab. Reed just visited East Africa.

The tax reform law passed in December did repeal the Affordable Care Act's penalties for not having comprehensive health insurance. But the penalties are still in effect until 2019.

Fane Lozman's second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court could have far-reaching implications for freedom of speech.