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A local version of Spam. Smartphones, or two, for everyone. Amid escalating U.S.-North Korea tensions, former journalist Jean Lee visits Pyongyang and finds that, at least there, life has improved.

We visit a job market created by economists, for economists. It's a hyper-efficient, optimized system, tested by game theorists, tweaked by a Nobel Prize winner, but it requires comfortable shoes.

The country legend, who just celebrated her 85th birthday, fell ill Thursday night.

An "identity matrix" is a trap that presents itself as the answer to broad-brush generalizations about Muslims as terrorists or radicals, but actually ends up being similarly simplistic.

Our weekly education roundup: A big investigation into sexual assault in K-12 schools; achievement gaps persist in high school graduation rates.

Attorney Ryan Burt talks with NPR's Scott Simon about whether high-risk pools proposed in the House Republicans' health care plan, for people with pre-existing conditions, are enough to meet the need.

Harvard announced this week that they will no longer charge 50 cents a day for overdue books. Harvard's Steven Beardsley told The Harvard Crimson that overdue book fines are stressing students.

Jordan Edwards will be buried Saturday in Texas. The unarmed African-American teenager was killed by a Balch Springs police officer, who fired into a car driving away from a house party.

Our panelists predict after the Fyre Festival, what will be the next terrible thing we enjoy watching happen to rich people.

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