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Shadi Hamid, author of Islamic Exceptionalism, argues many Muslims support a religious-dominated government, but that doesn't equal violence. Steve Inskeep talks to Hamid about Islam and democracy.

A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday. Rachel Martin talks with Daniel Fried, a former senior career U.S. diplomat, about the rising tensions between Russia and the U.S. over Syria.

Sherman Alexie has often turned to his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation for inspiration. Now, he looks at the life of his mother in a memoir called You Don't Have to Say You Love Me.

On the Senate floor Monday night, Democrats railed against secretive effort by Republicans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Rachel Martin talks to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The story of young American student Otto Warmbier, who was detained in North Korea, has come to a tragic end. Russia issues a warning after the U.S. shot down a Syrian warplane over the weekend.

The census director said "there was no federal data need" to collect sexual orientation and gender identity data. But documents show the Housing Department and other agencies requested it.

Over the years, the president has had an up-and-down relationship with big commercial lenders. But while in the Oval Office, he could find himself in a conflict of interest with any amount of debt.

Theodora Goss's novel takes bits and pieces from several different monstrous mythologies — Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Moreau and more — but she makes something new and deceptively intricate out of them.

We live in a world of endless pressing concerns with so many competing avenues of being productive. A good game makes no demands. All that matters is the enjoyment of the doing, says Adam Frank.

Across the U.S., locals are hosting meals designed to help the community meet the refugees who live among them as neighbors, and to break barriers by breaking bread together.