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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actor Michael Imperioli about his Broadway debut in An Enemy of the People and the relevance of this adaptation of the play, roughly 150 years after the original.

When he takes over, in the fall of 2027, he will be the youngest music director in the orchestra's 133-year history.

The actions range from campaign priorities like border security to culture war issues like DEI policies.

Heading into the end of the legislative session, consumer advocates, renewable energy industry groups and environmental advocates were hopeful about a bill that would have overhauled Illinois’ energy industry.

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The federal government is now ready to build it.

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's lighthouses and Buddhist grottoes in China are also in peril.

The death toll reported from an average tropical cyclone is 24. But the true toll is maybe 300 times higher—and the losses stretch for years after the storm passes.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about carnivorous squirrels, the history of life on Earth, and new insights into the relationship between people and dogs.

Inflation, rising food prices and the high cost of living have been top of mind for consumers all year. But then Olive Garden offers an unlimited pasta meal, or a chain steakhouse restaurant sells a steak dinner with two sides for less than 30 bucks. So, how are chains able to keep prices as low as they do in this economy?