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Elderly inmates make up an increasing percentage of the U.S. prison population. Many are serving life sentences. Others are in prison for crimes committed late in life. The oldest male prisoner in the country is 99 years old. The fourth-oldest prisoner is John Rodriguez.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche about their new album Cruel Country, and about writing songs with uncomfortable truths.

The World Health Organization has issued an alert about the deaths in the West African nation of Gambia. For context, we speak to the authors of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India.

In Grand Island, Neb., the school district eliminated a high school journalism program after students published an issue of the school paper with op-eds about LGBTQ rights. Now the ACLU is involved.

Bureaucracy and mammoth student loans weren't part of becoming a doctor for Michael Sawyer's father and grandfather. Still, like them, he feels medicine is a calling. A fourth generation of Sawyers is thinking about whether to carry on the tradition.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Samaria Rice and Princess Blanding. Rice and Blanding both lost their loved ones in deadly police interactions several years ago.

FX's limited series revival Justified: City Primeval offers the nostalgic return of a beloved character. But that alone isn't enough. We take a look back at reboots that worked, and those that didn't.

Darrell Crouch has won plenty as Washington High School’s head football coach. Yet, the true measure of Crouch is not how much he’s won, but how he responded in a time of loss.

Singer Shirley Collins has been called the first lady of English folk music. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with her about her new album, Heart's Ease.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Aluna about her new album, MYCELiUM, which she says was inspired by nature and anti-racist activism.