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Through tips, maps, and satellite photos, Window Seat, a new "travel guide" for frequent flyers, helps decipher the North American landscape from 35,000 feet in the air - the perspective from your airplane seat. NPR's Andrea Seabrook speaks to author Gregory Dicum.

As he nears the end of his 3,000-mile journey across China, on the western side of the Gobi Desert, NPR's Gifford finds the last thing he would expect -- a bowling alley, the sign of a new middle class.

In 480 B.C., a powerful Persian armada attacked the Greek navy at Salamis, an island off Athens. In his book The Battle of Salamis, historian Barry Strauss makes a case that the Greeks' surprising victory assured the survival of Western civilization. He talks to NPR's Brian Naylor.

Famed photographer Walker Evans shot dozens of Depression-era images of New York subway passengers. They're collected in a newly reissued book, Many Are Called. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and book contributor Jeff Rosenheim.

Sergio Amezcua is a faith leader from Minnesota who voted for President Trump in 2024.

Los Angeles will host the Summer Olympics in 2028. LA will try to do something extraordinary: host the games without going into crushing debt.

Dooney Da' Priest's rap song "Pull Your Pants Up" is meant to shame young men in Dallas from wearing saggy britches because the style makes them look like they're gay.

The Louisiana Legislature has proclaimed the Sazerac — a potent mix of rye whiskey, bitters and absinthe — New Orleans' official cocktail. A local bar chef explains the appeal and shares the secret to making the iconic drink.

Lenders and investors whose poor decisions helped foster the current deepening mortgage crisis in America should not expect all their mistakes to be absolved by the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke said. But the Fed chairman said the central bank will act to limit the fallout from the credit debacle.

Iranian news editor and Tehran resident Ali Safari describes what daily life is like for people living in Iran.