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Native American inmates say the powwows give them a sense of community and spiritual growth. Prison officials say the powwows help rehabilitation and are an important motivational and behavioral tool.

The electronic musician's new memoir traces his journey from Connecticut suburbs to New York City raves. It's a tale of dance clubs, DJs and Manhattan in the 1990s full of self-deprecating humor.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Michael Wara, who directs a climate and energy policy program at Stanford, about the financial calculus insurers are doing as the threat of climate-fueled disasters grows.

When President Bush delivers his inaugural address Thursday, he will contribute to a relatively rare genre: the second inaugural. We look back at memorable speeches the second time around for Presidents Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Nixon.

A new documentary tracks a 30-year battle over land use in Austin, Texas. The Unforseen focuses on a real-estate development project threatening a spring-fed swimming area. Robert Redford and Terrence Malick are the film's executive producers.

For many, the alligator is the face of the Florida Everglades. But the reptiles are shrinking in size and population, a signal that the watershed might not be doing as well as it should.

The bottom base of some Green Sprouts products can break off, exposing a solder dot that contains the toxic metal, a federal regulator said. No injuries have been reported from such incidents.

It rained in California this week. That might not sound like news, but the state is experiencing a record-setting drought. Jason Heller turns to science fiction to reflect on the strange weather.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard about his new book, The Morning Star, his first novel since publishing his six-volume autobiographical series.

Like New Orleans, San Francisco suffered mass destruction from a natural disaster when the great earthquake of 1906 left much of the city in ruins. Today, some experts worry that history may repeat itself should a major quake occur along the Hayward Fault, which runs beneath some of the Bay Area's most populated regions.