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What do Wikipedia and Craigslist have in common with the Tea Party movement? They succeed by being decentralized, says Rod Beckstrom, co-author of the management book The Starfish and the Spider.

“Dancing in the Street,” written by Mickey Stevenson, Ivy Jo Hunter and Marvin Gaye, and recorded in two takes, less than 10 minutes, by Martha Reeves.…

Louisiana is not the only state where levees are overdue for repairs. Kansas City, St. Louis and other major cities are now worried that New Orleans will siphon the Army Corps of Engineers' resources.

Patricia Polacco has written and illustrated more than 90 picture books, and she says her early life had a profound effect on her work. In her latest children's book, The Blessing Cup, Polacco takes readers back to her grandparents' time in Russia.

Dozens of objections to Detroit's bankruptcy filed yesterdayYesterday was the deadline for creditors to file objections to the city of Detroit’s request…

Entire towns and villages have disappeared from the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh at the tip of Sumatra, one of the hardest-hit areas of last week's earthquake and tsunami. Estimates of the number of dead continue to rise, and countless thousands of survivors are in desperate need of food, medicine and potable water. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

For the first time in nearly five years, the city of Pontiac is not under emergency management.Emergency manager Lou Schimmel resigned Monday, saying the…

Brazilian oil company Petrobras officially opens its latest deep-water oil platform. The new rig is expected to end decades of Brazilian dependence on foreign oil, and protect the country's economy from oil-price shocks.

The city's emergency manager is no more. Lou Schimmel issued his last orders this week.But that doesn't mean the state is done overseeing the city.Now a…

This is the first in a two-part series. Click here to hear part two.Fifteen people from Michigan have died from fungal meningitis, more than in any other…