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On this Martin Luther King Day, let's consider the 2014 Word of the Year from the American Dialect Society.Other groups around the world offer up their…

From the White House press secretary's comparison of Hitler and Syria's President Bashar Assad to Trump's chocolate cake and dropping a bomb in Afghanistan, it was a heck of a week.

The Next IdeaIn an age where anonymous opinions posted online often drown out civil discourse, the idea of people sitting down to share a meal and…

A new Michigan State University study finds pre-school teachers need better training in science and math.Researchers studied 67 Head Start classrooms for…

Scalia Speaks is an anthology of the late justice's speeches on everything from the arts, turkey hunting, games and sports, faith and judging — and even the "Italian view of the Irish."

Journalist, writer and musician James McBride discusses his collection of short stories, Five-Carat Soul, his first work of fiction since winning the 2013 National Book Award for The Good Lord Bird.

Canadian workers for the Blue Water Bridge went on strike this week.The 45 employees, who all work on the Canadian side of the bridge, are picketing due…

Trump's former 2016 presidential rivals Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham both said Friday they cannot support their party's de facto White House nominee.

From the Baltic states to Central Asia, plenty of former Soviet satellites have large populations of ethnic Russians — and more than a few of them are yearning to be free.

Irving's latest novel is Avenue of Mysteries. He tells NPR's Lynn Neary that he thinks about each book for a long time — and he doesn't start writing until he knows what the ending will be.