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Indonesia, the world's fourth most populated nation, is overwhelmed by the pandemic. Critics of the government say it failed to take the virus seriously and kept the country open while it spread.

NPR's Debbie Elliot talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about allegations that the New York Mets Organization has a toxic workplace and retired Yankee Alex Rodriguez's basketball team plans.

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, competing with large apex predators.

A new project highlights music recorded in american prisons - some of it surprisingly light and catchy.

Ronny Chieng finds America amazing, sometimes appalling, and often very funny. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about his new Netflix special Asian Comedian Destroys America!

If Democrats pick up both seats in Tuesday's Georgia runoff elections, they will wrest control of the U.S. Senate from Republicans. If Republicans win one, though, they will retain it.

The author of the new memoir, Sigh, Gone, fled Saigon with his family in 1975, and faced rejection and bullying in the Pennsylvania town where he grew up.

Roya Hakakian was a teenager when she came to the United States from Iran. she says she hopes her book will help native-born Americans see all the small signs of democracy they don't usually notice.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced us to move almost everything online. But more than one-third of the U.S. population in rural areas has little or no access to the Internet.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer has an idea for reopening the country that balances health concerns with the need to conduct business. NPR's David Greene talks to Romer about his plan.