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After Hurricane Katrina, 20,000 people faced difficulty getting government aid to rebuild, because they couldn't prove they owned their homes. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with University of Texas Law Professor Heather Way about how the same thing could happen after Hurricane Harvey.

19th Day of 2012 / 347 Remaining61 Days Until Spring BeginsSunrise:7:22Sunset:5:199 Hr 57 MinMoon Rise:4:03amMoon Set:1:57pmMoon’s Phase: 15 %The Next…

This week on Open Air, host David Latulippe has conversations with artistic director Warren Stewart of Magnificat, about upcoming concerts with oratorios…

What does it mean to exist in time or make art for the moment? In XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, Campbell McGrath explores this question with a poem for every year between 1900 and 2000.

Throughout Faithfull's 40-year career, change has been the only constant. She's collaborated with an impressively diverse and famous assortment of artists and trafficked in genres ranging from folk to jazz to rock to an early form of rap. Hear Faithfull perform live in concert from WXPN in Philadelphia, with opening act The Felice Brothers.

When Tammy Wynette died in 1998, she was known as the First Lady of Country Music. Her music expressed drama and, judging by Jimmy McDonough's new biography, there was no shortage of it in her own life. Read an excerpt from his book, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, here.

Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels borrows from the story of his older brother, who died of cancer. He told Fresh Air in 2018 that the book went through a rewrite after the 2016 election.

February 22 is the 53rd day of the year. There are 313 days remaining until the end of 2016.The sun rises at 6:50 am and the sun sets at 5:57 pm. Today we…

The city of New Orleans is on a first-name basis with Quint Davis, who has happily occupied a central role in the city's beloved Jazz and Heritage Festival since the very beginning.

Singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson leaves his folk-rock roots and goes country on the self-produced album Up Front and Down Low, his first full-length disc since Separate Ways. It's largely a collection of classic tunes and lesser-known gems from country greats.

President Trump ended a policy that sent thousands of children to government-run facilities away from their parents. Critics say he created new problems — the children held may be there indefinitely.

In the end, perhaps, the bar was set too high for the Saturday Night Live episode that was to follow an already baffling series of news events.