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Analyzing an event by breaking it down into details might seem like a good way to predict the outcome, but social science research suggests that when most of us do it, we make worse predictions.

The 77-year-old was one of Bernard Madoff's first employees. He pleaded guilty three years ago to knowingly signing false documents, but has insisted that he thought the operation was legitimate.

Commentator Joe Davidson discusses a Texas court case that may redefine the limits of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Davidson says that poor wording leaves the 2nd Amendment open to misinterpretation. He says the amendment really applies to citizen militias, ie, the National Guard, not to individual gun owners.

New satellite images reveal that few Midwestern farmers are planting pollution-preventing "cover crops." In Maryland, though, farmers are doing it, thanks to hefty subsidies.

Celebrated author Mac Barnett is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and has a new, short book about writing for kids: "Make Believe." He talks with NPR's Elissa Nadworny about it.

The State Department's special envoy responsible for moving detainees out of Guantanamo Bay resigned this week. NPR's Eric Westervelt talks with Cliff Sloan about progress in closing the prison.

In the remote mountains of the Japanese island of Shikoku, an old woman makes soba noodles by hand from locally grown buckwheat. It's ancient technique that is adapting to modern times.

Inmates in the U.S. have a high rate of infection with chronic hepatitis C — up to 35 percent or more by some estimates. New drugs introduced this year can cure the disease quickly, but at a cost.

This has definitely been the summer of the burkini. Here's some background on the swimwear that's launched a worldwide debate.

On the January 7th edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss student movements sweeping the nation. Last year protests erupted on college campuses across the…

The influential sibling to North Korea's secretive leader has also met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill training program for physician assistants recruits veterans and gives them credit for their experience.