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Lewis Hamilton has a new team, a new outlook and a new hope. Led by the sport's most successful driver, Formula 1's closest season in recent history starts on Sunday at the Australian Grand Prix.

A major expansion of the child tax credit during the height of the COVID pandemic temporarily slashed the child poverty rate in half. That is one reason why it has become a hot topic in the presidential race.

Certain aspects of China today are without historical precedent, but some lessons do arise from Japan's and America's own imperial pasts, write historians Alexis Dudden and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

President Trump says he isn't ruling out the possibility of seeking a 3rd term in office. And, an executive order targets the Smithsonian Institution to restore "sanity to American history."

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

NPR's history show, Throughline, takes us back to 1969 and the creation of the children's TV show Sesame Street.

The questioning of Gerry Adams arises partly from interviews conducted in academic research for Boston College. Harvard law professor Noah Feldman explains rights of disclosure in academic archives.

Michigan voters critical of Biden's support of Israel call on people to vote "uncommitted" in the state's primary. An Oxford scholar explains the history of self-immolation as political protest.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to museum director Ebony Howard about a new exhibit in Harpersville, Ala., that explores the lives of several Black families after emancipation.