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Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.

The Trump administration placed a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds. Some people are not happy about it.

The crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried has been tried and convicted of orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history, but little has changed for people who lost billions when FTX collapsed.

What should happen to the remains of Black bodies of a cemetery paved over and forgotten on Staten Island? This graveyard has the remains of Benjamin Prine, an enslaved man who later became a patriot.

Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about what the U.S. staying in Venezuela for years might look like and the history of U.S. involvement in other countries.

It's shaping up to be a historic wildfire season in the Western U.S. In Oregon, more acres have already burned than any time in modern history. At least 10 wildland firefighters have also died.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: two great newsletters, FX's The Bear, and more.

Bill McKibben says solar is a "last chance for the climate." T. Kingfisher offers a dark retelling of Snow White. Nicholas Boggs tells James Baldwin's story. Plus new debut fiction.

Researchers work to grow grass that will offer the same level playing field for athletes at the various soccer venues that will be used during the 2026 FIFA World Cup