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How did a man who had been working as a patent clerk publish four groundbreaking papers about space, time, atoms and the strange nature of light -- all in one year? A look at Albert Einstein's unique intelligence.

Forty years ago, Democrat Lyndon Johnson defeated Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater in a presidential election that reshaped America's electoral landscape. Commentator and former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite recalls the election of 1964.

Forty years ago, the man responsible for D-Day visited Normandy with a television crew headed by Walter Cronkite. By then, Dwight D. Eisenhower had been hailed as a hero and elected president of the United States. Cronkite looks back on D-Day 60 years later and recalls his trip to Normandy with Eisenhower.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike died of lung cancer on Jan. 27. Fresh Air remembers the writer with archival interviews from 1988, 1989 and 1997.

During its four-year run on NPR, This I Believe engaged listeners in a discussion of the core beliefs that guide their daily lives. We heard from people of all walks of life — the very young and the very old, the famous and the previously unknown.

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.

Dunham says when she started writing HBO's Girls, she was drawn to characters with "a bit of a Zelda Fitzgerald lost, broken woman quality." Her new essay collection is called Not That Kind of Girl.

Citizens in Ruili are complaining about lengthy lockdowns and terrible conditions in quarantine centers. Others in China don't want to hear about it.

From biographies of NPR's founding mothers to suburban mothers raising owl babies, here are 10 books about the joys and heartaches of parenthood and what it means to be a mom, in all its intricacies.

Despite vaccines and other precautions, COVID-19 is still here. NPR's Daniel Estrin asks former White House COVID adviser Andy Slavitt what he thinks could change the pandemic's trajectory.