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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with actress Maggie Gyllenhaal about her directorial debut The Lost Daughter, which takes a unique look at motherhood. Now in theaters, the film will be on Netflix on Dec. 31.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about the new folk music album, Playing for the Man at the Door.

Cutting kids' meat or doing their laundry can undermine their sense of self-worth, two books argue.

One of the most influential writers to emerge during the civil rights era, Baldwin, who died in 1987, spoke to Terry Gross in 1986 about growing up in Harlem and his decision to move to France.

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with author Anne Lamott about ways to begin the new year on a positive and hopeful note.

The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Cold War-era test was a staple of school gyms for half a century before the Obama administration replaced it. Trump says his focus on childhood fitness is for both physical and patriotic reasons.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Iraqi-American photojournalist Salwan Georges about his trip back to a war-torn Iraq for the first-time since he and his family fled in 1998.

President Bush is on his way to Asia, where he will visit Japan, South Korea, China and Mongolia. All Things Considered producer Charlie Mayer, who is spending a year in Mongolia, says that when the president gets there he might find that it feels a little familiar. Mongolia, Mayer notes, is the Texas of Asia.

Col. Gary Anderson argues that the United States has to stay the course in Iraq. He says that leaving now would "dishonor" the Iraqis. Every eligible man in Anderson's family is fighting in or about to be deployed in Iraq.