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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves.

A movement to take back Nevada land that some ranchers want for grazing has stopped federal workers from safeguarding public property, say groups that would prefer to see the area protected.

Fifteen years after she led the prosecution against O.J. Simpson in one of the most public trials of the century, Marcia Clark returns to the courtroom. But this time, it's to make her fiction debut as the writer of a new legal thriller novel, Guilt by Association..

The composer is the second from the New York music collective Bang on a Can to win the award with a choral work. Her oratorio explores the lives of coal miners and their families a century ago.

With eyes clear and nerves jangled, Isbell wrestles with unpleasant social and political realities on his sixth studio album.

President Biden's plan to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt will help millions – but it's also raising concerns about inflation, economic fairness and college tuition costs.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to the ranch-hand turned songwriter. He comes from a long line of Wyoming homesteaders and studied agroecology before becoming a country singer.

The House actor worked with Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John and other New Orleans greats on his debut album, Let Them Talk.

Through the centuries, old songs known as the Child ballads have been passed down and tweaked to fit the times. More recently, they've been adapted by the folk revivalists of the 1950s and rockers from the '60s and '70s. Now, a duo of young songwriters is reviving them yet again.

Nobody could accuse composer Gunther Schuller of slacking off. He played principal French horn in the Cincinnati Symphony as a teenager, collaborated with Miles Davis and developed a new classical-jazz hybrid. And at 83, he's still composing.