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  • Trump's tariffs are showing up in Americans' receipts
    Small businesses are scrambling to figure out the cost of tariffs. Most are passing on some of the cost to American customers.
  • Growing demand for more fuel-efficient cars and trucks, like these 2009 Dodge Journey crossover vehicles, has helped drive down gasoline consumption in the U.S.
    What's Making Americans Less Thirsty For Gasoline?
    The price of gas keeps rising for Americans, but it's not because of rising demand from consumers. In fact, demand has fallen since 2007. Consumers' craving for hybrids and aversion to paying more at the pump are only part of the story.
  • Survey: Americans Are Grumpy About Economic Recovery
    A new survey by Rutgers University found two out of three Americans felt no improvement in the last year. And only about one in four expect things to get better in the year to come.
  • Gas prices are down compared with last year, but slumping consumer confidence could dampen Thanksgiving holiday travel.
    Many Americans Will Be Giving Thanks For Lower Prices
    Travelers will find gasoline prices are down considerably from last Thanksgiving. But consumer confidence is slumping too. So AAA, the auto club, says it expects to see a dip in holiday travel, compared with 2012.
  • Recalling an American Riot on V-J Day
    Robert Siegel talks with Charles Fracchia, founder of the San Francisco Historical Society and author of City By the Bay: A History of San Francisco 1945 to the Present, about deadly riots that took place in San Francisco on VJ Day.
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel <em>Half of a Yellow Sun,</em> one of the films to premiere in Toronto this year, is part of a new wave of films with roots in Britain about the black experience.
    British Filmmakers Shift American 'Conversation On Race'
    Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave was one of several films premiering at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Black British filmmaking is on the rise.
  • American West Paintings Bringing in Top Dollar
    Record prices are being paid for landscape paintings of the American West. Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center went to the Couer d'Alene Art Auction in Reno, Nev., and found serious buyers bidding into the hundreds of thousands or more, to own a Frederick Remington or a Charlie Russell or a Frank McCarthy.
  • Rochelle Jake, 45, says she thought the Indian Health Service should be responsible for her health care, not Obamacare.
    Spreading The Word: Obamacare Is For Native Americans, Too
    Many Native Americans rely entirely on free care from the financially strapped Indian Health Service. Advocates say signing up for coverage under the Affordable Care Act can broaden their choices.
  • Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to rally against the National Security Agency's recently detailed surveillance programs.
    Privacy Past And Present: A Saga Of American Ambivalence
    American privacy concerns go back as far as the country's origins. Today, in the wake of major revelations about the scope of the National Security Agency's surveillance, polls show that feelings are still mixed.
  • Muslim Artists Struggle To Connect With American Audiences
    NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with McClatchy national correspondent Hannah Allam about how Muslim artists are frustrated over how Muslims are portrayed in American media.
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