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Blues Song Is a Decades-Long Music Lesson

As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians in different decades of the 20th century. The older musicians are teaching the younger musicians through the song "Sitting on Top of the World." We hear the song as recorded by Al Jolson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Monroe and The Grateful Dead.

'The Netanyahus' Turns The Campus Novel Into A Sly Fable About History And Identity

Joshua Cohen offers a fictionalized version of a real-life campus visit by the father of the former Israeli prime minister. The novel offers a funny take on serious things.

Wyverne Flatt, who is fighting to keep his pot-bellied pig Ellie as an emotional support animal, poses for a photograph at his home in Canajoharie, N.Y.

A man in upstate New York is fighting to keep his emotional support pig

Wyverne Flatt says his 110-pound potbellied pig Ellie is "family." Officials in his village of Canajoharie see it very differently. To them, the pig is a farm animal Flatt is harboring illegally.

RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse charged in the death of a patient, listens to the opening statements during her trial in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

In nurse's trial, witness says hospital bears 'heavy' responsibility for patient death

Nashville, Tenn., nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial for reckless homicide for giving the wrong medication to a patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week over President Obama's health care overhaul.

In Health Case, Combustible Mix Of Politics And Law

Call it what you will — the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare — the historic law and its insurance requirement signed by the president in March 2010 has spawned heated political debates, multimillion-dollar special interest advertising campaigns and a slew of lawsuits with mixed outcomes.

'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy

Steve Inskeep talks to Jeffrey Goldberg, who dives deep into President Obama's eight years in a cover story for The Atlantic magazine.

"Smoking, you stink," reads a cigarette package in Spanish that was used in an anti-smoking campaign in Uruguay.

Scaring People Can Make Them Healthier, But It Isn't Always The Way To Go

Fear campaigns can motivate people to quit smoking or eat less. But fearmongering can go too far. When is scaring for health's sake acceptable, and when is it distasteful?

It's Electric: Novel Re-Creates Charged Rivalry Between Edison And Westinghouse

In the 1880s, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battled over control of America's nascent electrical system. Graham Moore tells their story in The Last Days of Night.

Activists and demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health.

21 states poised to ban or severely restrict abortion if 'Roe v. Wade' is overturned

So-called "trigger laws" in 12 states would automatically enact an abortion ban if Roe is overturned. In nine others, bans that were blocked by courts or have long been unenforced could take effect.

Richard B. Hays is the co-author of The Widening of God’s Mercy.

His work was used to exclude LGBTQ people from the church. Now he argues the opposite

Prominent Christian theologian Richard B. Hays' work was often cited as a reason for not allowing same-sex relationships in Christian churches. In a new book, The Widening of God's Mercy, co-written with his son Chris Hays, he reverses course, and cites Biblical support for allowing LGBTQ relationships in Christianity.

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