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Vaccines remain the best way to protect against serious illness. A week after the FDA gave full approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, it's not known if that's nudging more people to get the shot.

Poet Natalie Diaz — author of Postcolonial Love Poem, which was a finalist for the National Book Award — tells NPR's Michel Martin about some of the listener-submitted poems that caught her eye.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with writer Joanna Schroeder about how parents can spot and intervene when their kids are exposed to extremist content online, which is often used as a recruitment tool.

Homicides in many U.S. cities are up again this year after rising nearly 30% last year. We look at the impact of the spike in homicides and shootings on one family in Oakland, Calif.

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Linda Holmes has seen blog culture boom, bust and bounce right back. She says when you write or talk publicly about your personal life, people feel entitled to know how the story ends.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Craig Elston, who owns a barbershop in Buffalo, N.Y., who helped dozens of people find shelter in his shop during a blizzard.

With clothes cheaper than a latte, built for today's microtrends, Shein courts the same young women who launched the renaissance of thrifting and resale. Legal complaints about the company are many.

As graphic images from Gaza flood social media platforms, many people are claiming those images are fake, in the latest iteration of a disturbing trope.

Author and podcast host Amanda Montell says our brains are overloaded with a constant stream of information that stokes our innate tendency to believe conspiracy theories and mysticism.