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Atlanta's hip-hop scene is booming with new music from well-known acts like Migos and Lil Yachty. But there's a long list of up-and-comers bringing fresh sounds to the city.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for March 16, 2021, we look at bills being debated by the state legislature this week, speak with NPR Paris Correspondent and South Carolina native Eleanor Beardsley about life during lockdown in the European Union, and learn why COVID-19 testing remains important even with vaccines available.

Writer John Hodgman expounds on a variety of fascinating and sublimely ridiculous subjects — historical, literary and hobo — in his book The Areas of My Expertise.

The creation of the electronic spreadsheet transformed industries. But its effects ran deeper than that.

A high school with students who will graduate at age 20 -- after sharing classrooms with confirmed trouble-makers -- in inner city Detroit would seem to be a recipe for academic disaster. But one high school is beating the odds, and even attracings students to apply or transfer.

In his new book, The K Street Gang, author Matthew Continetti traces the roots of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. In Continetti's telling, the scandal is the result of a GOP reform movement that became a racket.

From the thousands of musicians that will converge on the capital city of Texas for the 2019 SXSW Music Festival, NPR Music has hand-picked a hundred highlights.

Lately, there have been so many big technology acquisitions in the headlines that it's hard to keep them straight. Check out our visualization of the most notable tech takeovers of recent years.

In 2021, burnt out from the intensity of her early career, Rogers took a detour to Harvard Divinity School. Wiig plays a former pageant queen who wants to break into high society in Palm Royale.

Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras offers a playlist of music that's comforting him and his listeners amid the coronavirus pandemic.