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Melissa Block talks with MIT graduate student Amal Dorai about the time traveler convention he's planning for this coming Saturday. Dorai hopes that news of his event will induce future generations to come back and join the celebration.

Alarmed by what it sees as China's economic coercion and the declining competitiveness of its own firms, Japan is enacting a raft of economic security policies.

Three authors — Laura Lam, Amy E. Reichert and Scott Reintgen — weigh in on what the Harry Potter series has meant to them over the decades.

President Biden will meet with nearly a dozen Mideast leaders on a trip this week that will cover issues from Yemen to oil to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

David Dondero was born in Duluth, Minn. But the singer spent so much of his life on the road that he doesn't seem to be from anywhere. His drifter sensibility gives him unique perspective on the places he passes through. His sixth album is South of the South, a reference to Florida.

An ethnobotanist travels into the Sahara Desert to research the vanishing customs of Timbuktu, once a medieval intellectual center. In the first of a four-part National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows Wade Davis for the start of a project to document disappearing cultures of the world.

Rents are skyrocketing and eviction moratoriums are ending. The story of one evicted family in Connecticut could foreshadow what's ahead for vulnerable communities.

Thousands of Chinese travel by bus, train and foot to Beijing in hope of finding a sympathetic and powerful official who will offer justice and come to their rescue. This system of petitioning is a throwback to imperial days, and fewer are finding satisfaction.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dr. Dannagal Young, professor of communications and political science at the University of Delaware, about how media coverage of gun violence affects news consumers.

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination is much more than a memoir about a stillborn child. Elizabeth McCracken's story of stunning loss and grief is also a moving and affirming story of love.