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NPR's Melissa Block speaks with David Knopman, vice chair of the Alzheimer's Association's Medical and Scientific Advisory Council, about more effective diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

As a police officer is tried for manslaughter in the death of an unarmed black man, is Charlotte's reputation for progress on race on trial, too?

The Pentagon's ban on facial hair and religious headgear has long been an obstacle for Sikh men, who wear turbans and don't cut their hair. Sikhs are hoping a court ruling might lead to a rule change.

Unlike 2008, the current turmoil didn't originate in the U.S., economist Austan Goolsbee notes. And this time, the economy is growing, banks aren't in danger and there's no credit crunch, he says.

Alaska's health commissioner spends her summers working on policy issues by day and fishing for salmon for the winter on nights and weekends with her family who belong to the Yup'ik people.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Vali Nasr, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, about President Trump's foreign policy and his approach to dealing with Iran.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Republican political consultant Mike Murphy about what it might take to run a primary against President Trump.

A change in the new tax law eliminates the deduction for donations made to university athletic departments to acquire season tickets. NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Mack Rhoades, the athletic director at Baylor University about the change.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow about his profile of Scot Peterson, the Broward County sheriff deputy stationed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School the day a gunman killed 17 people.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., about the bill he co-sponsored to close the loophole on devices which make semi-automatic weapons into rapid-fire automatic weapons.