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The importance of community leadership, diversity, and how to engage more people into leadership positions.

They're activist and advocates from Brazil, Colombia, India, Kenya, Lesotho and the U.S. We wanted to know: How do they stay positive in the face of the world's many problems and woes?

American and United — the airport's two major carriers — reached agreement with O'Hare to build a new runway, which will complete a decade-long modernization project.

Film critic David Edelstein presents his top ten movies of 2006, and also discusses the best of the holiday options.

NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2016. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

A new report from Uber, covering 2017 and 2018, says the claims range from unwanted touching and kissing to rape. Also, 19 people were killed in physical assaults during or soon after an Uber ride.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

This Sunday on Arts & Ideas: That place in nature we always go back to; the real story of Betsy Ross and America's first flag; and a Fourth of July celebration about flag colors, serving one's country, and trying to find a common definition of patriotism.

Two heads are better than one. Many scientific breakthroughs come when scientists from different fields or different sectors team up to tackle a single…

"We really think that carbon isn't necessarily a bad thing; it's just in the wrong place. In our atmosphere, it causes these impacts that are really…