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Rick Springfield Rejoins 'General Hospital'

Late last year, Rick Springfield reprised his role as Dr. Noah Drake on the long-running ABC daytime drama General Hospital. Springfield talks about why he came back, and his new album.

A Legend In His Own Field: Farmer John

John Peterson was accused of turning his family farm into a haven for devil-worship, drugs, and orgies. But the flamboyant farmer eventually thrived by going organic. The Real Dirt on Farmer John tells his story.

The Misunderstanding of John Malkovich

John Malkovich is more than just a big-screen baddie -- and he's more than just an actor. He talks about being misunderstood as a performer and about his dual role as actor and producer in his latest film, the black comedy Art School Confidential.

'Taking the Heat': Fighting to Join the NYFD

Brenda Berkman joined the all-male New York Fire Department in 1982 after winning a federal sex discrimination lawsuit. Now her fight and those of other female firefighters is the subject of a new PBS documentary, Taking the Heat.

Christopher Buckley, photographed at The Caucus Room, a (smoky) bar in Washington, D.C.

Novelist Buckley, Smoking Out the Self-Righteous

The film adaptation of Christopher Buckley's 1994 satirical novel Thank You for Smoking is about to hit the big screen. He talks with Liane Hansen about the movie from a smoke-filled bar in Washington, D.C.

Mac Miller performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Aug. 1, 2018.

The Best Tiny Desk Concerts Of 2018

Watch 25 of the year's greatest, most surprising Tiny Desk performances, featuring just a sampling of the gifted artists who passed through NPR Music's office this year.

The richest people in the world got even richer during the pandemic and more people fell into poverty, says an Oxfam report. The charity claims that this growing economic gap leads to "economic violence."

Oxfam says the rich got richer in the pandemic, and the wealth gap is killing the poor

The poverty-fighting charity points to unprecedented new wealth accrued by the ultra-rich — and asserts that the result of the world's growing inequality is "economic violence" for the impoverished.

Former <em>New York Times</em> editorial page editor James Bennet, shown here in a photo from 2017, said Tuesday he accepted blame for an editorial that falsely linked a graphic from former Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee with a mass shooting in Arizona. He testified during Palin's defamation suit.

Former 'New York Times' editor testifies on Sarah Palin editorial: 'This is my fault'

Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet testified Tuesday he was to blame for an incorrect passage about former Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial on heated political rhetoric.

Lee Boyd Malvo, seen here in this undated photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections is asking that his six life sentences without possibility of parole should be reconsidered because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles.

D.C. sniper's case for reconsidering his sentences is heard by Maryland Supreme Court

Lee Boyd Malvo's attorneys argue that his six life sentences should be reconsidered because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that barred mandatory life sentences for juveniles.

Nelson George: 'Smart Black People'

Nelson George, a prolific writer and critic of black America, has made a documentary based on his best-selling book Post-Soul Nation. The new film, Smart Black People, profiles African-American personalities who left their stamp on America in the 1980s.

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