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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Efrain Talamantes, a primary care physician in Los Angeles, about how the pandemic is impacting the Latino community in the city at an exponentially higher rate.

As the Biden administration accelerates a plan to use pharmacies to distribute covid-19 vaccines, significant areas of the country lack brick-and-mortar pharmacies capable of administering the protective shots.

"The blunt truth is men still run the world," says Silicon Valley executive Sheryl Sandberg — and the problem begins as early as the playground, where assertive boys are called leaders, and assertive girls are called bossy.

School leaders say the pressures of the pandemic had already made this school year the most challenging of their lives. Then came the omicron variant.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with author Ann Patchett about her latest collection of essays, These Precious Days, and how she ended up quarantining with Tom Hanks' personal assistant.

NPR's A Martinez talks with Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota about voting rights, and acknowledgement that there was no widespread fraud in the presidential election.

The White House has been trying to stem the flow of unaccompanied children into the U.S. from Mexico. Steve Inskeep talks to Human Rights Watch's Bill Felick and the State Department's Simon Henshaw.

Elderly inmates make up an increasing percentage of the U.S. prison population. Many are serving life sentences. Others are in prison for crimes committed late in life. The oldest male prisoner in the country is 99 years old. The fourth-oldest prisoner is John Rodriguez.

A new book collects the stories of ordinary Americans who were involved in -- and transformed by -- the country's civil rights movements. NPR's Juan Williams, who compiled the oral histories, discusses them with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

In the summer, from dusk until the moon rises, photographer Pete Mauney finds his photos' subjects along quiet stretches of highway, in hidden pockets of woods and under power lines.