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Ailsa Chang talks to journalist Robin Wright of The New Yorker about the protests that began over economic issues and then turned political. Wright is also a fellow at the Wilson Center.

The wood pellet fuel industry is growing in the United States. The largest chip mills across the South are gobbling up hardwood forests to meet demand for overseas customers.

The new year brought more than just new resolutions. It also brought hundreds of new state laws Monday. Here are a few notables — from marijuana legalization to house calls from hair cutters.

It's a new year and time for a new you! Or not. NPR producer Melissa Gray, a self-described "potty mouth," has decided to try to cut her casual cursing, but she needs better euphemisms. Help her.

Many Muscovites celebrate winter with a visit to the world's biggest ice rink, a refurbished Cold War relic in a park dedicated to Soviet achievements that was created in the 1930s.

Rachel Martin talks to Kirsten West Savali, who writes for the online magazine The Root and knew Erica Garner. Garner's life was transformed by the death of her father at the hands of the NYPD.

A New Zealand town bans drinking in public places during the holidays for safety reasons. According to The New Zealand Herald, a group of friends created their own island to get around the ban.

The Department of Homeland Security renewed their Temporary Protective Status or TPS until July, but it doesn't look like the Trump administration will grant any more extensions.

Grafton revolutionized what had become fossilized formula fiction. She tossed out the genre's sexist, racist and nativist clichés and helped make the detective novel matter again.

"Just the last few years alone have seen some serious breakthroughs in Alzheimer's research," Joseph Jebelli says. His new book is The Pursuit of Memory.