Ari Shapiro

Are frozen embryos objects or people? Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that they are unborn chi...

Early last year, Danny Werfel had recently gotten a new job and $80 billion added to his budget. He'...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio holds the record for the longest U.S. space flight, but he wasn't trying ...

Very few people are allowed to enter Gaza right now. Dr. Seema Jilani, an American, is one of them. ...

If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In...

The latest numbers show a strong picture for the U.S. economy. New figures show unemployment is down...

Barely 24 hours after the Hamas attack on Israel, Etai Iam Rimer threw himself into volunteering. He...

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie in Israel had a visceral reaction to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, but says he...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Sometimes fiction can help us see the world more clearly than the news can. And s...

The writing read aloud by Etgar Keret in this piece was translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen.

Warning, this story contains descriptions of atrocities committed against civilians. TEL AVIV, Israe...

The conflict in Israel and Gaza has brought grief and pain to many Jews and Muslims in the U.S.. All...

President Biden recently had an experience that many of us have gone through lately — a family membe...

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Today on the show, All Things C...

Lauren Mayberry has been onstage at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. before. Many times, in fact. T...

Ash Williams, an abortion doula in North Carolina, talks about the state's new ban on most abortions...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the U.S. is committed to putting Ukraine in the best pos...

The recordings in this segment came from the Babanki Living Dictionary and the Nalik Living Dictiona...

Happiness can be hard to quantify, because it can mean something different to everyone. But let's sa...

Should robots working alongside law enforcement be used to deploy deadly force? The San Francisco Bo...

For many, checking social media has become a routine of logging on, seeing something that makes them...