NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, it's poetry and gardening, for others, it's meditation and community.

Code Switch's Gene Demby looks into the Department of Education's new end-DEI portal that asks Americans to narc on their local public schools.

Zach Mack spent a year attempting to rescue his father from the depths of the conspiracy rabbit hole. Their family was forced to reckon with clashing realities, ideological divides and misinformation.

Code Switch's B.A. Parker takes a look at the many ways our digital world is being erased.

Let's celebrate Groundhog Day, in all its bizarre, quirky strangeness. Let it remind us that we have not subdued nature, but merely made ourselves more comfortable in its domain.

For President Biden's legacy, we should look to late President Jimmy Carter's history in Central America.

Former U.S. Ambassador Derek Mitchell argues the United States should assert its leadership in helping shape Myanmar's peaceful, just and democratic future.

Since her husband's death, newscaster Windsor Johnston has been looking for ways to recapture joy and continue her healing journey — one that's taken her to a place she'd never expected.

The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a long malaise and kindled a newfound optimism about the country's future.

Oxford professor Ben Ansell says we are witnessing a battle between nationalism and liberalism that will write our own time indelibly into the history books of tomorrow.

Even as a young child, I could understand the idea that words have meaning, which is why when Sen. Lindsey Graham referred to a "lynch mob" coming after Matt Gaetz, I felt my stomach drop.

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

Code Switch weighs in on preparing for difficult political conversations and when to draw the line and uninvite yourself from that family potluck.

There's a police check to exit the subway, another to get in line, a third while standing in line, and metal detectors and X-ray machines before you finally reach the Beijing landmark.

Aging can be a lifeline for immigrants, like my parents, whose life was defined by work.