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When it was published in 1960, Harper Lee's modest novel helped Americans think differently about race. Now, 50 years later, To Kill a Mockingbird still resonates in a much-changed America. NPR's Lynn Neary examines the lasting impact of Scout Finch and her father, Atticus — a lawyer who defends a black man unjustly accused of rape.

Employee performance reviews should be eliminated, according to Samuel Culbert: "First, they're dishonest and fraudulent. And second, they're just plain bad management." The UCLA business professor has written a new book expanding on that view.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote that the jury in the Carroll case did not reach "a seriously erroneous result," as former President Donald Trump said.

Chef Robert Weland grows tomatoes and herbs in a kind of urban oasis next to his Washington, D.C., restaurant. The garden's bounty will end up as a bowl of cool, smooth gazpacho.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse examines the public discourse that led to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. She details the various legal briefs presented by both sides of the abortion debate to the court — and explains the newest challenges facing the legislation today.

When Paul Greenberg started fishing as a kid in the '70s, he didn't have to think twice about dwindling wild fish populations. That was before the world nearly doubled its fish consumption. Four Fish is Greenberg's investigation into the future of the last wild food.

A new document filed as part of a proposed Biden administration rule to increase privacy for patient's medical records shows Dave Yost is one of 19 attorney generals nationwide who have signed a letter, saying they should have access to that information.

There was a time when the Los Angeles neighborhood was known for silent films -- not drive-by shootings. In The Madonnas of Echo Park, debut novelist Brando Skyhorse revisits his old neighborhood -- and residents who still live there say his words hit home.

In his latest book, British journalist William Dalrymple profiles nine Indian religious devotees — from a Jain nun, to an idol carver, to a Buddhist monk. Nine Lives surveys the subcontinent's rich religious topography by focusing on individual journeys of personal faith.

A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.