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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to James Kraska - a professor of international maritime law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island - about the legality of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.

Ukraine launches political Russian studies program to better understand wartime enemy.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Matthew Shear, who wrote, directed, and co-stars in the film "Fantasy Life."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Willy Vlautin about his new book "The Left and The Lucky" and focusing his writing on working class characters.

Jan Morris was a writer who seemed to be everywhere at the right moment, from witnessing the first climb of Mt. Everest to interviewing Che Guevara. NPR's Scott Simon talks to biographer Sara Wheeler.

Chinese car company NIO is putting up EV battery swapping stations all around the world. NPR took a ride in one car for the experience.

Friends gathered at a weaver's studio in Massachusetts to help MaddyChristine Hope Brokopp make her casket.

In the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, flocks of colorful macaws that once brightened city skies now face disappearing nest sites — and with them, a unique urban bond.

Experts who spent months negotiating a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran say mutual mistrust, starkly different negotiating styles, and the complexity of the issues make a quick deal unlikely.

An 82-year-old Virginia senator raising the stakes, an Indiana consensus builder and a Texas enforcer are among state officials who have shaped the course of the midterm redistricting race.