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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New Mexico state senator Bill Soules about his proposed bill to make roasted chile the official aroma of the Land of Enchantment.

In the southern Turkish city of Osmaniye, people squeeze into tents or sleep in cars near their damaged homes nearly a week after the massive earthquake struck.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Gothataone Moeng about her first collection of short stories, "Call and Response." They involve Botswanan characters caught between tradition and modernity.

For Black History Month, NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Edith Renfrow Smith of Chicago. Now 108 years old, she has witnessed A LOT of history.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Kerry Condon, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the new movie "The Banshees of Inisherin."

NPR's Scott Simon talks with renowned Turkish novelist Elif Shafak about the earthquake in Turkey, as a human tragedy and a possible political catalyst.

A display alluding to an antisemitic conspiracy theory was projected onto the former hiding place of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl whose diary notes the persecution her people faced during World War II.

Increasingly, private equity firms shape staffing decisions at hospital emergency rooms, research shows. One apparent effect: Hiring fewer doctors and more health care practitioners who earn far less.

In a camp in Gaziantep and in makeshift settlements in the fields around it, survivors of Monday's quake say they do not have enough food, water, heating or basic amenities to keep themselves alive.

Republicans committed publicly at the State of the Union not to cut Social Security or Medicare. But it remains the party's third rail amid talks over the debt ceiling.