Good morning, Chicago. When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda today, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

The writer Noah Smith helps Fareed sort fact from fiction in the aftermath of the LA wildfires.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

I once wrote a musical play with a character who spoke almost exclusively in words beginning with “a.” The practice was, in ...