In the heyday of Heather Simpson‘s anti-vaccine influencer days, she watched in amazement as her social media accounts blew up with every anti-vaccine post and piece of misinformation she shared. But ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

A panel of federal appeals court judges in Louisiana ended national telemedicine access to the abortion pill mifepristone on Friday. But on Monday, the Supreme Court temporarily restored access by ...

A brother remembers his sister, Cheryl White, who was the first black female jockey.

Public universities across Texas have instituted sweeping changes to course teachings and offerings in recent months, from canceling gender studies programs to directing faculty to sign a pledge not ...

After her 15-year-old son Mason died following a viral online challenge, Joann Bogard began asking how dangerous content reached him in the first place. Now, as a jury finds Meta and YouTube negligent ...

Aging isn’t a number; it’s all the numbers. That’s the premise behind the “Oldster” online newsletter, founded four years ago by now 60-year-old Sari Botton. Botton asserts that from our 20s through ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

The consensus among the world’s scientists is that greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide and methane — are driving climate change, resulting in droughts, storms, heat and rising sea levels. It ...

For nearly 50 years, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has been giving viewers a weekly dose of political satire — who can forget Dana Carvey’s “wouldn’t be prudent” impersonations of the ever-so-cautious ...

Have you spent the week checking social media for updates on how Punch the macaque monkey is doing? Well, if so, you aren’t alone. Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd talks with Michelle Del Rey, a trending ...

Pakistan hit a series of military installations across Afghanistan overnight. The Pakistani defense minister described the attacks as an open war. It's not clear yet what the death toll is. NPR's Diaa ...