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Washington Post reporter Laura Meckler tells the story of Shaker Heights, Ohio, a town with high-performing, diverse schools — and also a pronounced achievement gap between white and Black students.

With high inflation, it feels like everything in the U.K. is more expensive — except beer. The government has begun taxing alcohol by strength rather than volume. So ale and prosecco are cheaper.

Giving rap the future it deserves means smashing the infrastructure as it is. But with the battle lines drawn, we can still take heart in the artists teasing just how much further the culture can go.

With high inflation, it feels like everything in the U.K. is more expensive — except beer. The government has begun taxing alcohol by strength rather than volume. So ale and prosecco are cheaper.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Steven Brill, founder of Court TV, why he thinks the 2020 election interference case against former President Donald Trump should be televised.

The U.N. estimates that July was the hottest month — in terms of the average global temperature-- in recorded history. That's leading to climate-driven disasters around the world.

When you're the president, vacation involves secret service, coordination with police, crowds of people watching you on the beach and the possibility that at any moment the job will come calling.

Jay Wellons has operated on kids' brains and spinal cords. He writes about the anguish of losing a patient and the exhilaration of saving a life in All That Moves Us. Originally broadcast July 2022.

NPR's Lilly Quiroz brings us a postcard from Guatemala about Lake Atitlán, considered to be one of the most beautiful lakes in the world.

The new UAW president says his members are being left out as the industry transitions to electric vehicles so he's applying pressure on the auto companies and the White House to do more for workers.