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On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Alex Kotlowitz, who followed the lives of two boys in a Chicago housing project for his 1991 book There Are No Children Here.

Algorithms were around for a very long time before the public paid them any notice. The word itself is derived from the name of a 9th-century Persian mathematician, and the notion is simple enough: an algorithm is just any step-by-step procedure for accomplishing some task, from making the morning coffee to performing cardiac surgery.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled the all-male military draft is unconstitutional because women now serve in combat roles. The judge called the male-only draft discriminatory.

Same day delivery? Some online shoppers want their goods within an hour. And now they can get a package delivered just that quickly - thanks, in part, to robots.

Venezuelans have been suffering one calamity to the next, but in recent weeks, much of the country has had to go long stretches without electricity.

New York Times journalist Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March when a six-day blackout hit, considered at the time the worst in the country's history.

I've been waiting for Tony Horwitz to write another big on-the-road book that crisscrosses the American cultural divide ever since his bestseller, Confederates in the Attic, came out in 1998.

For those who haven't read it, Confederates in the Attic is a revelatory and very funny first person travelogue in which Horwitz roams the South, talking to battlefield reenactors and members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, in order to grasp what he calls America's "unfinished" Civil War.

Here's an SAT word for you: "aptronym." An aptronym is a proper name that's especially "apt" for describing the person who bears it. Take Usain Bolt, the bolt-of-lighting Jamaican sprinter, or the poet William Wordsworth.

On the next Fresh Air – as our divided nation awaits the outcome of election day, we talk about the most divisive issue in our nation’s history.

Andrew McCabe became the FBI director after President Trump fired James Comey. Last March, McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on grounds related to his authorizing an aide to speak with the Wall Street Journal about the FBI’s probe into the Clinton Foundation.

Former Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe has a new book coming out.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says it's not normal for the bureau to open investigations into the president.

"We don't have a lot of experience with investigating presidents of the United States," McCabe says.

This year, I was blown away by the Tiny Desk Contest entries I saw. We received over 6,000 entries from all across the country. We saw tiny desks up on rooftops and down on a subway platform; tucked into treetops, pickup trucks and laundromats.

On the next Fresh Air, we continue our holiday series of favorite interviews of the year with actor Rami Malek.

On the next Fresh Air, we continue our holiday series of favorite interviews of the year with actor Rami Malek.

A recent scandal shed light on students who cheat their way into college.

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Attorneys for local governments across the country unveiled a plan Friday that they say would move the nation closer to a global settlement of lawsuits stemming from the deadly opioid crisis.

On the next fresh air, our archive interviews with two people who died this week.

President Trump claims that large numbers of non-citizens are registering to vote.

This election, gun control was a central issue for many Democratic candidates in suburban districts.

Some states are benefiting from letting undocumented immigrants get a driver's license. Could these laws offer a roadmap to policymakers across the country?  Plus, former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro sits down with Steve Inskeep to talk about running for president.

On the next Fresh Air - voting rights and voting restrictions --Terry talks with ARI BERMAN, author of Give us the Ballot.

During the Great Recession, the state sold its capitol and other buildings in a sale-lease-back deal to raise money. Nearly a decade later, the state has a plan to reclaim the buildings.

Newly elected Democratic mayor Arturo Garino was busy with Election Day when the Army arrived in Nogales and started erecting coils of glistening razor wire along the tops of the border wall that separates his small U.S.