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The three Ws — wash your hands, wear a mask and watch your distance — are our best bets for warding off COVID-19 until we have one thing: a vaccine. A…

In some fancy hotels, Christmas tea has become a refined respite for harried shoppers. But the tradition's roots are much rowdier: efforts to fight public drunkenness.

Domenico Montanaro is NPR's senior political editor/correspondent. Based in Washington, D.C., his work appears on air and online delivering analysis of the political climate in Washington and campaigns. He also helps edit political coverage.

Seventy years ago this spring, university students all across Germany burned books deemed contrary to Nazi ideology. NPR's Emily Harris reports on the lifelong pursuit of a German war veteran to restore a literary legacy that was nearly lost. See archive photos from the book-burning rallies, and hear one witness recount what he saw at a 1933 rally in Berlin.

Since the 1960s, Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn has released 27 records — all of them on independent labels. His latest CD, You've Never Seen Everything, is a politically charged and energetic record that blends jazz themes with the sounds of electronica. Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers reports.

New rules aimed at clarifying what constitutes political activity for dark-money, non-profit groups are likely to give more heartburn to the right than the left. The majority of big-spending social-welfare organizations known as 501(c)(4) groups in 2012 were conservative.

The data-mining company being scrutinized in the U.S. may have been involved in Mexican politics since last year, and presidential candidates are scrambling to distance themselves from the firm.

The chief minister of India's most populous state came from humble origins, but Mayawati, as she is known, has not been shy about displaying her wealth. Recently, the show of opulence at a political rally — where she accepted a garland made entirely of money — seems to have gone too far, even by her standards.

Panhandling has been a hot political topic in the city of Greensboro this year. In April, the Greensboro City Council got rid of a controversial ordinance…

Ask Americans to name people who led the fight for civil rights in the 1960s and figures Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks will quickly emerge. But…