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In the netherworld between the river and the levee outside New Orleans, there are a dozen eccentric structures. Some are rundown, some are handsome, and all of them are handmade — by residents who believe the land belongs to them.

Analysis: TV cameras, smartphones and unemployed youth make a volatile mix.

"I did feel like I was sometimes the translator between hillbilly and New York," says Richard Michael, a resident of Taneyville, Mo. He helped to scout locations and find props for the makers of last year's film about a teenage girl navigating the local meth trade in order to protect her home.

The Senate is scheduled to vote this week on a measure that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases, a vote which upsets some environmentalists. But Mario Loyola of The Weekly Standard argues that it's time for the Senate to stop the EPA's unprecedented power grab.

Every step we take, every move we make, somebody's watching us. If Greta Garbo — the iconic movie star who famously wanted to be left alone — were around today, she might be a prime customer of the online privacy industry.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to filmmaker Celine Sciamma about her movie, "Petite Maman," in which a young girl tries to understand her mother's past by befriending another child in the woods.

In Odesa, a port city in southern Ukraine, one jazz club has continued to host performances despite the Russian invasion, providing a haven for joy and creativity.

After the debt ceiling was finally raised on Sunday, American's didn't have long to celebrate — the global stock market immediately plummeted. Peter Boone and Simon Johnson of The New Republic explain why the economy is tanking around the world.

Even the merest hint of potential unrest in Saudi Arabia, which sits on a fifth of the world's oil reserves, is enough to spark fear in the oil markets and cause nightmares in Washington. Few analysts rule out the possibility of protests in Saudi Arabia, but they do say it is unlikely.

The price of the main U.S. oil contract hit $100 a barrel Wednesday — the highest in more than two years. And when the price of oil rises, the price of just about everything else — driving, heating, eating, shopping and more — starts to move up too. Is it time to get really worried?