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Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.

As concussions plague football, are there lessons from earlier concerns about boxing?

Singer Ruston Kelly writes an anthem to remind us of the good we can do for humanity.

20 million trees were planted after a viral study—but did they survive?

A portrait of Beatrice Vio, a Paralympic fencing champion.

Windy delivers an uplifting ballad about responding to the messages she sees on the news.

This week's fiction ranges from Robert Harris' take on Cicero's year as leader of Rome, to Louise Erdrich's twisted story of a marriage, to Walter Mosley's second Leonid McGill detective novel. In nonfiction, Elizabeth Gilbert gets Committed, and Michael Lewis probes The Big Short.

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How did a little known assemblyman become the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City? NPR's A Martinez talks to Bob Hardt, political director of the NY1 news channel.

Three children and three adults are dead following a shooting this morning at a school in Nashville, Tennessee. Authorities say the shooter was killed by police.