Kind words from a stranger helped Laura Holmes-Haddad While undergoing chemo
In this week's My Unsung Hero, Laura Holmes-Haddad got some much-needed kind words from a stranger.
Arts
The U.S. is threatening to ban TikTok? Good luck
TikTok is on trial as U.S. authorities consider a ban. There's just one problem: it's not only an app for silly videos anymore, it is now entwined with our culture.
It's impossible to fit 'All Things' Ari Shapiro does into this headline
Shapiro co-hosts All Things Considered, co-stars in a cabaret act with Alan Cumming, and sings with the band Pink Martini. Now, he's written a book, a memoir called The Best Strangers in the World.
'Better Call Saul' star's new series 'Lucky Hank' makes a midlife crisis compelling
Bob Odenkirk strikes gold again in his latest TV series, Lucky Hank. Playing to type, he makes the laconic, dissatisfied and restless title character likable and relatable.
How these art sleuths reunited a family after centuries apart
In 1626, a father and son sat for a portrait. Nearly 400 years later their story is still being examined by experts in Europe.
'Like a living scrapbook': 'My Powerful Hair' is a celebration of Native culture
Author Carole Lindstrom follows Caldecott-winning We Are Water Protectors with another children's book featuring Native culture. She says she hopes it helps kids "see themselves in a positive way."
In 'Old God's Time,' Sebastian Barry stresses the long effects of violence and abuse
Sebastian Barry's relentlessly bleak, stunning new novel follows his character Tom, a retired police detective, as his life is thrown into disarray when he's confronted with a past he'd rather forget.
'Succession' returns for a fourth and final season of family back-stabbing
The creators are holding Season 4 close to the vest for obvious reasons. But the Roy family is back and off to an emotionally complicated, darkly funny, bantering, betraying, punch-packing start.
Gwyneth Paltrow appears in a Utah court for a trial over a 2016 ski crash
The trial has been seven years in the making, and on Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actress appeared in Park City for a jury trial that will determine who was at fault in the 2016 crash.
Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor
Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."