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Is it naive to believe that improved Internet access can help open up truly autocratic regimes like North Korea? Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, authors of The New Digital Age, say the power of information is underrated.

Scotty Bowers, now 95, facilitated the sexual proclivities of major film actors during Hollywood's golden age — and kept their most intimate secrets. A new documentary reveals his secrets.

U.S. ships in the Mediterranean on Thursday launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base. Rachel Martin talks to Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who says the president should have gone to Congress first.

Artist Llyn Foulkes has been an underground force on the Los Angeles art scene for more than 50 years. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney in New York and L.A.'s MOCA. He's won first prize at the Paris Biennale, and he's been on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, as a musician. Carolina Miranda has a profile of a very unusual man.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Andrew Croft tells NPR's Steve Inskeep about the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, which the Iraqi government says is over after ISIS was expelled.

NPR'S Scott Simon speak with author Wajahat Ali about his article in The Atlantic, "A Muslim Among the Settlers," about traveling to Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Following the false alarm in Hawaii, Steve Inskeep talks to former Secretary of Defense William Perry, who says the risk of accidental nuclear war is not hypothetical. It's happened before.

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Mayor Dee Margo of El Paso, Texas, about how border communities perceive the standoff between Republicans and Democrats over the border wall.

Steve Inskeep talks to former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, who discusses the EU parliamentary elections that concluded Sunday. Bildt is now co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

We take a year-end musical road trip with Memphis music writer Robert Gordon, who shares some of the stories from his collection of essays "Memphis Rent Party."