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Black communities in the U.S. suffer disproportionately from health care debt. The reasons go back to segregation and a history of racist policies that have limited Black wealth.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Kristin Myers, editor in chief of the personal finance website The Balance, about federal unemployment programs that expire on Monday.

Howard Dean Bailey made a good life for himself in the U.S. But then, a decades-old run-in with the law led to his deportation. Does his story show the system failing or working?

People under coronavirus lockdown may be facing extra mental health challenges — with fewer accessible ways to cope.

America is growing more geographically polarized — red ZIP codes are getting redder and blue ZIP codes are becoming bluer. People appear to be sorting.

Orthodox Christianity is a relatively small faith tradition in the U.S., but in recent years it has expanded to new regions. Some new converts are using the religion to spread white nationalist views.

Inflation and fears of a recession are dominating headlines in the U.S., and a series of global crises means that the economic outlook is even more precarious in some other parts of the world.

Commentator JIM NORTHRUP looks at computers on Native American Reservations.

, who is urging Americans to boycott all Chinese-made toys this Christmas, saying most of them are made by prisoners.

2: SUSAN DOUGLAS is a professor of media and American studies at Hampshire College. She has just written a book "Where the Girls Are (Random House)," that looks at women in baby-boomer pop culture. She explains how the media's alternating images of stereotypical femininity and feminism created a kind of "schizophrenia" in American women. She talks about how this confusion has caused ambivalence in American women about what feminism means. In her book, she deconstructs such TV shows as "Bewitched," whose female heroines have magical powers, and "Mary Tyler Moore," whose heroine remains permanently poised between and assertiveness and submissiveness.