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Author Henry Grabar says parking codes, parking lots and garages have shaped the landscape of cities and suburbs, and limited the creation of affordable housing.

The first American cookbook, published in 1796, promised local food and a kind of socioculinary equality. But generations later, foodies are still puzzling over how to define "American food."

In an NPR poll looking at experience with discrimination, Asian-Americans told us that individual prejudice is a bigger problem than bias by government or laws.

2: The hypenated American, with novelist DIANA ABU-JABER (pronounced "ABU-jabber"). Her first novel "Arabian Jazz" (Harcourt Brace) is now out; it explores the lives of two sisters in upstate New York, the children a Jordanian father and an American mother.

inguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG looks at how Americans use the word "Rich." In this election year, it has used extensively by the two presidential candidates. Nunberg looks at the origin of the word and why some "well to do" Americans don''t like being called "rich."

NPR's David Greene talks to Christine Chen, director of the nonprofit Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote, about what Andrew Yang's presidential run meant for the Asian American community.

Jay Sweet shares what he thinks makes a song truly American, and what he looks for in the bands he chooses to play the festival.

Professor of English, and Director of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, GERALD EARLY. He reflects on the meaning of Motown music to whites and blacks.

of the French abortion pill RU-486, and are hoping to test it on two thousand American women. Advocates say the strategy will speed up approval of the drug, which has long been use in Europe .

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Guillermo Grenier, a sociology professor at Florida International University.