NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with Houston Public Media listener Ed Menger and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the story of America on the 4th of July.

This week, we celebrate the 4th of July by revisiting some of our favorite guests of the past year, including Lauren Graham, Roy Wood Jr., Amanda Seyfried, mxmtoon, and Jim Gaffigan!

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.

Cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts have impacted groups around the country, including a theater company in Denver that gives disabled actors and audiences the chance to participate.

It's natural to feel some skepticism when a celebrity makes a documentary about their own family. But Law & Order star Mariska Hargitay' tells a story that is both effective and empathetic.

Everyone has their traditions for July 4. For the town of George, Washington, it’s baking a giant cherry pie.

A group of swimmers is campaigning for the Avon to get bathing status by the British government, which would mean the water would be regularly tested for pollutants.

If you have a job you’d wanna leave or are out of work looking for a job, it's hard trying to find that new gig.

The Declaration of Independence turns 249 years old on Friday. While it famously said “that all men are created equal,” it didn’t expressly define who is a citizen.