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Rural Yakima County, east of Seattle, has the most COVID-19 cases per capita among West Coast states. The largely Latino agricultural workforce helped secure the backbone of the local economy.

About 40% of people with obsessive compulsive disorder struggle, as I do, with contamination anxiety. Balancing the need to sanitize a home in pandemic times with the need to tame OCD can be tricky.

The federal government is planning a massive system of floodwalls, pumps and surge barriers for Miami. But it doesn't address the more frequently felt threat from rising sea levels.

Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams tells listeners which books and TV shows she recommends to better understand the current moment.

California is paying to train a huge contingent of contact tracers by July. Many of the new recruits are librarians: they're curious, tech savvy, and great at talking to strangers.

The flattening effect of political discourse, insipidity of the first lady role and her own remoteness have led us to either forget she has an inner life — or to imagine her as an elegant prisoner.

Officials have discovered 79 symptomatic cases of the coronavirus linked to the Xinfadi food market, prompting a return to partial lockdown measures and fears of a second wave of infections.

Former NFL player Brendon Ayanbadejo and designer Aurora James share their book recommendations for understanding this current moment.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with writer and activist Desmond Cole about racism in Canada and ongoing protests there in response to the killing of George Floyd.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gary Younge, professor of sociology at the University of Manchester, about the way racism in the U.S. affects how Europeans think about racism in their own countries.