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Every successful big band leader featured brilliant soloists, but Duke Ellington spotlighted his men apart from the rest. Ellington specifically targeted his musicians' strengths and accentuated those attributes.

Barbaro, the horse scrutinized by many for the strength and speed required to win the Triple Crown, is now under the watchful eyes of doctors and his owners, Gretchen and Roy Jackson. The thoroughbred colt underwent emergency surgery after shattering parts of his right rear leg in Saturday's Preakness Stakes.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Southwest Florida still don't have electricity or water. But Babcock Ranch, north of Fort Myers, was designed and built to withstand the most powerful storms.

The first-in-the-nation caucus state has been overflowing with Republican Presidential candidates, all hoping to be the number one choice of caucus-goers…

On today's show:Civics 101: Executive Orders"'Please Call Stella': Capturing English, from Adrikaans to Zulu" from producer Rebecca Sheir. Listen again at…

Counties are the "forgotten" part of government, but why do they matter?Counties handle the business of governance too big for towns, but too granular for…

Manchester voters are being asked today which flag they’d like to see as the city’s official flag. It’s a non-binding informational question. The next…

A new report argues that humanities and social sciences are as essential to the country's economic and civic future as science and technology. The study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was commissioned in 2010 by a bipartisan group of members of Congress. It comes at a time when the value of the liberal arts is being challenged by economic and political forces.

The National Basketball Association announced Tuesday that there are no games scheduled for November 8 in an effort to encourage fans to vote in the 2022 midterms.

NHPR and The Music Hall in Portsmouth will present Writers on a New England Stage with Huma Abedin on Tuesday, September 27 at 7 PM to discuss her memoir Both/And. The conversation will be hosted by Hannah McCarthy, co-host of NHPR’s Civics 101.