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At the height of the Great Depression, a government economist named Roy Stryker sent some of America's best photographers to document farm life. The result is one of the greatest collections of photographs ever -- and the book Children of the Depression highlights the most memorable images.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is featuring a broad survey of art made by artists who called themselves surrealists -- and by many who didn't. David D'Arcy reports that the art movement itself defied rigid definitions, but curators keep trying.

In the last of a six-part series of reports on New Yorkers keeping alive the legacy of jobs from a bygone era, Radio Diaries and All Things Considered profile Frank Sabatino, one of the last fishermen still docking his working boat in Brooklyn.

Sledge hockey is one of the roughest events in the Paralympics, the winter games for disabled athletes. Players are strapped into sleds and they propel themselves with sticks. Otherwise, the game is pretty much like ice hockey. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Astronauts are giving the middle-aged space telescope an overhaul, rejuvenating its power source and sharpening its vision with a new electronic eye. The 12-year-old Hubble has already rewritten science, and astronomers say there's more to come. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with the Space Telescope Science Institute's Bruce Margon.

Half a year has passed since jets hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. NPR News reports on Americans' countless steps toward recovery. On Morning Edition, one man's remembrance of the wife he lost in the attack on the Pentagon.

Can America become energy independent? In a series of reports, All Things Considered asks whether increased production, decreased consumption, or a combination of the two can free the nation from dependence on foreign oil in an unstable world. (7:30)

A COVID aid bill that President Biden says is crucial to dealing with the next phase of the pandemic has been stalled as Republicans try to force the CDC to keep border restrictions in place.

Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement holding 2022 Mayoral Forum at Athens library.

Pakistan's supreme court has ruled that a move by the prime minister to dissolve parliament is illegal, ending a political crisis — for now.