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In the first half of the 20th century, American eugenicists used forced sterilization to "breed out" traits they considered undesirable. Adam Cohen tells the story in his new book, Imbeciles.

The Missouri Senate has given preliminary approval to a proposed state constitutional amendment that would protect groups and people with religious objections to same-sex ceremonies.

The leading contenders are believed to be Merrick Garland and Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Court of Appeals and Paul Watford of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

The InSight mission, which would send a lander to detect marsquakes and study the planet's interior, was scheduled for this month. It has been delayed because a pivotal piece of equipment was flawed.

Sunday is selection day for the NCAA basketball tournament. Sports columnist John Feinstein describes how the word "seeding" has become the term of art to describe bracketing in sports tournaments.

We prefer doing things the way we've always done them — even if embracing something new would make things better.

The 30th anniversary of the popular South by Southwest festival kicked off Friday. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson has a preview of some of the bands to check out this year.

For years, NPR's Claudio Sanchez has struggled with his decision to leave teaching and the children he had grown so fond of.

It's Pi Day, the day regular people gawk at the brilliance and beauty of a mathematical constant. We focus on why pi still captures our imagination thousands of years after it was first calculated.

Ivory Coast has become the latest target of a terrorist attack in West Africa claimed by Islamist extremists. It was the third such attack in 5 months on hotels popular with foreigners in the region.