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Writer Joshua Cohen says his new novel (about a journalist and a tech mogul both also named Joshua Cohen) aims to reclaim the Internet. "It's made of our humanity," he tells NPR's Robert Siegel.

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke in Chicago on Monday on the legal rationales for targeting and killing Americans suspected of terrorism overseas. Carrie Johnson talks to Melissa Block.

Good Charlotte ruled the pop punk world in the early 2000s. Now, as rocker dads, the band has released a new album to inform the next generation about depression, drug use and more.

On this edition, we talk with Talicia Brown, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Cultural Initiative about a new monument to Eugene's black community that is being built and cited at Alton Baker Park. Then we talk with Kelly Fleischmann of Greenhill Humane Society about a recent rescue of more than 36 cats at one home.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, Scott Simon will speak with past Pulitzer winners over the next few months. Simon previews this week's conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed.

Anderson was an early inspiration for scholar Shana Redmond, who explores the places she still feels the diva's presence: an inscrutable photo, a scrap of silent film, a concert borne on her legacy.

Modern Chinese music is most famous for sappy Canto-pop love songs. But on the mainland, young Chinese musicians are innovating and taking risks with ancient music forms such as throat singing. Former punk singer Ilchi is now a force in the Mongolian folk-music revival with his band Hanggai.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel about how the climate has changed over the last decade and what that means for the next one.

The administration’s recent moves mark a new stage in the long history of presidents seeking to expand their authority to decide whether American troops should be deployed.

Civil War veteran Julius Howell of Bristol, Va., was 101 years old when he was recorded at the Library of Congress in June 1947. He spoke of how he learned of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 140 years ago this morning.