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The famed neurologist talks to Fresh Air about how grief, trauma, brain injury, medications and neurological disorders can trigger hallucinations — and about his personal experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs in the 1960s.

Sunday's vote is between a far-right libertarian and the current economy minister. The winner will confront challenges such as triple-digit inflation, poverty and an increasingly polarized population.

Author and sociologist David Cunningham speaks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the origins of cross burnings and white hoods, and why North Carolina had more Klan members during the height of the civil rights movement than all other Southern states combined.

Bill Berloni has more than 30 years of experience training dogs, pigs, rats, cats and lambs for Broadway productions and Hollywood films. Fresh Air listens back to an interview with him from 2008.

Heat pumps are an important tool to stave off global warming. Two Berkeley musicians wrote a sultry anthem about them.

How are power grids in the western U.S. handling the current heat dome, and what needs to happen to ensure that power grids can keep up with rising temperatures and extreme weather?

The latest take on the live musical format premiered Sunday night on Fox with a production of Rent, but a cast member injury forced Fox to air a taped dress rehearsal instead.

A lot of folks know New Mexico for green chiles, the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, and the birthplace of the bomb. But it's also a global center of flamenco—the passionate dance, song and music of the Roma people of southern Spain.

Tillamook-based Aerostar quietly supports space missions with NASA-certified tech, including high-altitude balloons and the only air barrier approved for the ISS — a surprising aerospace hub in Oregon's dairy country.

Steve Inskeep speaks with James Dobbins, a former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo, about U.S. military assistance to opposition movements in other countries. So far, the Obama administration is only providing Syrian rebels with medical and food supplies. Dobbins is the director of the RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center.