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The first night of the Republican National Convention painted a dark picture of what America would look like if Democrats win in November, and it tried to soften President Trump's personal image.

President Trump's new budget plan sets up a fight between Trump's populists and small-government advocates. Steve Inskeep talks with Tim Phillips of the Koch-associated group Americans for Prosperity.

In Montana and across the nation, homeless shelters report the worrisome trend that seniors are a growing proportion of their residents.

2: SUSAN DOUGLAS is a professor of media and American studies at Hampshire College. She has just written a book "Where the Girls Are (Random House)," that looks at women in baby-boomer pop culture. She explains how the media's alternating images of stereotypical femininity and feminism created a kind of "schizophrenia" in American women. She talks about how this confusion has caused ambivalence in American women about what feminism means. In her book, she deconstructs such TV shows as "Bewitched," whose female heroines have magical powers, and "Mary Tyler Moore," whose heroine remains permanently poised between and assertiveness and submissiveness.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Grammy-nominated artist 6LACK about his newest album: Since I Have a Lover.

There's been lots of coverage in the media about former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress. Whether people across the country are paying attention is another thing.

In just the last few years, the number of Native Americans serving as lifetime federal judges has doubled.

Ukraine's bookstores have expanded despite the war, fueled by interest in works by Ukrainian writers, some who have been killed by Russian forces. But a Russian missile struck a top printing plant.

Inflation is down since its peak during the pandemic, but the feeling of sticker shock still lingers. Planet Money looks into why feelings about prices diverge so much from official inflation data.

A group of Buddhist monks walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. The 108-day pilgrimage captivated Americans.