Here & Now

He never met his grandfather, who was a political prisoner and died in a labor camp. It was seen as a shameful chapter in his family's history and was never talked about, but 70 years later, Scott tells the story.

Politico's Kyle Cheney finds that the White House has only won about 10% of cases, but critics believe the administration's real goal is to wear down immigrants who don't want to risk sitting in a detention facility for months.

Iran has set up a new agency to collect tolls from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Underneath the excitement is a deeper story about affordability, immigrant communities, and who gets to participate in soccer culture in places like San Francisco and San José.

In the ashes of Spirit Airlines, which shut down in early May, JetBlue has risen anew.

John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in Virginia and the Carolinas: the Piedmont blues.

Crews are still working on President Trump’s controversial renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, coating the basin in what he calls “American flag blue.”

The urban legend called the "Tonganoxie Split" is said to spare Missouri's Kansas City from tornadoes. Scientists are split about its accuracy.

The Trump administration is trying to kill an ambitious plan to decarbonize global shipping.

The podcast "StoryFM" is modeled after "This American Life."