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University of Hawaii students sit together to show the ethnic differences of Hawaii's population in 1948.

Hawaii As 'Racial Paradise'? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past

Professor Ellen Wu writes about how the mythology — and the history — of Hawaii as a multicultural melting pot may affect its chances of hosting the Obama Presidential Library.

Fighters from the Islamic State hold a parade in Raqqa, in northeastern Syria, displaying equipment captured from the Iraqi army. The group has declared a caliphate, or a single Islamic state, in the parts of Syria and Iraq it controls. This undated image was posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday.

Have The Islamist Militants Overreached In Iraq And Syria?

After sweeping military victories, the group now known as the Islamic State is demanding loyalty from all Muslims. Like other radical Islamist groups, they may be alienating potential supporters.

The power of the verses by 14th century Persian poet Hafez draws tourists to his tomb in Shiraz.

In Iran, A Poet's 700-Year-Old Verses Still Set Hearts Aflame

The 14th century Persian poet Hafez remains venerated in Iran, even though he wrote of wine, romance and other topics not necessarily welcome in today's Islamic Republic.

In The Rolling Hills Of Galway, Spirit Of W.B. Yeats Lives On

Saturday marks the 150th birthday of William Butler Yeats, one of the 20th century's greatest poets. In far western Ireland's County Galway, Yeats found inspiration in the people and landscape.

Iraqi security forces and allied Sunni tribal fighters evacuate an injured woman after she was shot by the Islamic State in Ramadi on Jan. 4. Iraqi forces have pushed ISIS out of much of Ramadi, but daily fighting is still taking place in the southeast part of the city, where ISIS is using civilians as human shields, according to the Iraqi military.

In Shattered Ramadi, A Weakened ISIS Fights On Behind Human Shields

Iraq recently celebrated a victory against the Islamic State in Ramadi, a city just 70 miles west of Baghdad. But NPR's Alice Fordham went there and found there's still heavy fighting.

A horse and mules thresh wheat in Spain. The World Organisation for Animal Health has adopted the first set of global standards to ensure equine welfare.

Working Horses Can Now Breathe A Whinny Of Relief

The World Organisation For Animal Health has adopted its first standards to provide good care for equines — part of a broad agenda at its just-concluded powwow.

Mike Stamp is one of six Washington DSHS social workers assigned to locate foster youth who run away

The ‘Locator’: Tracking Foster Runaways In Washington

Washington is under court order to keep foster youth from running away. So the state now has a team of “locators”--social workers whose job it is to...

Daughters Of Hanford: The Lone Woman Physicist Who Worked On Hanford's Secret Reactor

In 1944, the U.S. pinned its hope on a secret project to win World War II. The government was counting on the B Reactor at Hanford in southeast...

Reaction To Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Abortion Restrictions In Texas

David Greene talks to Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that opposes abortion, about the Supreme Court decision to strike down restrictions on abortion in Texas.

The Burden On Black Teachers: 'I Don't Belong At Your Table'

Researchers at The Education Trust went on a listening tour to better understand the struggles of black teachers. Among the themes they encountered: bias – from principals, colleagues and parents.

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