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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with historian Jill Lapore about how the testimony from Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday fits into the larger American culture.

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard from Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, and Kavanaugh, who denied the allegations.

Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh each gave riveting testimony in the daylong hearing called to look into Ford's accusation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both were teenagers.

Moving ahead without more FBI scrutiny could hurt the reputations of the Senate and the Supreme Court, the ABA said. President Trump later ordered the agency to reopen the case for one week.

The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate's international reputation has taken a severe beating over her government's failure to halt atrocities against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.

Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake provided the critical vote to move the nomination out of committee while proposing the limited investigation. The Senate held a procedural vote on the nomination Friday.

Pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, often win patents for incremental changes with debatable value. Now there's a twist involving an opioid addiction treatment.

People may call Bruce Springsteen "The Boss," but high-powered women are the ones really in charge. In this musical parody, Springsteen songs are rewritten to be about women in the business world.

Do you know your myths from Aeneas to Zeus? In this final round, every answer contains a mythological figure.

In 2009, Drew Philp bought an abandoned house in Detroit and worked with neighbors to fix it up. He discovered the power of 'radical neighborliness' to rebuild his struggling neighborhood.