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Biographer Jonathan Eig says Ali had "the spirit of a rebel." Linguist Geoff Nunberg reflects on the vanished styles and language of the hippie era. Cartoonist Roz Chast draws a "love letter" to NYC.

Once a technology that treats emotions as data becomes pervasive, we may soon find that data is the only aspect of emotion we come to recognize or value, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

A Tribe Called Quest frontman is the first artistic director for hip-hop culture at the Kennedy Center. He discusses the cultural levity of his appointment and the current political climate.

Trump wants sweeping immigration changes as part of any legislative fix for the program that allows DREAMers to stay in the U.S. Top Democrats say this "fails to represent any attempt at compromise."

The deal agreed to last month traded increased border security for permanent protections for people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The White House has announced new demands.

At least 12 people are dead and 30 others missing, many of them children. Meanwhile, the situation in refugee camps in Bangladesh grows dire.

Children are returning to school after missing years of classes when ISIS controlled the city. Iraqi forces retook Mosul over the summer. "We want you to succeed," a principal tells schoolchildren.

A church in Utuado, in Puerto Rico's central mountainous region, is open for a community reeling from the effects of Maria — including deaths from landslides, lack of electricity and blocked roads.

In a speech in Kentucky on Monday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said the old rules aimed at reducing carbon dioxide were tantamount to declaring war on the coal industry.

Wildfires forced residents in the wine country north of San Francisco to flee. At least 10 people have died and Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in eight counties.