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Same-Sex Marriage Legalized SUPERSPOT / AuBuchon05210 February 9, 2015Alabama became the thirty seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage today. Couples…

Alabama bars felons convicted of crimes of "moral turpitude" from regaining voting rights. But defining such crimes is subjective. An estimated 15 percent of black adults in Alabama can't vote.

Former President George W. Bush is campaigning for his brother Jeb Bush for the first time this year at a rally Monday night in North Charleston, S.C.

For Presidents Day, here's a look back at the controversy over what to call the country's leader, and how the modest title of "president" won out over anything that sounded too much like a monarch.

College sports rake in billions, but the athletes' pay just covers college costs. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Joe Nocera about Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA.

For the first time in his presidential campaign, Republican candidate Jeb Bush brought former President George W. Bush on the campaign trail Monday at an event in North Charleston, S.C.

Saeed Laylaz, a former journalist and economist, has been a vocal advocate of reform in Iran. He was jailed in a 2009 post-election crackdown, but now runs an auto business. "I am alive yet," he says.

A Harvard faculty member argues in his new book that averages tell us nothing useful about individuals. That has big implications for schools.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death uprooted the presidential election and jogged memories that Barack Obama is a lame-duck president. Republicans are vowing to block any Obama nominee.

Mary Louise Kelly talks to Alison Overholt, the editor-in-chief of espnW and now the new editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine, on becoming the first woman to edit a major U.S. sports magazine.