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Lending money to energy companies can be pretty profitable, but if oil prices drop enough, the threat of bank defaults becomes real, Portales Partners analyst Charles Peabody tells NPR's Scott Simon.

In a rare Sunday session, the Senate voted to reauthorize the bank. Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Members want to move beyond the protest hash tag. They met over the weekend in Cleveland with other advocacy groups to talk about how to push for real change in police departments and beyond.

A NASA-sponsored education program called "Story Time From Space" films astronauts reading aloud children's books from space. The rocket carrying equipment for the project exploded last month.

In a frank new memoir, soprano Deborah Voigt reveals her troubles with obesity, alcohol and bad relationships, along with her many triumphs in opera houses the world over.

Here, you can find the Cowardly Lion's mane, the designs for Scarlett O'Hara's drapery dress, and many other artifacts that reveal the history of the movie biz.

In April 2013, the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1,100 workers employed in the garment factories in the building. Now there's an effort to make sure all garment factories are safe.

David Greene talks to Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams of Utah, who supported a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to consider a bipartisan solution. NPR's Tamara Keith weighs in on the issue.

Accounts vary of what happened when students faced an Native American elder in Washington. Steve Inskeep talks to Adam Benforado, author of Unfair who argues camera angles undermine our legal system.

Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Russell Baker has died at age 93. Baker was a columnist for The New York Times for decades and then hosted the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre."