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Some argue that looking at data about a charity's effectiveness is the best way to make your pick. But there are drawbacks.

It's hashtags vs. Robert Mugabe. Social media is proving a new kind of challenge to Zimbabwe's strong-armed autocrat.

Writing her own story, with support from peers, helped Cassandra Steptoe shed the shame she felt in her diagnosis and find psychological healing instead. Now she's inspiring others to do the same.

For International Women's Day, we're spotlighting women and movements that have made an impact around the globe.

NPR's Melissa Block talks to Neyla Pekarek, formerly of The Lumineers, about her debut solo album, Rattlesnake, which was inspired by an actual frontierswoman named "Rattlesnake Kate."

New research by the World Resources Institute finds evidence of a growing crisis in the supply of urban water.

He started as a mineworker and became a prominent anti-apartheid activist and a tycoon. Now he's leading the nation.

Well, maybe not quite as excited as the U.S. seems to be.

An experimental program in Rwanda tried to teach men to do more chores, listen to their wife instead of bossing her around and get involved in raising the kids. Did it work?

Struggling to resolve racial tensions in South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg exclusively shared with NPR his "Douglass Plan," named for the famed abolitionist. He compares it to the Marshall Plan.