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Once a conservative advocate for the No Child Left Behind Act, Diane Ravitch has had a change in opinion. The former Bush administration education official has written a book spelling out the law's missteps and adverse effects on the U.S. education system.

Milo Yiannopoulos is having a very bad few days. The 32-year-old conservative provocateur resigned from Breitbart, lost a book contract and a high-profile speaking engagement after past remarks resurfaced showing him seemingly praising pedophilia.

A Justice Department report finds that aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales illegally discriminated against job applicants who weren't Republican or conservative loyalists. The report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges.

It's hard to measure the total cost to society of scammers and family members who prey on the elderly. Journalist Nick Leiber reports that a conservative estimate is $37 billion every year. Leiber talks about his reporting for Bloomberg with NPR's Audie Cornish.

Lisa talks with author Adrian House about his new bookFrancis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life. Francis, who lived from 1182 to 1226, started out as a party-boy. At age 24, he underwent a religious conversion, and began a spiritual journey that continues to inspire millions of people throughout the world.

Edmund Roy reports from New Delhi that investigators have released transcripts of the last conversations between the airport control tower at Indira Gandhi International Airport and pilots of the aircraft that collided yesterday. The transcripts have shifted investigators away from air traffic controllers to looking for possible equipment malfunctions.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden is joined by Randy Cohen, who writes The Ethicist column in The New York Times magazine. A listener is concerned about the ethics of using the bcc or "blind copy" function of e-mail. She asks: is it ever acceptable to keep some of your correspondents in the dark about who's in on the conversation?

Last week, Heidi and I briefly chatted on-air about all things phenology and Season Watch! The conversation ranged from what brought me to KAXE, my whippersnapper days as a Long Lake student, and my excitement about the Season Watch newsletter (already in the second month!). Enjoy!

All summer long, NPR's Melissa Block has been asking musicians, listeners and a novelist about their favorite summer songs and what kind of memories they evoke. During those conversations, Block has been flooded with memories of her own. She and Madeleine Brand pick their own summer songs.

The senator launched a nationwide conversation when he challenged the president's pick to lead the CIA. He vowed to keep talking until the White House clarified whether it has authority to kill U.S. citizens on American soil with drones. He finally stood down, but the debate is far from over.

In remembrance of Muhammed Ali, NPR looks back at Robert Siegel's conversation with filmmaker Gary Robinov, director of Raising Ali, about the 50th anniversary of the heavyweight boxing match between Ali and Sonny Liston in Lewiston, Maine. This story originally aired on May 22, 2015, on All Things Considered.

In Roshi Fernando's upper-middle-class childhood home, conversations about sex were taboo. But at 13, already a survivor of sexual trauma, she needed answers. Fernando turned to Maya Angelou's autobiographical I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and, in its pages, found comfort and strength.

Florida legislators are getting ready to name their own slate of electors, under a law allowing state legislatures to step in when the results of a state's vote are unclear. Host Lisa Simeone talks to Steve Bosquet, Capitol Bureau Chief for the Miami Herald, about the conversations going on this weekend in Florida's Republican-controlled statehouse.

Legendary musician Ray Charles died Thursday at age 73. In honor of his great life and legacy, The Tavis Smiley Show is presenting a two-part tribute to Ray Charles. In 2002, Charles did his last NPR interview with NPR's Tavis Smiley. This is the first part of that conversation -- the second will follow on Monday.

As a Montana politician, Ryan Zinke, had a reputation as a conservationist conservative. That's changed since he became Secretary of the Interior. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Outside Magazine's Elliott Woods about his profile: "Ryan Zinke Is Trump's Attack Dog on the Environment."

The new trove of recordings covers everything from the Cold War to civil rights to Vietnam to the U.S. ice hockey team. Listening In, a new book and CD set, includes more than 260 hours of transcribed conversations and 2.5 hours of audio from inside the Kennedy White House.

Want a great conversation-starter with a fan of Latin jazz? Ask, "What's your favorite pairing of conga and timbales?" Many long-standing percussion duos display seemingly telepathic interplay — the intensity of a runaway train mixed with the kind of swing that makes hips move by themselves. Picking five was a chore, but here they are.

In 1826, Frenchman Nicephore Niepce took what's considered to be the world's oldest photograph. Now that picture has been sent for analysis to the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. Jacki talks to Dusan Stulik, a senior scientist at the Getty, about the image and its creator.

The nation of Gabon, which contains some of the most pristine tropical rainforests on Earth, is devoting 10 percent of its land to a system of national parks. The unprecedented plan sets a new standard in African conservation. NPR's John Nielsen reports for All Things Considered.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the longest-serving leader in postwar Italy, resigns to make way for a center-left government led by Romano Prodi. Berlusconi, leader of a conservative faction that took power in 2001, had refused to concede defeat in the nation's April elections.