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Not much is known about the life of the rabbi and Talmudic scholar Hillel, who lived 2,000 years ago, but his teachings have shaped Judaism. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin's forthcoming book Hillel: If Not Now, When? argues that Hillel has as much to teach the 21 Century as he did his own.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: reality television, Eurovision compilations and more.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the recent beating death of a Chicago teen a "wake-up call" that would lead to action. Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan held a news conference with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. The two Cabinet officials were sent by the White House to Chicago after the killing.

With their podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim, hosts Zahra Noorbakhsh and Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed want to shake up labels. Ahmed says, "We're taking the good and we're sort of re-imagining it for ourselves."

NPR's Life Kit has tips on how to manage lending money to friends and loved ones.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with The Athletic's Meg Linehan about Angel City FC, the National Women’s Soccer League team, becoming the world’s most valuable women’s sports franchise.

Texas Democrat asks President Biden to drop out of the race to stop "an authoritarian strongman."

Russian missiles and drones hammered Kyiv in an overnight attack, the largest aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital since the war began more than three years ago.

Cuts to USAID have consequences big and small, reaching all the way down to high school science fairs in the U.S.

Now that the CDC has finally issued final guidelines for the updated COVID-19 vaccines, at least some of the confusion on eligibility should clear up.

House Speaker John Boehner pitched his Republican caucus Thursday on the idea of pushing back the debt limit deadline from next week to late November.

A fatal incident on the ice during a professional hockey game in the UK led to an arrest this week, and raises questions about the line between a terrible accident and a criminal act.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kathleen Belew, an assistant history professor at the University of Chicago, about signs of paramilitary and white power groups' presence at the Capitol.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Paul Luehr, a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, about what happens when texts message get deleted.

Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.

The R&B group's breakout stars released new solo albums on the same day — one leaning out of the spotlight while the other confronts viral fame.

In his new book, The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro argues that we're not spending enough screen time with our kids.

The White House released a record of his July call with the Ukrainian president. But it's not quelling Congress' move toward impeachment as the president had hoped.

For one family who lost both their mother and their father to the coronavirus, palliative care clinicians helped them face "the awful, awful truth."

In the HBO series, The Deuce, Maggie Gyllenhall plays a prostitute in Times Square, who's different from the other prostitutes because she doesn't have a pimp. Gyllenhall talks with NPR's Kelly McEvers about the show's grimy look at the sex trade in 1970's New York and her roles as an actress and a producer.