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At the time Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, a new social science was just taking root: economics. Dickens did not like it. NPR visits a high school performance of the play to understand the economic commentary laced throughout this holiday classic.

What's your preference: hagiography or demonization? A biopic about Ruth Bader Ginsburg is blandly positive, while another about Dick Cheney offers an extended, if entertaining, screed.

Director Karyn Kusama has a history of films where women fight back. But Destroyer, despite its transformation of Nicole Kidman, fails to develop a compelling story to support that transformation.

The Dow had its best day since 2009, gaining nearly 5 percent. But jitters over interest rates, trade tensions and turmoil in Washington have still made December a bruising month in the markets.

David Greene talks to Tish Guerin, mental health therapist for the Carolina Panthers. She's the NFL's first in-house therapist — meaning she's in the building just like any other Panther employee.

After lawsuits and pushback from Harper Lee's estate, the beloved 1960 novel is now a play. But Atticus Finch looks and sounds a little different than he did in the book.

If you had any doubts about how good TV is these days, just take a trip back 50 years to see what America was watching in 1968.

In the 1940s, the U.S. government used census data to locate and wrongfully incarcerate Japanese-Americans. Some are now speaking out against plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Anak Krakatau, whose partial collapse is blamed for triggering Saturday's tsunami that killed at least 430 people, remains active — spewing ash over a large area around the Sunda Strait.

"There's some risk that people will look at 2018 and say, 'Well, nothing happened; that means we're OK,' " said one computer security expert. "Unfortunately, that's not the case."