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The new book, China Hand, details the life of John Paton Davies, a U.S. diplomat who served in China during World War II. After China fell under Communist control, Davies was repeatedly investigated for Communist ties. Davies never finished writing his autobiography — he died in 1999. Steve Inskeep talks to his daughter Tiki Davies.

A video that caused a sensation in Mexico for using child actors to highlight social and political challenges has been removed from both YouTube and the website of the group that produced it. Despite being online for less than a week, "Niños Incómodos" was viewed more than 1.8 million times.

If bail is granted, Zimmerman's attorneys are likely to ask for him to be allowed to move out of the area for his own protection.

On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Host Michel Martin speaks with researcher Irwin Redlener, who found that children suffered mental and physical stress from the spill. Martin also checks in with Byron Encalade, whose oyster business is struggling.

Protests rocked Bahrain last year and forced the cancellation of a Formula One Grand Prix race. But the country's rulers say they will not give in to demonstrators, and this year's race, set for Sunday, will go ahead as planned.

Public media's teamed up and created the American Graduate Initiative to try and tackle the high school dropout crisis in our country. In New Mexico, 2…

An odd story and two weird questions on the New York state English exam are causing laughter and consternation.

The pace of political reform in Myanmar has surprised many and, coupled with recent election results, has led to an easing of economic and political sanctions by the West. But the reforms are by no means irreversible, nor are the poor nation's myriad problem easily solved.

The 2009 North Carolina law allows convicts to challenge death sentences by proving with statistics and other evidence that their trials were tainted by racial bias.

Since its first publication in 1976, The Education of Little Tree has sold more than 1 million copies. But the book and its author are not what they seem. That's because before Forrest Carter became a Cherokee novelist, he was Asa Earl Carter, a Ku Klux Klan organizer and segregationist.