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The rate of inflation has cooled for two years, and not everything is going up in price. So why does paying at checkout still cause such heartburn? What gives? NPR set off to answer that question at the most popular retailer in the United States.

Political cinema can sometimes be too highbrow for a mass audience. But in the 1960s and early '70s, French-Greek director Costa-Garvas showed that films with a revolutionary message can also be popular.

Judgement Day for the merchants of death

In California, policymakers have long warned that continued development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real estate interests have lobbied hard against any development restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

The incoming president and his Bitcoin-loving acolytes want to turn the government into their personal ATM.

Ain’t Gonna Play Acoustic Guitar No More (1965), 40 Acres and a Mule Was Working Fine (1865), ‘Your Heritage Is My Slavery’ (2000)

How does exercise benefit health? Molecules called exerkines partly regulate its effects and provide therapeutic targets to mimic the benefits of exercise.

Who are the criminals? News coverage of five former or current presidents gathered for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter never hinted that hideous wars of choice along with massive increases in weapon sales had marked the administration of each.

A Connecticut judge ruled that the lawsuit claiming Poland Spring mislabeled its water and deceptively marketed it can go forward.

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists