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Our Planet Money team looks back on the early days of the Internet when buying with one click seemed novel enough to warrant a patent, and how this gave Amazon an advantage.

For three days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — an outspoken critic of anti-Semitism around the world — said nothing about the anti-Jewish chants and Nazi swastikas paraded in Charlottesville, Va.

What does the push for digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper?

Hurricane Maria is pounding Puerto Rico with strong winds and rain. Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske is in San Juan.

The best way to defend everything we really do know, according to science, is to begin by admitting our own ignorance — to ask "What don't you know?" says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

Is it fair to make a connection between the president's comments and the way aid groups and the media portray poverty? Our readers weigh in.

Supernova, volcanoes and all those other explosions are not just awesome sights: They are all essential players in cosmic evolution, says astrophysicist Adam Frank.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced Wednesday a lawsuit against Apple and Google for what he claims are "abusive" practices against software developers. NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Le Maire about the lawsuit and tension between European countries and American tech giants.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with reporter James Palmer about his experience at the World Expo in Kazakhstan earlier this month. The world fair has grandiose architecture, booths from more than 100 countries, music, food and even cameo appearances by world leaders, but it doesn't have a huge audience.

A government shutdown has shuttered state parks and beaches but photos showed the governor and his family enjoying the empty shoreline. "Run for governor, and you can have a residence there," he says.