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This week Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave major speeches on the economy, but most of the attention was on their gaffes and controversies.

The Iowa caucuses are two weeks from Tuesday. And the biggest challenge for GOP presidential candidates is still ahead: getting their supporters to turn out on a cold January night. Get-out-the-vote efforts could make all the difference in a race that now appears to be up for grabs.

Over the last three decades, the gap between the very rich and the very poor has grown exponentially. In the yawning middle is a group for whom it's getting harder and harder to stay in place economically. Host Audie Cornish speaks with two generations of a middle-class family that face drastically different financial futures.

Fresh Air's resident linguist explains how the magic of metonymy gave "occupy" its symbolism — and how the word implies a culture that made a bunch of protests feel like a movement.

An enormous chalkboard appeared in Washington, D.C., last weekend with a heading that read: "Before I Die..." Passersby were encouraged to write down items on their bucket lists — things they would like to get done before they die. Sophie Miller and Dan Meredith erected that board, and they tell us why they did it and about the massive response they've gotten.

Under CIA Director Gina Haspel, the spy agency is reaching out in very public ways it has never done before, from social media to superhero conventions.

The soulful artist behind a number of 1970s hits died Monday of heart disease. He created all of his hits in a 14-year recording career before walking away from the music business.

Sam Rainsy of the now-banned Cambodia National Rescue Party was barred from boarding a plane from Paris to Thailand. His deputy was detained in Malaysia. Both risk arrest if they enter Cambodia.

Thousands of asylum-seekers in Mexico are waiting their turn to ask U.S. border officials for asylum. A volunteer group of doctors and nurses travel to Tijuana weekly to attend to their health needs.

The two flavors are mainstays on nearly every Western dining table, but their dominance was far from inevitable. In fact, their dual reign resulted from a "weird accident of history."