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2012 was a very jittery year — what with the presidential election, extreme weather events and the looming "fiscal cliff." Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan found that her favorite fiction and nonfiction this year directly confronted the atmospheric uncertainty of the age.

President Obama has laid out more specifics than he has before about what he wants in a health overhaul bill. He tried to explain to the public what a reconfigured health system might look like. And he called out those who he said were using scare-tactics to score short-term political points.

How do DJs and MCs coax people onto the dance floor at office parties, bat mitzvahs and weddings? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to an MC, Chris Schultz, about the best tricks for working the crowd.

Here are the athletes who struck an emotional chord, some for better, some for worse, at the Rio Games.

The Democratic presidential candidate had just begun to speak when two women took the stage and seized the microphone.

In the halls of the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, there was shock and disappointment from some in the Texas delegation. But others said Cruz did exactly what Donald Trump would have wanted.

Many Americans are not scared to reuse old clothes for new Halloween costumes.

More than a million people support an online petition calling for President Trump to be banned from entering Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May is criticized for inviting him to visit the queen.

A high school soccer team in Akron, Ohio, seems far away from the world's migrant crisis. That team is made up of refugees, and while they don't speak the same language, the team is getting noticed.

At one caucus, "just four people took the stage, including former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who drew a chorus of boos when he announced his support for Ted Cruz," a newspaper reports.