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How does a post-industrial city manage property that no longer generates tax revenue but still needs the grass cut? One entrepreneur says he has a solution: He's buying up 1,500 empty city lots and planting thousands of trees. But where backers see a visionary proposal, critics see a land grab.

Japan's economy was a world beater in the 1980s. But the country has now gone through two tough decades and there's no end in sight. What lessons might it hold for the U.S. as it confronts the "fiscal cliff"?

The normally strident National Rifle Association remained largely silent for nearly a week after the Newtown shootings. That ended on Friday, with a news conference that the group promised would unveil ideas to make sure such a thing would not happen again.

Over the past quarter-century, millions of people have poured into theaters to see the stage-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Now it's opening in movie theaters; director Tom Hooper tells NPR's Melissa Block that it was a total labor of love.

Award-winning poet, Lawrence Welsh, talks about receiving the 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for his most recent publication, Begging for Vultures.

Well-known guitarist, singer/songwriter Breezy Cade debuts his new novel, “Walks On Wind” – a combination of local history, mysticism and science fiction.

Donald E. Moss, Ph.D., UTEP Professor and Researcher in Neuroscience for 35 years, talks about the incredible true story detailed in his new book titled…

Part 2 of our interview with Donald E. Moss, Ph.D.

We've invited the Saturday Night Live and Portlandia star to answer three questions about journalistic retractions inspired by the Poynter Institute's list of the best/worst journalistic errors of 2012.

Our panelists predict, what will America look like after we go off the Fiscal Cliff?