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Historian Shermann Thomas is Chicago's most popular TikTok star, and he got there by telling cool facts about the city he loves. But what does he know about goats? We ask him 3 questions to find out.

Sarah Urist Green, creator of PBS' The Art Assignment, walks through five fun art projects that don't require fancy supplies or talent to create and enjoy.

The winter Olympic Games kick off in China with messages of unity despite realities of division on the ground, while Tom Brady retires and a former coach sues the NFL for racial discrimination.

Thanks to supply chain delays, car shoppers are finding fewer choices and higher prices. But low supply and high demand is paying off handsomely for auto makers and dealers.

Wordle is hardly the first puzzle to take the nation by storm. Scott Simon speaks with A.J. Jacobs, journalist and author, about his new book on the power of puzzles.

The film, made in 1939 or 1940, shows Lowry as a child playing on the beach, with a ship in the distance. She later learned it was the USS Arizona, which sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The SXSW Film Festival joins other canceled or postponed film fests looking for alternate ways to screen their movies.

Jason Epstein, a towering figure in the New York City's intellectual scene who co-founded "The New York Review of Books" as well as the Library of America series, died this week at 93.

Writing letters to strangers in almost all 50 states became an outlet to process anxieties about the pandemic. And a reminder of all the ways we are connected.

As the coronavirus forces people to keep their distance, a humanities program in Oregon brings residents together in an old-fashioned way.