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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Darryl Richardson, an organizer and worker at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama about the upcoming vote on whether employees there will unionize.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says he isn't ready to write off embattled trade deals with Asia and Europe. But he says a better case needs to be made to U.S. workers who fear their effects.

In her new book, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow invokes Thomas Jefferson to argue for limited government — at least in the case of the military. She argues that sometimes we got to war because we've invested so much in military strength.

The author says he knows his readers think of him as cozy and genteel. So he's decided to shake them up a bit with a new book of two short stories.

Brouwer, one of Latin America's most renowned classical composers, sees music as a form of service. "When [humans] give ... they're doing one of the most beautiful things in life," he says.

When singer-songwriter Mikaela Straus says, "I've never been subtle. I don't think now is the time," she means it.

Across the country, public universities are struggling with abysmal graduation rates. Here's one campus — San Jose State University — that's trying to do something about it.

Relatively speaking, though, it will be close. The rock is expected to whiz by around 4 p.m. ET at a distance that's a bit closer than from Earth to the moon.

More than 5,500 flights were canceled since Friday when airlines started making plans in anticipation of the massive snowstorm that crippled parts of the Northeast. Airlines say they're now operating at close-to-normal schedules.

They got a sneak peek at what could be Earth's ultimate fate in about 5 billion years when the sun reaches the end of its life and engulfs the solar system's inner planets -– including our own.