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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, about the proposed border security compromise in Congress.

The underwater world of Bikini Bottom, where the action takes place, reflects Hillenburg's deep interest in marine life. The show has been highly successful over nearly 20 years.

Historically black colleges and universities remain a gateway to higher education for millions of students. But how are the institutions and their students weathering difficult financial challenges?

Austen Ivereigh, author of a new biography of Pope Francis, says the media have misjudged the pope's comments on abortion and homosexuality — but that Francis is a radical in other respects.

Men have expressed confusion about how to behave out in the dating world now that gender roles have shifted significantly. Do you open the door, pay for the date, pull out the chair?

Dr. Vivek Murthy tells NPR: "The reality is that loneliness is a natural signal that our body gives us, similar to hunger, thirst. And that's how important human connection is."

Barkskins follows two loggers' stories over three centuries. Proulx says the forest is the hero of her book, but it's also "one facet of larger things, like climate change and the melting of the ice."

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Wall Street Journal reporter Khadeeja Safdar about Deutsche Bank agreeing to settle a lawsuit accusing it of facilitating sex-trafficking by late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The Commerce Department says the U.S. gross domestic product grew at just 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2007. That is the weakest growth rate in five years for the GDP.

Senate Republicans say they want to change the $900 billion stimulus bill, not bury it. They say they want more of the bill to deal with the problem that put the economy into a tailspin in the first place: Housing. They plan to offer amendments to push down mortgage rates and double the tax break for home buyers to $15,000.