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Ken Burns and Sarah Burns discuss their new documentary "Leonardo da Vinci."

Notable sites such as the Smoky Mountains and the Lincoln Memorial rounded out the top 10 visited places in the National Park System as visits began rebounding from 2021.

Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the CDC, discusses national health crises and funding cuts.

Michael Lynton and Joshua Steiner discuss their book "From Mistakes to Meaning."

Back in the mid-1960s Bill Strickland was a directionless public school student in Pittsburgh who didn’t really see a path for success for him or his fellow lower class, minority student friends. Then, one day he walked past a classroom and saw a teacher sitting at a pottery wheel — and that moment, and how he responded to it, changed his life. And since then has changed the lives of countless young people not only in Pittsburgh, but around the country and beyond. Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC) takes seemingly disparate elements — adult career training, youth arts education, jazz presentation and botanical sales (they grow orchids) — and combines them into a program with a proven record of positively changing the lives of underserved populations. Bill has helped start an additional 13 centers, including five in Pennsylvania, 6 in other US states, 1 in Puerto Rico, and 1 in Israel.

The Johnson family has called Sanibel Island home since the late 1800s.Owners of Bailey’s GeneralStore, theywatched the business be destroyed by Hurricane Ian but remain determined torebuild forthe community they have long served.

Jake Sullivan discusses how the U.S. can keep up in the race for artificial intelligence.

Rep. Clyburn discusses "The First Eight" and the House vote to end the government shutdown.

A conversation with filmmaker Elegance Bratton and Producer Chester Algernol Gordon about the documentary “Pier Kids,” about the lives and struggles of homeless queer and trans youth of color at the Christopher Street Pier in New York.

The United Nations today sent its top humanitarian official, John Holmes, to Sri Lanka to push for more protection for civilians trapped in the island's war zone. The UN estimates nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed there in the last three months. The conventional war now appears to be in its final stages. But does that mean the island's civil conflict is finally at an end? NPR's South Asia Correspondent Philip Reeves reports.