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There is growing concern in Japan about the dominance of older politicians who lavish welfare spending on older voters, while young politicians are rare. (Story aired on ATC on June 28, 2023.)

Stax Records Co-Founder Jim Stewart built a soul powerhouse from a Memphis, Tenn. label. He died Monday at age 92.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress, writer and entrepreneur Brooke Shields about her effort to embrace aging and how she's trying to help other women do the same.

Saul Bellow, the award-winning author of books including Humboldt's Gift and The Adventures of Augie March, died Tuesday at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 89.

2012 was a very jittery year — what with the presidential election, extreme weather events and the looming "fiscal cliff." Fresh Air critic Maureen Corrigan found that her favorite fiction and nonfiction this year directly confronted the atmospheric uncertainty of the age.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the census, pressured his staff about getting a citizenship question onto the 2020 census months before the Justice Department requested one, emails show.

Kitty Dukakis, the former first lady of Massachusetts and outspoken advocate for people with mental illness and addiction, has died.

As the first night of the Republican National Convention unfolded, Biden sat for a new televised interview, this time with NBC's Lester Holt.

Lloyd Newman, one of the reporters of the documentary Ghetto Life 101, died this week at age 43. The documentary aired on this program almost 30 years ago.

Morning Edition talks to NPR's Scott Horsley and Elise Hu, Sheila Smith of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rep. Mark Takano of California and Kikue Takagi who survived the attack on Hiroshima.