NPR/TED Staff

Back in 2015, Chicago's Englewood neighborhood was lined with blocks of houses tagged for demolition. Before they were torn down,...

Data, numbers, algorithms are supposed to be neutral ... right? Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini discusses the way biased algorithms can...

Sea level rise will displace millions by 2100 — and the Louisiana bayous, where Colette Pichon Battle lives, may disappear...

How can we make amends for the atrocities of slavery and segregation? Historian and preservationist Brent Leggs discusses one step...

Anyone from anywhere can give a TED Talk. This hour, we're joined by curator Cloe Shasha Brooks, who leads a...

For millennia, China has taught its citizens to embrace individual sacrifice for the greater good. Writer Huang Hung explains how...

MERS, Ebola, and COVID-19—the viruses that cause these diseases likely have the same patient zero: bats. For researcher Daniel Streicker,...

For Jonny Sun, loneliness felt like being an alien on a distant planet, alone in the universe. But when he...

A century after the 1918 flu, we see similar patterns in the ways we've responded to COVID-19. Laura Spinney reflects...

At large corporations like Disney, many employees can barely get by. Filmmaker and Disney descendant Abigail Disney says that's unacceptable....

At age 55, Elizabeth White lost her job--and her entire safety net--in the 2008 recession. Her story isn't uncommon. White...

Acquiring debt and buying on credit has been the American way since the 1920s. Financial advisor Tammy Lally describes the...