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New business applications are on track to top 5 million, smashing the record set in 2020. Behind some of them are new entrepreneurs who have decided this is the moment to chase their dreams.

NPR's Scott Detrow plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner Harry Yudenfriend from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

From NPR's yearly reading list, Books We Love, three NPR colleagues share their suggestions for reads on current events.

Scott Detrow asks cocktail historian Dave Wondrich about the origins of the Bloody Mary.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Odile Schalit, executive director of the abortion support services group The Brigid Alliance, about how her work has changed since the passage of SB 8.

This week, Democrats pushed through a measure to raise the debt ceiling, to avoid a default on the nation's debt. But how did the debt ceiling become such a hot-button issue on Capitol Hill?

Moehringer grew up with an absent dad and found a home, of sorts, in the bar where his uncle worked. His memoir has been adapted into a film directed by George Clooney. Originally broadcast in 2012.

From NPR's yearly reading list, Books We Love, we hear suggestions for four memoirs that are well worth your time.

Scott Simon talks with Capitol police officer Harry Dunn about some of the revelations coming out of the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The tornadoes in the Midwest last weekend once again exposed the lack of national building standards. Regulations vary greatly from one locality to another.