New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Gints Zilbalodis about his new Oscar-nominated, animated film, "Flow." ...

At a pivotal time for Europe and NATO, Germany holds elections on Sunday. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Constanze Stelzenmüller of the Brookings Institution about the stakes of the election.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant recap a week of intense international hockey and discuss a scary diagnosis for a rising NBA star.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with novelist Allison Epstein about her new novel "Fagin the Thief," which imagines a backstory for the character from the Charles Dickens book "Oliver Twist." ...