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Walter Mischel had an idea that became a pop culture touchstone. He wanted to see if preschoolers seated in front of a marshmallow could delay their gratification. What did the experiment really mean?

The co-founder of Death Row Records, who is 53, agreed to a plea deal for one count of voluntary manslaughter. He had been facing charges of murder and attempted murder.

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's latest film. Critic Justin Chang calls The Sisters Brothers a "funny, stirring, brutal story."

The deputy attorney general rejected a story that described him musing about secretly wearing a wire or conferring with members of the Cabinet about invoking the 25th Amendment.

Indiana’s Supreme Court filed disciplinary charges against the New Haven City Court and its Judge Geoff Robison.According to the complaint, Robison had…

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Eli Hager, a reporter for The Marshall Project, about his recent piece on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution and Margaret Hoover, host of PBS's Firing Line about the ongoing battle over Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

In a little less than two weeks, Roanoke's Joseph Decuis restaurant is partnering with Nigerian food connoisseur, Nkonye Mwalilu and the Nigerian…

A federal judge in New York has ordered Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to face questioning under oath over his decision to add a controversial citizenship question to the 2020 census.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Ralph Reed, Founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, about how conservatives are viewing the fight over Brett Kavanaugh's supreme court nomination and the sexual assault allegations.