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Throughline host Rund Abdelfatah brings us the story of the origins of chocolate.

Code Switch explores the racial history of two seemingly opposing movements that inform today's declining birthrates.

In an era of segregation and base stereotypes, Richard Durham brought a different tone to broadcast radio. On Sunday mornings in the '40s, he told nuanced stories of history's great black Americans.

Archaeologists are making finds in the Minute Man National Historical Park that could lead to a new understanding of one of the first battles of the American Revolution.

It's not uncommon for an airline to lose luggage in transit. It's less common to lose children. But that's exactly what happened to Maribel Martinez. Her son was sent to Boston rather than New York.

NPR's Michele Norris talks to dog trainer Ken Licklider about guidelines in the Geneva Convention, the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the War Crimes Act for the use of dogs in interrogations. Licklider trains 400 dogs a year, and 45 of them are now in Iraq. He says the use of dogs is not uncommon in questioning prisoners -- but the way the dogs were used in Abu Ghraib was not common. The Washington Post reports Friday that U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog handlers at the Abu Ghraib prison to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees during interrogations in late 2003.

The long history of presidential pardons includes multiple controversies, including by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. NPR's Audie Cornish goes through the history with law professor Mark Osler.

Hip-hop music grew from the streets of Harlem and the Bronx into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Dan Charnas chronicles how hip-hop producers and entrepreneurs changed the music industry and pop culture in The Big Payback.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution about relations between Iran and Israel.

Vermeer's famous Girl With a Pearl Earring has returned to the United States for the first time since 1995. Very little is known about the painting, so in honor of the visit, The Guardian newspaper asked its readers to come up with a backstory for the mysterious girl.