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Richard Shulberg was a musician, a radio personality and by all accounts, an unrepentant comedic force in the lives of many who knew him. Most knew him by his stage name, Citizen Kafka. Shulberg died last Saturday at the age of 61 after a series of illnesses.

As Americans shift to voting by mail, political parties are investing heavily in making sure voters know their options. In Wisconsin, Parks and Recreation actors joined Democrats in this effort.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jennifer Epps-Addison, president of the Center for Popular Democracy, about Democratic gains in Georgia fueled by community organizers.

For the first time since World War II, there's a chance that horse racing will be canceled this year in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The state's thoroughbred industry is mired in debt and tangled in a fierce political battle in Albany. Without a $17 million dollar bridge loan from the state, the season could be called off, devastating the region's economy.

In the age of Internet media and 24/7 cable outlets, more than 20 million Americans still get a significant amount of their news from small-circulation daily and weekly newspapers. For many of these mom-and-pop papers, business is booming — so much so that hundreds of papers have been targeted by growing national chains.

The COVID-19 vaccine rollout faces another bottleneck: Pfizer and Moderna may be unable to fulfill contractual promises to deliver 100 million doses a piece to the federal government by March 31.

Gavin MacLeod, the veteran supporting actor who rose to fame on The Mary Tyler Moore Show before going on to even more success on The Love Boat, has died at age 90.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Martha Jones, author and professor of history at John Hopkins University, about her role in writing a letter of solidarity in The Root for Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Benicio Del Toro and Don Cheadle play low-level gangsters who get sucked into a into a major corporate conspiracy in Steven Soderbergh's engrossing new film.

President Obama issued a proclamation making April 12 "Equal Pay Day." NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin about what's behind the pay gap between men and women.