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In the city of Detroit, after the unrest in the 1960's, the flight of many to the suburbs and the decline of businesses, many neighbors are finding a way to survive financially, through bartering.

Mary Louise Kelly talks to Jim Waterson of BuzzFeed UK, who's in the British Virgin Islands, about Hurricane Maria, which made landfall in the Caribbean island of Dominica as a Category 5 storm.

Our Planet Money team looks back on the early days of the Internet when buying with one click seemed novel enough to warrant a patent, and how this gave Amazon an advantage.

Hurricane Maria is pounding Puerto Rico with strong winds and rain. Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske is in San Juan.

After the reopening of the Southern border with Mexico for vaccinated travelers, U.S. communities along the border hope for a boost in commerce, and families look for a return to normalcy.

Ford died at home in Charlotte, N.C. She lived through the 1918 pandemic, the Great Depression, both world wars, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and the COVID-19 pandemic.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alice Hill, senior fellow for climate change policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, about how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the environment.

Beijing passed a sweeping new law to crack down on dissent in Hong Kong. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to opposition leader Lee Cheuk-yan about the future of the pro-democracy movement.

The virus is the enemy, NIH Director Francis Collins said. "It's not the other people in the other political party." Omicron, which could soon become the dominant strain, is extremely infectious.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with tech journalist John Hendel about attending the Consumer Electronics Show this year and what the future of tech looks like.