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Former Trump administration advisor Steve Bannon surrenders at the FBI Washington Field Office in Washington, DC on Monday. He's been charged with two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.

Steve Bannon threatens vengeance after surrendering on criminal contempt charges

Former President Donald Trump's onetime top adviser surrendered to federal authorities Monday. Bannon was indicted last week for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Planting the Plains: Tomatoes

Tomato gardens can present unique problems for gardeners on the high plains. They’re one of the most popular vegetables for folks to grow at home, but they come with a number of questions. We’ll dig into answers and cover a few common issues in this week’s episode!

Ina Jaffe

Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."

Taxing The Wealthy: A Historian's Perspective

If the tax cut for wealthiest Americans is allowed to expire, those households making over $250,000 would see their income tax rate rise from 33 percent to 36 percent and those making upwards of $375,000 would go from a 35 percent rate to 39.6 percent. But does it make sense for the tax rate for someone making six figures to be the same as for multimillionaires?

Murray Beats Djokovic To Win Men's Title At Wimbledon

Andy Murray broke Britain's more than seven decade men's title drought Sunday, beating top seed Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

2026 Spring Read: The Joads are Still with Us

The Joads are still with us. They have survived under many different names, but they share most of the same characteristics as the Joads. First, poverty defined the Joads and the other families who had left Oklahoma before the Joads.

The Nazi Party targeted children with mandatory youth organizations, school courses on racial purity, and anti-Semitic children’s books. The Nazi Party's propaganda took advantage of children's ignorance about the Jewish community.

All German Children Must Join

Hallo zusammen -- and hello everyone. I’m Miriam Scott from Amarillo, Texas, back talking to you about the fantastic graphic novel written by my fellow German immigrant Nora Krug.

This photograph shows the second grade class of Monroe Elementary, with their teacher, Edna Vance, seated at the back of the classroom. In 1992 the Monroe School was designated a National Historic Landmark for its involvement in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka court case (1954), which determined that the racial segregation of schools was unconstitutional.

The Influence of Youth

Hi, I’m Valerie a Radio Reader from Topeka and I just finished reading March by John Lewis, a graphic autobiography as part of our Radio Reader series this spring Worth a Thousand Words. So, I’m a history geek and I loved March which is a three-part autobiography of the late senator and civil rights activist John Lewis.

Before the revolution, our main character was a quick-witted, sharp-tongued young lady who enjoyed western fashion and punk rock. After the revolution, like other women in Iran, she was expected to wear the veil, dress conservatively, and reject all western influence.

I was a Westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West

Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from the history department at Fort Hays State University. The books I will be discussing, the two-book series Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi, are the first in our Spring 2022 reader’s theme: Graphic Novels: Worth a Thousand Words. If you love a compelling story and appreciate the power of the graphic novel to convey the nuances of a story, then these books are for you.

One does not imagine a riverbed of sand, but much of the Arkansas, the country’s sixth longest river is sand rather than flowing water.

River, Dunes and Sand Sage Prairie

I'm John Harrington from my retirement location in southwest Washington state for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Readers Book Club.Elizabeth Kolbert begins her latest book, Under a White Sky, The Nature of the Future, with a chapter: “Down the River”

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