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When the show cast The Doctor as a woman, it avoided exploring her gender. Now that Ncuti Gatwa is The Doctor, critic Eric Deggans writes, Doctor Who shouldn't avoid his Blackness.

Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's From the Top, considers Elliott Smith to be one America's greatest songwriters. Smith died in 2003 before ever achieving massive fame. O'Riley's latest release, Home to Oblivion, is a classical translation of Smith's work.

The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.

Just how swanky does your office need to be? That's a loaded question in parts of China, where some district governments have built huge, palatial headquarters. There has long been unrest in China over waste and mismanagement in local government. But as the country's economy has expanded, the problem only seems to get worse.

Germany has reversed its decades-long opposition to opening its Holocaust archive. The files contain information on more than 17 million people who were murdered or forced into slave labor by the Nazis.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Living with War, a new CD by Neil Young that includes the song "Let's Impeach the President." He posted the entire album on his website last week for free. It's now on sale as a CD.

The circus will launch a U.S. tour of live shows in September 2023.

Sharon Weinberger's new book is Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld. She looks at some of the wild schemes and fringe science projects under way at the Department of Defense.

Over the weekend, 83 bodies were delivered to the Baghdad morgue. The figure is high even by the grim standards of a venue that has seen thousands of corpses this year.

What is it like to feel electromagnetic energy? Host Debbie Elliott talks with journalist Quinn Norton who has written an article in Wired News about a procedure that involves implanting a magnet in a person's fingertips.