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Climate change, economic collapse, coming of age... set in the year 2024. The KPR Presents Book Club discusses Octavia Butler's groundbreaking Parable of the Sower.

We mark Women's History Month with the story of women challenging gender roles within the Mennonite Church. Dr. Lois Barrett and Dorothy Nickel Friesen are the authors of Proclaiming the Good News: Mennonite Women's Voices, a Kansas Notable Book.

Matt Beat is an educator, popular podcaster/YouTuber, and host of the spring discussion series at KU's Dole Institute of Politics, looking at the expanding role of the president.

In honor of Women's History Month, it's a look at the often-underestimated political role of America's First Ladies. Diana Carlin is one of the co-authors of "Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women."

Historian Ian Shaw takes us back to Coffeyville in 1892, the double bank robbery that brought the Dalton Gang to an end, and the surprising story of the gang's lone survivor.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg battles a rare eye cancer and helps save a historic family farm in her latest book, The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety.

Ski buff Sarah Witter will get $6,358 back from her hospital and insurer after a review of her bill following the NPR-Kaiser Health News story about her case.

In Girl, a young woman in Nigeria is abducted by Boko Haram — and that's just the beginning. For nearly 60 years, its Irish author has written about women "both as victims and as fighters, combined."

Despite days of widespread incitement on social media in advance of the insurrection encouraging extremist Trump supporters to assault the U.S. Capitol, law enforcement was unprepared and overwhelmed.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is coming to Salina this month in connection with the launch of her poem "In Praise of Mystery" into space. We'll also hear from Professor Greg Jackson, host of the History That Doesn't Suck podcast and live show, coming to Lawrence this week. Finally, we'll talk politics with Jerry Seib of the Wall Street Journal and visiting fellow at the Dole Institute of Politics.