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Life in a camp for people displaced by civil war illustrates the grim situation in Sudan. Refugees across the border in Chad are afraid to return to their villages in Darfur. Aid groups are preparing for a long stay.

Thailand plans to reopen the resort island of Phuket to vaccinated foreign tourists July 1. It's a bid to jump start an economy and a tourist industry battered by the pandemic. Will foreigners come?

A remarkable new book brings Plato back to teach us how to make our lives matter and why philosophy is here to stay. Commentator Marcelo Gleiser can't recommend it enough.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Jeff Amy of The Associated Press about the large federal immigration raids in Mississippi.

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem, the titular raven repeatedly says, "Nevermore." While he "still is sitting, still is sitting," that raven has moved on to quoth'ing celebrity names that rhyme with "-moore."

Tree sitting has become an increasingly common form of environmental protest. In southern California, a professional tree sitter is occupying a 400-year-old oak, trying to stop the bulldozers. In northern California, a whole sub-culture has arisen to serve the dozens of people sitting in trees. Reporter Jason Margolis climbed a tree near Freshwater, Calif.

The group offered to help resettle Syrian refugees in the U.S., and members received a special case: a family of six with a father badly wounded. It's a yearlong commitment for the volunteers.

Local non-profits say they are stretched too thin to take on extra cases and some community leaders have said more migrants are not welcome.

NPR'S Ailsa Chang talks to author Curtis Chin about his new memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly chats with journalist Michele Norris about her new podcast Your Mama's Kitchen.