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Growing up, they knew something was different, but nobody put a name to it. For many, it took years to get a diagnosis: autism. Finally hearing that word can be a relief.

Nick Bantock returns to his epistolary lovers in a new volume, The Pharos Gate. In an age of instantaneous digital communication, Griffin and Sabine celebrate the pleasures of paper and ink.

In the coming weeks, major brands including General Mills, Kellogg and Mars will start labeling foods produced with genetic engineering. That's all because of a Vermont law set to take effect July 1.

As a teenager in Senegal, Amadou Koly Niang fell in love with jazz. Over 40 years later, he's started a jazz festival to bring the music to his countrymen — with a Senegalese twist, of course.

Each week, some story ideas make it to air while others die at the Weekend Edition pitch meeting. This week's dead pitch is about three new holidays in Tajikistan.

Mike Pesca of Slate's "The Gist" updates NPR's Linda Wertheimer on March Madness.

A group of imams and religious scholars from the U.K. visited Iraq to learn more about ISIS. NPR's Linda Wertheimer asks Sheik Mohammad Umar about what he plans to do with the knowledge.

Religious services in Belgium today are remembering the dead and injured from Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels.

In his Harper's piece, Dan Baum digs into the country's war on drugs. He says we have a long history of instating drug laws to demonize certain minority groups, but "Nixon brought it to a high art."

If you remember a world without Netflix, spare a thought for the North Carolina man who found himself in handcuffs for not returning a VHS tape he rented long ago — "Freddie Got Fingered."