NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

Even as an anti-immigrant president takes office in the United States, migrants are moving north. NPR asks, why?

We look at what the Department of Justice has and hasn't done on war crimes under outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Yossi Mekelberg of Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Program, about the Israeli political response to a negotiated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.