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Child care has long been seen as a problem for mothers to solve. Now employers see it's their issue too. In Alabama, a carmaker is working with a tech company to help employees find and pay for care.

The Pap smear has dramatically decreased rates of cervical cancer, but testing too often has a downside, too. Many women say they aren't yet ready to follow new guidelines and skip the annual tests.

Israelis and Palestinians have now been living cheek-and-jowl in the West Bank for decades. NPR's Steve Inskeep visited both communities to sample their views in this enduring conflict.

A woman has gone missing in the mountains of southwest China. Her American sister, an NPR listener, recruits Shanghai Correspondent Frank Langfitt to help find her as part of his free taxi series, "Streets of Shanghai."

African-American teen Trayvon Martin was shot while unarmed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who claimed self-defense. For one reaction to the shooting, host Michel Martin speaks with GlobalGrind.com's Michael Skolnik, who is white and says the only thing that made Martin look suspicious was the color of his skin.

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep and NPR reporters give a "close read" of President Obama's State of the Union speech. In some cases they are checking facts. In others, they are asking what some parts of the speech really mean.

The Census Bureau announced that 15 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2011 — a slight drop from the year before. But income disparities continue to grow. Host Michel Martin talks with Harvard professor William Julius Wilson, author of the 1987 book The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is open about how she benefited from affirmative action, how she came to terms with her diabetes and the "out-of-body experience" of being appointed to the high court. Sotomayor spoke with NPR just before the release of her new autobiography.

The 8,000 graves of Happy Valley cemetery in Hong Kong tell the island's untold early history through the lives of pirates and prostitutes, missionaries and merchants. NPR correspondent Louisa Lim's mother devoted a decade to chronicling the last resting place of Hong Kong's earliest settlers.

It's been more than two months since the Nigerian school girls were kidnapped, and they're still missing. Host Michel Martin learns more about what the government is doing to find them.