Thousands expected to march in New York to demand that Biden ‘end fossil fuels’ The protest comes after a summer of extreme weather events and just ahead of a U.N. summit aimed at prodding global leaders to cut emissions more quickly. Read more on NPR

Snow, scorpions, Dr. Seuss: What Kenyan kids talked about with top U.S. kids’ authors Newbery prize winners Kwame Alexander, a poet, and Jerry Craft, an author and illustrator, went on a mission to Kenya to encourage reading. The kids learned a lot. So did the authors. Read more on NPR

How Shawn Fain, an unlikely and outspoken president, led the UAW to strike The former union electrician was an underdog in recent UAW leadership elections, but with a tough love approach to auto companies in negotiations, he narrowly won. Now he’s taking the union on strike. Read more on NPR

She chased ‘ego death’ — first in religion, then in parenthood Jia Tolentino has a nuanced perspective on her religious upbringing and her subsequent rejection of that belief system. And then what it meant to become a parent. Read more on NPR

Poison ivy is poised to be one of the big winners of a warming world Rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels give the toxic vine the oomph it needs to grow earlier, bigger and itchier, scientists say. Read more on NPR

Biden is meeting with leaders from Israel, Brazil, Ukraine and the “Stans” this week President Biden will hold a series of talks with world leaders this week around UN meetings — including a first-ever summit with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Read more on NPR

Past impeachments, products of their times, often produced unintended consequences Previous instances of presidential impeachment have each had contexts unique to their own political moments. These considerations have mattered as much as the alleged “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Read more on NPR