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Director Mike Flanagan was recognized for the tremendous number of jump scares in his new show The Midnight Club. But he isn't a huge fan of them to begin with, he tells NPR.

Our most-read articles gave helpful advice — like how to sit without hurting your back — shocking news and a glimpse of history. And there was one story about — what else? — goats!

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with director Johan Renck for his new movie Spaceman. The movie stars Adam Sandler as a deep space explorer dealing with very terrestrial problems.

Puerto Rico, the nation's sixth-largest school district, is in crisis. It's both uniquely vulnerable to natural disasters and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from them.

Booster's film Fire Island, which he wrote and stars in, was inspired by the Jane Austen novel. The movie is a rom-com about a group of gay friends and explores racism and classism in their community.

Mark Harris says the military worked with Hollywood directors to create movies about the war. His book, Five Came Back, is the basis for a new Netflix docu-series. Originally broadcast March 3, 2014.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

A spokesperson for Jackson said the congressman did not know the people texting about him.

Is it possible to come up with a top ten list of records everyone can agree on? What's been the most popular decade for music? What are the least-heard albums? We found answers to these questions and more in our summer-long poll.