Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with Poets Laureate Tracy K. Smith and Robert Hass discussing the making of poetry, the position of Poet Laureate and their new books, "American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time" (edited by Smith) and "A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry" (Hass), on the Poetry & Prose stage at the 2018 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with presidential scholar Annette Gordon-Reed discussing "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" on the Special Programs stage at the 2015 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with crime writer Patricia Cornwell discussing "Red Mist,” her 19th Kay Scarpetta novel, on the Fiction & Mystery stage at the 2012 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with young adult and fantasy author Leigh Bardugo discussing "Crooked Kingdom" on the Genre Fiction stage at the 2018 Festival. This post includes prompts for writing and thinking that young readers, families and teachers can use to explore the author and the author’s work—recommended for ages 13+.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discussing "Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom" on the Main Stage at the 2017 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead discussing "Zone One" on the Poetry & Prose stage at the 2012 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with historian Michael Beschloss discussing “Presidents of War” on the Main Stage at the 2019 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with crime and mystery writer Karin Slaughter discussing "Broken," part of her Will Trent series, on the Fiction & Mystery stage at the 2010 Festival.

Our ongoing celebration of the Library of Congress National Book Festival continues with actor and author Neil Patrick Harris discussing "The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third." The event, part of the new year-long National Book Festival Presents series, took place in the Library’s Coolidge Auditorium. This post includes prompts for writing and thinking that young readers, families and teachers can use to explore the author and the author’s work—recommended for ages 8+.

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Rural educator Frank Cyr had the vision and pull to force the nation to standardize the color of the ubiquitous vehicle

Open for visitors, these houses model upcycling at its finest

A prototype deployed in San Francisco Bay imagines the underside of a floating building as an upside-down artificial reef

The graphic designer is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from Cooper Hewitt for her recognizable computer icons, typefaces and graphics

A new book explores the evolution of cartography throughout more than a century of commercial air travel

British product designer Lucy Hughes has invented a biodegradable plastic made from fish offcuts

Architects and planners from the Netherlands are advising coastal cities worldwide on how to live with water

Press release about the Basel Committee publishing consultation paper on revisions to the credit valuation adjustment risk framework, 28 November 2019.

Press release: Basel Committee invites comments on the design of a prudential treatment for crypto-assets, 12 December 2019.

Press release about the Basel Committee launching the consolidated Basel Framework, 16 December 2019.

BIS Press Release - Shaping the future of payments: BIS Quarterly Review, 1 March 2020

Press release about Basel Committee assesses members' implementation of the Net Stable Funding Ratio and large exposures framework, 19 March 2020

BCBS Press release "Basel Committee sets out additional measures to alleviate the impact of Covid-19", 3 April 2020

BCBS Press release "Basel Committee and IOSCO announce deferral of final implementation phases of the margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives", 3 April 2020

BCBS Press release "Basel III monitoring results based on end-June 2019 data published by the Basel Committee", 8 April 2020

CPMI Press release "How fintech can promote financial inclusion - a new report on the opportunities and challenges", 14 April 2020

Press release "Saudi G20 Presidency and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub invite global innovators to solve RegTech and SupTech challenges", 27 April 2020

BCBS Press release "Basel Committee issues progress report on banks' implementation of the 'Principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting'", 29 April 2020

When we find something particularly beautiful or impressive, we literally get big eyes: Our pupils dilate. The pupil controls how much light enters the eye and falls on the retina.

How the PleaseNotSanders movement achieved what NeverTrump never could.

Will a nationalist president be undone by his underreaction to a foreign threat?

It’s the coronavirus election now.

The pandemic has put psychological theories of politics to a very interesting test.

Imagining America between the crisis and the cure.

In a pandemic, it’s not just truth against misinformation. Every choice is an experiment.

The purpose of suffering may be mysterious, but the search for meaning is obligatory.

Nova Scotia students and teachers will not be returning to the classroom this year. At-home learning will continue until June 5, when the province's school year will end.

What would have been Cape Breton University's largest convocation to date is being replaced by an online offering this year because of COVID-19. Some graduating students say it just won't be the same as a traditional ceremony.

Over the 13 hours the mass shooting took place across Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, the RCMP called in resources from New Brunswick to help. However, the two municipal police forces closest to Portapique were not asked to respond directly at any point, CBC News has learned.

Carmen Figueroa Sotelo has been interpreting all the news conferences for English audiences since the beginning of the pandemic in Quebec

Quebec's public health director, Dr. Horacio Arruda, says grandparents under 70 years old are allowed to see and even care for their grandchildren. But the recommendation comes with cautions.

For close to 15 years, Reema Singh has been baking and selling cakes from her tiny shop on Parc Avenue in Montreal's Mile End. Cocoa Locale has been open throughout the pandemic because — well, it turns out that cake is essential.

Here is what you should know as Quebec loosens travel restrictions in some regions.

We're answering your questions about the pandemic. Send yours to COVID@cbc.ca and we’ll answer as many as we can. We’ll publish a selection of answers every weekday online, and also put some questions to the experts during The National and on CBC News Network.

A new breed of food establishment is attempting to do away with food waste entirely

Here’s some culinary inspiration as you wait out a global pandemic

Sheltering in place doesn’t mean you have to give up the best of wine country's offerings

Overcoming scorching heat and little rain, experimental vineyards teach winemakers to cope with climate change

The fifth installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in nationwide shipments of specialities from legendary restaurants