Jeff Bridges (shown with Gil Birmingham) plays an aging Texas ranger investigating a series of small-town bank robberies in Hell or High Water. Lorey Sebastian/Lionsgate hide caption

Anthropologist Robin Dunbar says our social networks are limited to about 150 connections. Courtesy of Robin Dunbar hide caption

Are there ways to make traffic better in our cities? Video still courtesy TED hide caption

Computer scientist Avi Rubin speaking at TEDxMidAtlantic. Chris Suspect/TED hide caption

Ellie Dahmer holds a photo of her late husband, Vernon. StoryCorps hide caption

Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it has pretty much always driven older people crazy. Renee Klahr hide caption

Bang Bang says of Rihanna, "She just always has a super special place in my heart because she's done so much for my career." Courtesy Bang Bang/Bang Bang hide caption

Lin-Manuel Miranda performs on Hamilton's opening night in August 2015. "It was an enormous challenge to do that show every night," he says. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption

Kayla Wilson with her mother, Wendy Founds, in Little Rock, Ark. Morgan Feigal-Stickles/StoryCorps hide caption

Actor and activist Jesse Williams says he believes his efforts are making a difference but gives credit to those who inspire him, among them black women and the black LGBTQ community. Melissa Kuypers /NPR hide caption

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling dance in the musical, La La Land, critic David Edelstein's pick for the best film of the year. Summit Entertainment hide caption

Fred Taylor Jr. served as a kind of "apologist-in-chief" for Southwest Airlines. StoryCorps hide caption

Annette Bening and Lucas Jade Zumann play a mother and son in Mike Mills' film, 20th Century Women. Mills says the film was inspired by his own life. Merrick Morton/A24 hide caption

Judy Charest and Harold Hogue recounted the story of their fateful meeting for StoryCorps in Nashville, Tenn. Mia Warren/StoryCorps hide caption

NPR's Steve Inskeep interviews President Obama in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Dec. 15. The president said Democrats have "ceded too much territory" to Republicans in local races. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption

The president tells NPR that Donald Trump should work through Congress, and says if the new president overturns his own executive actions "that's part of the democratic process." Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption