LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When we have a problem, we're often encouraged to talk about it with a friend, a family member or a professional, like a therapist. But what if the answer is silence? In the new book Sit, Walk, Don't Talk, Jennifer Howd tak...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And here's one more item for your gender politics file. For nearly 50 years, credit for this song - Imagine - has gone to one writer - John Lennon. That changed this week. The National Music Publishers Association announced that...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a changing of the guard on Capitol Hill coming this summer. And no, we are not talking about a new senator or congressperson. We are talking about the new poet laureate of the United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tr...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Let us now consider the donkey. They have been beasts of burden for 5,000 years, and they haven't gained much respect over the millennia. In the wild, burro herds are a nuisance. In captivity, they can be mistreated. But no...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Trump administration is looking into ways to stop Americans from going to North Korea. This comes after the dramatic news this week that an American student detained for more than a year in North Korea returned home in a coma...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump is ordering new restrictions on Americans traveling or doing business in Cuba. That's a reversal from his predecessor Barack Obama who tried to promote more engagement with the island after decades of diplomatic iso...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Since the presidential election, George Orwell's 1984 has become a bestseller again. The dystopian novel in which the main character works at the Ministry of Truth creating fake news for a totalitarian regime has been adapted for...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Gerda Saunders knew something was wrong. She kept getting confused, losing her place in lessons at the University of Utah where she taught. And then, just before she turned 61, Gerda Saunders was given a diagnosis. She has early...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Sometimes we get a story that doesn't need much of an introduction. This one is about an unexpected gift. Here's reporter Erika Lantz. ERIKA LANTZ, BYLINE: Nate Kramer was a tall, quiet college swimmer when he was diagnosed with le...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This Sunday is Father's Day, and NPR TV critic Eric Deggans has been thinking about how he learned to be a father from the dads he saw on TV. ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: My father isn't with us anymore, and I loved him a lot. But he and...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Far-right pundits are seizing on this week's shooting at a congressional baseball practice as an example of what they say is a rise in the left-wing violence in the U.S. Experts who monitor domestic terrorism had been warning about...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: In southeast Alaska, the commercial king salmon fishing season was temporarily shut down this spring. That's because the numbers of wild salmon returning to spawn are at an all-time low, and that's worrisome news for those who ma...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: The land border crossing between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Ysidro, Calif., is the busiest in the world. As Jonathan Levinson reports, among the crowd are students whose families live in Tijuana and who commute each morning to brin...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: OK, this is big news, big news, if you eat ice cream. There is a global shortage of natural vanilla. Prices for vanilla beans are sky-high. NPR's Dan Charles reports. DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Gerry Newman buys vanilla by the gallon....
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Well, it's been 2,000 years since he ruled Rome, but a notorious emperor is causing outrage again. A massive stage has been built amid the ruins of the Roman Forum for a rock opera about Nero. Archaeologists and art historians are...
