DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than 2,000 teachers and counting have just had a mountain of student loan debt lifted off their backs. This follows reporting by NPR that exposed a nightmare for public school teachers across the country. In exchange for agre...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: One of the ways that companies keep their workers happy and healthy is to offer health insurance. Not everyone who gets coverage through their job, though, is so happy or healthy for that matter. Deductibles have skyrocketed over...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: And it's time now for StoryCorps. This is Holocaust Remembrance Week, and this morning, we have a story about resilience. After surviving the war, Judel and Pauline Schuster resettled in Buffalo, N.Y., to star...
RUND ABDELFATAH, HOST: Hey everyone. It's Rund and Ramtin here. And before we jump into the show, we want to address something a lot of you have been tweeting at us about. RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST: So NPR made a change to its Web servers that no one ex...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: An animated exploration of female friendship will be available on Netflix this Friday. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, TUCA BERTIE) ALI WONG: (As Bertie) Tuca and Bertie, and Tuca and... TIFFANY HADDISH: (As Tuca) Bertie. WONG: (As Bertie...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Election officials are expecting to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new voting equipment before next year's elections. This is the biggest wave of purchases in over a decade. And it comes at a time of increased concern ab...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are sounding the alarm about a broken promise - not to them but to thousands of translators and others from those countries who worked with American troops. They were told that in exch...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: While health officials have been focused on the opioid crisis in this country, another drug epidemic has emerged. Overdose deaths from methamphetamine have more than doubled in recent years. Treatment admissions are up, and some...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Here in LA, for a hundred years now, generations have eaten at a restaurant that says it is the oldest in Hollywood. Stars, studio heads, writers have settled into Musso Frank's red leather booths to negotiate, gossip, drink and,...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It started with tens of thousands of high school students. Tonight, nine of them face off in the finals of Poetry Out Loud, a kind of spelling bee for poetry. The champion gets fame, glory and $20,000. NPR's Elizabeth Blair went...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: States across the country, including Ohio, Georgia and Mississippi, have recently pushed for bans on early abortions. It's part of an effort to challenge Roe v. Wade and to build support before the 2020 elections. But there's als...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Rodney Robinson teaches at the Virgie Binford Education Center, though yesterday he was at the White House accepting the National Teacher of the Year award. Robinson is not your typical teacher because he doesn't teach at your typ...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Trump administration wants to reopen a controversial storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, which is not something the local population supports. Now, after years of political stalemate on this, private companies are propo...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Filmmaker John Singleton has died after suffering a stroke. He was 51 years old. Singleton wrote and directed the 1991 film Boyz N The Hood, and he made history by becoming the youngest person and the first African American nomin...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Filmmaker John Singleton has died after suffering a stroke. He was 51 years old. Singleton wrote and directed the 1991 film Boyz N The Hood, and he made history by becoming the youngest person and the first African American nomin...
