DAVID GREENE, HOST: We had a pretty strange case of life imitating art here in California recently. A high school teacher named Kyle Holmes wrote a musical with a colleague - a show that explored life in high school, one often driven by grades, tests...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Late last year, 33-year-old Walker Hughes tried a new medication. Instead of helping him calm down, though, the medication made him agitated. Walker had autism and struggled to c...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tomorrow is the deadline for transgender members of the military to get an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Anyone who doesn't make the deadline will have to serve under the gender he or she was assigned at birth or leave th...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The youngest executive producer working in Hollywood makes her big-screen debut this weekend. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, LITTLE) MARLEY TAYLOR: (As Stevie) I wish you were little. GREENE: Little is a comedy where a big and powerful execu...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Voting is getting started today in the largest general election the world has ever seen. India is home to 900 million eligible voters, and polls there are opening this morning. Because of the vastness of the country and with so ma...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The new novel Trust Exercise opens with teenagers attending an elite performing arts high school in the 1980s. There the theater kids form heartfelt friendships and relationships, and then they sabotage them all while they're semi-...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: When a child goes missing, authorities can send out an Amber Alert. It reaches people in the area through their phones, their radios, TV screens and on highway billboards. Authorities can also send out what's called a Silver Alert...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Police can seize someone's property - cash or cars - even if they just suspect it's associated with a crime. And the property owner may not even be charged with anything. The practice is allowed under a powerful tool called civil...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A show about women living and working together in New York City. Yes, it's a formula, but it's one that has turned out some pretty big hits. Cue Carrie Bradshaw's narrator voice - or not, because if you're a woman of a certain ag...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: OK. We're going to spend the next few minutes talking about household appliances. Not so much about how they can refrigerate your food or wash your clothes, but rather, how they help us understand the current trade dispute betwee...
Government Watchdog Flips On Dollar Coin ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Who says a dollar bill doesn't go as far as it used to? A new report from the Federal Government says those bills are lasting more than twice as long as they did at the beginning of the deca...
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. As we deal with more extreme weather around the world and hear more dire reports about the future impact of climate change, you have to wonder, why didn't we succeed in taking preventive measures...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Around the country, people who answer emergency 911 calls are increasingly being trained to give CPR instructions over the phone, but that is not the case in Rhode Island. A 911 call last year about a baby drove that point home. L...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: If allergies have you sneezing your way through spring, you are not alone. Allergy shots are one treatment option, but many allergists are now prescribing some of their patients tablets that can be taken at home. NPR's Allison Au...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK. Imagine space lasers and particle beams being used to zap incoming missiles. Sounds like something out of Star Wars, right? Well, studying the use of those things for real is part of the Trump administration's new defense budg...
