LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In portrait art, every aspect - from the subject to the pose to the painter - is a deliberate choice. And it's no different when depicting pregnant women. Up until the early 20th century, that choice was often to hide a pre...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's trial puts American institutions on display. He has an institutional role to play as president, just as people like Adam Schiff or Mitch McConnell have institutional roles in Congress. Americans, over time, have...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: For the first time in four years, the average lifespan of an American increased - slightly. That's according to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The improvement was driven largely by decline...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Winter driving can be unpleasant and dangerous. It can mean long hours for people who operate snowplows. Driving a snowplow in Montana has given Justin Horak lots to sing about. Yellowstone Public Radio's Rachel Cramer introduces u...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Uber is testing a new feature in California that allows drivers in some cities to set their own fares. It is part of an effort to give drivers more control and bolster the argument that they truly are contractors. From Sacram...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The costumes are among the stars of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the hit Amazon TV series about a young comedienne in the late 1950s, early '60s. Everybody wears these colorful period-perfect outfits. They're so amazing, even I not...
NOEL KING, HOST: The band Harvey Danger hit it big with this song. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, FLAGPOLE SITTA) HARVEY DANGER: (Singing) I'm not sick, but I'm not well. And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in hell. KING: That is Flagpole Sitta. It was all over rock radi...
NOEL KING, HOST: During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton's campaign emails were hacked. So in 2020, campaigns are on the defense to prevent that kind of thing from happening again. Here's NPR technology correspondent Shannon Bond. SHANNON BOND, BYL...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: What happens when insurance companies deny coverage for medications? It doesn't just force people to pay for drugs themselves; a survey finds that for almost half of Americans, when insurance denies payment, they do not get the d...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We've been starting this new year off with some music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CELESTE AIDA) ANDREA BOCELLI: (Singing in Italian). (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, SICKO MODE (FEATURING DRAKE)) TRAVIS SCOTT: (Rapping) Made this here with al...
NOEL KING, HOST: When you hear a big idea from a presidential candidate, you often want to ask them, wait, how exactly would that work? We've been giving undecided voters a chance to sit down with candidates and go off script, asking them those quest...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Most of the public gets one camera angle on Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial. It's a video feed controlled by the Senate recording studio. The cameras are operated by government employees. They're generally pointed squarely...
'Interior Chinatown' Puts That Guy In The Background Front An SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Willis Wu is often seen as a generic Asian man in a restaurant or the background of a crime scene on a television drama called Black and White. You kind of know the show...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When I met Tom Railsback a few years ago, he told me he'd worried about going to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Peoria in the fall of 1974. Tom Railsback of Illinois was a middle-aged Republican congressman from the middle of a s...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Hank Bolden is an 83-year-old undergraduate at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. He's also an atomic vet - one of thousands of soldiers exposed his secret nuclear weapons test during the Cold War. Connecticut Public Radio's...
