DAVID GREENE, HOST: As allegations of sexual misconduct continue to come out against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and many others, some are taking aim at the legal process that's helped keep their secrets for so long. While Weinstein has denie...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The writer Jason Reynolds has a new novel out this month. It focuses on a moment of decision that occurs in an elevator where a young man is on his way to avenge the killing of his brother. The novel is called Long Way Down, and J...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, a bold theatrical experiment turns 20. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, CIRCLE OF LIFE) UNIDENTIFIED SINGER #1: (Singing) Nants ingonyama bagithi baba. UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing) Sithi uhhmm ingonyama. MARTIN: When directo...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: So how about a news quiz now? What is the world's third-largest democracy, the fourth-most-populous country in the world, a country with more Muslims than the entire Arab world combined? We are talking about Indonesia. And yet, w...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Canada may have more to lose, but there are American businesses that are also worried about losing NAFTA. Across the country and the border, Jim Zarroli visited Buffalo, N.Y., where NAFTA has created jobs in areas that were...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Silicon Valley goes to Washington this week. Officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter appear before Congress to talk about their social platforms and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. NPR will be br...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Fast-food restaurants use all sorts of promotions to get customers through their doors. Two-for-one deals, toy giveaways, and now, venison. Yes, Arby's is the first major fast-food chain to serve a deer-meat sandwich nation...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's turn now to a related topic. Most people can acknowledge that discrimination has an insidious effect on the lives of minorities from being passed over for jobs to being shut out of desirable housing. Most people are painful...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Our last conversation in Vancouver is with novelist Jen Sookfong Lee. I spoke with her as part of our ongoing series where we talk to regional authors about what the headlines miss about their area. (SOUNDBITE OF RAINFALL)...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Sometimes, you need to leave home to see it clearly. On our recent trip to Canada, we found an American comic who was taking stock of the U.S. from just across the border. ERIK GRIFFIN: It's good to be here, guys, up here i...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Back to a more trying time, Hurricane Harvey, which caused catastrophic flooding in Houston back in August. Now, people often try to console survivors of something like that by saying the damage was to things and things can be re...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It just got more complicated for people from other countries to stay and work in the United States. This past week, the Trump administration announced that immigrant workers with H-1B visas will no longer be able to get the...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Now this Halloween story about bats and spirits - not spooky spirits. We're talking tequila. NPR's Neda Ulaby went to a Mexican bar in Washington, D.C., to research the connection between bats and booze. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE:...
The Scary Sound Machine That Is 'Trying To Set People A Little Bit Off-Kilter' LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Creaking doors, clanking chains. With Halloween just around the corner, we're now going to a guy who specializes in making scary sounds. (SOUNDB...
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Time and again, writer Daniel Alarcon has found himself on those lists that make other, less fortunate writers gnash their teeth. He's been named one of 37 under the age of 36, 39 under 39, and 20 under 40. Alarcon is 40 now. He...
