GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. Because we're living at a time of pretty intense polarization, a lot of people are angry and confused. And we don't understand how...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about dialogue and exchange. And we couldn't possibly do a show about dialogue without talking about politics. OK, so, Robb, I think - I have this feeling that...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps. Today, a love story that is just ripe for Halloween. Lynne and Greg Houston met 25 years ago. Lynne was working at a restaurant in Buffalo, N.Y. Greg was a mortician at the funeral ho...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story suggests how hard it can be to avoid racial discrimination. The story comes from a new survey of Americans of all races and ethnicities. It's being released this morning by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so we're going to hear now about a young woman whose name is Journey Jamison. A few weeks after she turned 15, she saved a man's life. It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Chicago when a stranger burst through her back door...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is an alarming number. More than 140 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose. That's according to the CDC. And today, President Trump will make an announcement about the opioid crisis, but it's still not clear what th...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Monsanto, the pioneer of genetically modified food, likes to say it is rooted in science, but some leading scientists are accusing the company of denying evidence about the risks of its newest weedkilling technology. NPR's Dan Cha...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep with the deeper meaning of water spinach. It's a staple food among some Asian-American families - they use them in stir-fries and soups - but it's grown commercially in only a few parts of the United States....
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Going to turn now to Kenya, where it is election day, and already, we are seeing a lot of violence. At least two people are dead, and dozens have been injured. Four counties have now delayed voting until Saturday. Now, there were...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: In 1880, the artist Renoir wrote a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsman. He'd been itching to do it for a long time. I'm not getting any younger, the 41-year-old artist wrote, and didn't want to defer...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: People of all races in the United States see racial discrimination regularly, but black Americans report it at the highest rates. This is according to a new survey from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H....
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's White House agrees with Senator Jeff Flake about one thing. The presidential press secretary says she agrees with Flake's decision to quit. The Arizona Republican, a critic of President Trump, announced his depa...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There's not yet a bill for the Republican plan to overhaul the tax code. But the White House already has one of its main talking points. This week, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that American households would get w...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The actress and comedian Amy Sedaris has become famous for her roles in shows like Strangers With Candy... (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, STRANGERS WITH CANDY) AMY SEDARIS: (As Jerri Blank) I was a builder, a loser and a user. SHAPIRO: ......
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we are trying out something new with our Wednesday sports segment. We're taking questions from you, our listeners. This month, we asked, what's been on your mind as you have watched athletes bring social activism onto the fiel...
