KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The world of 17th-century Holland is filling up several rooms of Washington's National Gallery of Art right now. It is a world captured in paintings by Vermeer and some of his contemporaries. And they show well-to-do Dutch, mostl...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: President Trump is facing a lawsuit for blocking people from his personal Twitter account. This week, some First Amendment advocates joined the suit, and they are making a novel argument about the right to communicate with the pr...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Donald Trump won white, working-class voters by a bigger margin than any Republican presidential candidate in modern history. Cultural and economic grievances were a big part of that. A new survey by NPR, the Robert Wood John...
Actor Greta Gerwig Stays Behind The Camera In Her Solo-Directing Debut 'Lady Bird' KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Greta Gerwig is mostly known as an actor. But for her latest comedy, she stayed behind the camera. The movie is called Lady Bird. She wrote and di...
NOEL KING, HOST: Some artists are larger than life, and some are even bigger still. Actress, singer and comedian Jennifer Lewis stars in the hit ABC show, Blackish, as the irascible and hilarious grandmother, Ruby Johnson. Jennifer's career spans dec...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Drew and Jonathan Scott struggled for years to break into the entertainment industry. And then after a heap of setbacks, the brothers decided to open a real estate services company to pay the bills as they continued trying...
NOEL KING, HOST: Over the past two decades, director Richard Linklater has made a name for himself as an indie filmmaker's indie filmmaker. Linklater has a style that captures the messy, awkward and sometimes tender rhythm of real life and real conve...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Anne Fadiman's father was the very model of the modern, cultivated man. He quoted Shakespeare and Shaw, recited Homer and Sophocles, made clever wisecracks and pointed puns. He was a longtime judge of the Book of the Month Club, th...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Dan Rather's career has entered a new phase. At age 86, he's speaking to millions of people every day not at CBS where he anchored the Evening News for more than 20 years. Instead, Facebook has given him a new audience where he wri...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The actress Krysten Ritter is best known for strong and complicated characters like the superhero-turned-detective Jessica Jones, the star of her own Netflix series. Ritter was raised in a small Pennsylvania farm town, whic...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now it's time for All Tech Considered... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SIEGEL: ...And the next installment in our occasional series, Is My Job Safe? With advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, more people are asking that questi...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Honolulu today marks the end of an era. This will be the last time United flies the iconic Boeing 747. Now, when the 747 first started carrying passengers in 1970, this jumbo jet was...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We now know that the man who killed 26 people in a tiny Texas church on Sunday had been court-martialed and discharged from the Air Force for assaulting his wife and child. And authorities say that Devin Patrick Kelley sent threat...
NOEL KING, HOST: And now, a story about what happens when two people experience the same thing. One person sees the experience as discrimination, the other does not. According to a new survey from NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health an...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep in Beijing amid thousands of people in this city's Tiananmen Square. The Red Wall at the front of the Forbidden City is just behind me here. President Trump comes to this city this week. He's going to meet C...