STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have an update now on the business empire that President Trump still owns. His personal interests, which stretch from New York to India and beyond, include the Trump International Hotel Tower in Toronto. It opened in 2012, a 6...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's approval ratings are the lowest on record for a new chief executive. But there's some evidence that a different number is going up - the dollar value of the president's commercial brand. NPR's Jim Zarroli report...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The painter David Hockney once said, quote, it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. A major retrospective opens in London tomorrow at the Tate Britain museum, giving vi...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Great Hall at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has a way of humbling people and hushing you to prepare for some quiet contemplation. For the next few weeks, though, through March 9, it's also the starting point for...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Tonight on FX is the debut of a TV show called Legion. It's about a super-powered man who may or may not be mentally ill. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says it has the feel of a superhero show for people who don't really like superh...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Irwin Corey described himself as the world's foremost authority. The famously eccentric comedian was kidding of course, but it took a special sort of person to accept a national book award on behalf of the reclusive author Thomas...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Joyce Carol Oates is also taken aback by the relevance of her fiction these days. She's written dozens of books, won piles of literary prizes, and she joined our co-host Ari Shapiro to talk about her latest novel, which begins wi...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: At this point, it's probably safe to call it a trend. Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, is the latest work of classic dystopian fiction to hit the Amazon Bestseller lists since the presidential election. It joins...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Mexico has taken its share of punches from President Trump. He's accused Mexico of sending rapists and criminals to the U.S. And he's threatened to make it pay for a border wall. Well, all of this has left Mexicans confused, angr...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Making decisions about how to honor a loved one who has died is a heart-wrenching task, and there's not a lot of mental or emotional space to think about comparison shopping. There is a federal regulation on the books called the...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Properly vetted refugees can enter the United States, at least today. That's because a judge temporarily blocked President Trump's ban on travel for refugees and people from seven countries. Today, judges from a federal appeals c...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We do not know yet if Obamacare will be replaced. As NPR's Pam Fessler reports, one community facing uncertainty are the homeless. PAM FESSLER, BYLINE: Joseph Funn was homeless for almost 20 years, and his body took quite a beatin...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So biologists have invented a new way to track wild animals. They pick up on traces of their DNA. It's kind of like wildlife CSI. NPR's Rae Ellen Bichell tells us that this is helping some states track down a destructive invader....
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The legal battle over the executive order means refugees and local resettlement agencies in the U.S. are facing uncertainty. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang checked in with some refugee groups in Pennsylvania and has this report. HANSI LO WA...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Small town America deserves much of the credit for putting President Trump in the White House. Rural voters in swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania helped tip the election in his favor. Those small towns that once relied on...