GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today decisions, ideas about how we make them and why we tend to agonize over them because at some point, we all have to make a decision about something. It can be as trivi...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Rachel, I'm taking us back to high school for a minute. Our big problems are not detention, not homework. Instead, they are demons, the undead and vampires that need to be slayed. (SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAY...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been two weeks since the Oscars, time enough for the film industry to reset from prestige mode to blockbuster. This week, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to the screen in Kong: Skull Island, a film that left critic Bo...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The third season of American Crime premieres this Sunday on ABC. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN CRIME) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) When they were running crack in the city, they didn't have any Narcan. They let the Mexica...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And those are sounds from the city of Seoul this morning, celebration in the streets following a historic ruling in South Korea that has ousted that nation's president from office. The highest court in the country upheld a vote by...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An Arizona county is taking a long second look at its cooperation with the federal government. Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, was overseen for years by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He promoted himself as the country's toughest s...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: North Korea's missile tests and the United States' response have stirred debate among North Korea's neighbors. The latest missile shots into the sea were seen as a provocation. And a day later, the United States said it had start...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: As shootings and homicides continue to devastate some Chicago neighborhoods, advocates are advising people to treat it as a public health crisis. Other cities like New York have embraced this model and say it's helped reduce gun vi...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Keggie Carew's father, Tom Carew, was known as Lawrence of Burma and The Mad Irishman. In her new book Dadland, we find out why. It's a memoir that combines espionage and war stories with reflections on parent-child relationships....
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Congress is seeking evidence to support President Trump's claims that the Obama administration tapped his phones during his campaign. Trump has offered no such proof. His aides have pointed to news articles, including an apparent s...
STEVE INSKEEP, host: The latest installment of our series 50 Great Voices features a man who recorded under the name the Notorious B.I.G. People knew him as Biggie Smalls, or Biggie. He was murdered when he was 24 years old. Yet he's one of the most...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we're going to go now to the Mississippi Delta to a town with a unique history and a storied past. It's Mound Bayou. It was founded in 1887 by former slaves - founded with a vision to be a self-reliant, autonomous all-black co...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now let's ask a question raised by new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Here's the question - are diets becoming passe? NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that as the number of Americans who are overweigh...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump is clamping down on illegal immigration. And the state of Alabama might offer some clues about what exactly this will mean. In 2011, it passed what was called the toughest immigration law in the country. There were...
x DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today is International Women's Day. And some women in the United States are marking it by joining a protest called A Day Without A Woman. It is a strike aimed to highlight the economic power of women as well as ongoing problems...
