SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For most of their history, superheroes were white guys. That's changing. Alongside Superman and Captain America, there are more and more superheroes who are women or people of color or both. But this week, a Marvel Comics executive...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And now on to some Hollywood history. Carl and Rob Reiner, father and son, became the first father and son to leave their hand and footprints in front of Hollywood's famous Chinese Theater. NPR arts correspondent Mandalit del Barco...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Venezuela's economic crisis helps make the government there highly unpopular. Hugo Chavez, the late leader, and his socialist allies used to win nearly every popular vote, but the current president, Nicolas Maduro, is fast losing s...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some books can sweep you away in the first sentence. Sarah Dooley's new book Ashes to Asheville begins with a riff that includes sisterhood, death, cute pets and saucy widows. Let's get the author to read it. SARAH DOOLEY: (Reading...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: NPR's Alison Meuse is in Beirut. She's been talking to people in Syria who oppose the Assad regime, and she's been asking them about last night's airstrikes. ALISON MEUSE, BYLINE: The barrage of Tomahawk missiles came as a surpri...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Let's take a break from the news and go to the movies. For the first two months of this year, a teen romance called Your Name was the biggest film of 2017, bigger even than Lego Batman. It's a Japanese anime film that made more t...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Global diabetes rates have been increasing dramatically over the past 20 years. In Mexico, 14 percent of adults now suffer from diabetes. It is, in fact, the leading cause of death there, and it's having a huge impact on Mexico's h...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week marks the centennial of U.S. entry into World War I, a conflict that shattered empires and cost millions of lives. Here's something else it did on the American home front. It made us a less German country - culturally....
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tax season is here. The filing deadline is next Monday. This year, tax day is the 18th, not the 15th. And when tax season heats up, so does scam season. NPR recently received a recording - a real-life phone call between a woman in...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: So far this year, cold weather has frozen blueberries in the south. Rains have drowned lettuce in California. And in Michigan where tart cherries are big business, growers are preparing for a long battle with extreme weather. Pet...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to Venezuela, where an economic crisis has brought thousands of people to the streets. The demonstrations have been growing since the country's supreme court tried to nullify the Congress there. Food and medicine are in short...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today ideas about Speaking Up. Can you introduce yourself please? ESRA'A: Yeah. So my name is Esra'a, and I am from Bahrain. RAZ: Esra'a asked us not to use her last name b...
GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, Speaking Up, ideas about what it takes and when you know it's time to say something. JAMES HANSEN: As the ocean gets warmer that melts the ice shelves that come out...
GUY RAZ, HOST: On the show today, Speaking Up. We're talking about when people choose to speak up and what happens if they don't. So when Clint Smith was a high school teacher, he wanted the students to understand the importance of speaking up and th...
GUY RAZ, HOST: Have you ever experienced hatred or - I mean, have you ever - I don't know. Has anybody ever said something to you because of who you are, because of your faith that has just been so incredibly hurtful? DALIA MOGAHED: Yes (laughter), a...
