GUY RAZ, HOST: What do you think explains, like, this force inside of us that, you know, like that sometimes compels us to, you know, to speak out? ADAM GALINSKY: Yeah. I mean, I think it's something that psychologists call moral conviction. We are a...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Howard Norman's new novel is set in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the core of the plot of My Darling Detective is a photograph and an auction. HOWARD NORMAN: (Reading) The auction was held at 5 p.m. in the street-level drawing room of...
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Parents, consider this your trigger warning. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BARNEY THEME SONG) UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN #1: (Singing) Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination, and when he's tall, he's what we call a dinosaur sensation. SIEGEL...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Before Comedy Central's celebrity roasts, before American Idol's Simon Cowell, before Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, one man abused people on TV and in clubs like no other. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: La...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's Friday, so it's time for StoryCorps. Today, we will meet two sisters from Somalia. Fatuma Abdullahi and Maryan Osman were little girls when their parents died in Somalia's civil war. They're teenagers now living in Utah. Ann...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's a fact that tells you something about a country. It's the leading cause of death. The leading cause is different in different nations. In the United States, for example, it's long been heart disease. But as heart disease t...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The state of Arkansas has a death penalty problem. The state is rushing to execute death row inmates at an unprecedented pace this month before its supply of lethal drugs expires. The expiration date is important because it's gett...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And you know if NPR had a life-or-death beat, this reporter would definitely be on it. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST MONTAGE) RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: Sepsis is the leading cause of death in the hospital... Recommend low-dose CT...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Advocates for medical marijuana are in Washington, D.C., this week for an annual conference. But supporters of marijuana legalization are uneasy these days. That's because the new U.S. attorney general has been making tough comme...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. So we are getting closer and closer to Tax Day. Sorry to break that to you. And Democrats on Capitol Hill are seeming more and more determined to get President Trump to release his tax returns. NPR's Peter Overby report...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: A hundred years ago today, the United States entered World War I. Congress voted to declare war on Germany. By the time it ended, there had been a staggering death toll - more than 17 million people worldwide. The soldiers who did...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And the Fox News Channel is once more under siege. Last summer, the ouster of chairman Roger Ailes during a huge scandal was intended to calm the place down. Yet, multiple scandals have erupted at Fox. As NPR's David Folkenflik re...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Battlefield weapons have been getting smaller and more powerful as technology has improved. But now the military is trying to figure out whether some modern weapons actually pose a danger to troops. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports tha...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Uganda is now home to the largest refugee camp in the world. So what does that tell us? It's actually a sign that the situation in neighboring South Sudan is getting worse. Here's NPR's Eyder Peralta. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: Back i...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So there's a new brand on the Internet that is going to take over some of the old ones, I mean, I guess old in Internet years at least. Yahoo and AOL are now under an umbrella company called Oath. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports thi...
