MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk comics now. They've gotten new life in recent years as new creators have added fresh characters and perspectives. But some Native Americans say they still find it hard to see themselves reflected in these characters. A...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now it's time for more Twitter poetry. Here's one from Dave Paulsen in Minnesota. DAVE PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical reptile. Take heed, though, little dairy product. You...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump regularly spotlights violent crimes committed by immigrants in the country illegally. His administration has pledged to deport more of these so-called bad hombres. That outrage is increasingly bubbling up in commun...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Republicans' failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act opened up an opportunity for advocates wanting to expand Medicaid. They see one last chance to get billions of federal dollars for their states and cover hundred...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the new film, The Zookeeper's Wife, Jessica Chastain plays Antonina Zabinska. It's World War II. And along with her husband, Antonina runs the Warsaw Zoo. She has a way with animals, but she's leery of humans. (SOUNDB...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Writer Omar El Akkad spent much of his career as a journalist covering the many revolutions and wars in the Middle East for Canada's Globe and Mail. His debut novel, though, is set in a United States that is riven by con...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The United States entered World War I a hundred years ago this week on April 6, 1917. The war is remembered mostly for its brutality. But as NPR's Greg Myre explains, it was also a moment when emerging technologies conve...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: If you want to go for a spectacular bike ride this weekend, you might consider heading to Yellowstone National Park. Every spring, 50 miles of the main thoroughfares are open to bicycles only. And Montana Public Radio's...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The town of Whiteclay, Neb., has a population of 14 people. But its four liquor stores sell 4 million cans of beer each year, mostly to residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation, which is officially dry and right across th...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: We have an update now on a story that we've been telling chapter by chapter for two years. It began in Izmir, Turkey, a city on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, where I met a teacher from Syria in his early 30s. Monzer Omar sat w...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's April 1, but this is no joke. It's time for our annual Twitter poetry call out. In honor of National Poetry Month, we are inviting you to tweet us your poems with the hashtag #NPRpoetry. And here's a haiku to kick it off (re...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As the story has been told over the years when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was born, a street prophet told her family this child will be great. This child is going to lead. But he didn't really say it that way. What he really said was...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In the Marais district of Paris, in a kitchen that clatters with copper cutlery and cooks, Chef Solange Gregoire and her husband, Chef Gael, hover lovingly above a cast-iron pot that bubbles and simmers with an aromatic steam. SOLA...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Karen Neulander's a political consultant who is brilliant, determined and tough, but then she's diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. That's a crisis that this capable professional who usually smoothes the path for others can't f...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Frank Gehry has designed world-renowned buildings, including the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. Recently, the Getty in LA acquired a vast archive of Gehry's work that spans three decades of the...
