SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A crime novel set in Ramallah has been outlawed there and in other Palestinian cities. The Palestinian Authority's attorney general banned the book. He said it contains indecent terms that threaten public morality. Now the author's...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: To Cairo now for a story about another collector and collection. Amgad Naguib gathers ephemera - incidents of daily life like ticket stubs or photographs, letters, even disposable toothbrushes. He says these items tell the real his...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Two documentaries told in two very different ways. First, All This Panic takes a fly-on-the-wall approach with its teenage subjects - no narration. And then God Knows Where I Am teases out its story as if it were a mystery novel....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Donald Trump won the support of the National Rifle Association and many gun owners by opposing any limits to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. Here he is at the NRA convention last May. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's the oldest form of transportation - walking - and new evidence shows it's getting more dangerous. A new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association shows the number of pedestrians killed in traffic jumped 11 percent las...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump may take a less extreme approach to rewriting NAFTA than his fiery campaign rhetoric suggested. A Trump administration document is circulating on Capitol Hill, and it suggests the White House wants the trade agreeme...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The noted astronomer Carl Sagan had a saying. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Last week, a physician made the extraordinary claim that he had an effective treatment for sepsis, sometimes known as blood poisonin...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Bear with me because we're going to spend a minute or so talking about statistical analysis, you know, the kind used to analyze data and predict who might win March Madness or an election. But what if we used data to look at liter...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 2007, after decades insisting he was innocent, Jerry Miller of Chicago was finally vindicated. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: There aren't too many people happier today than Jerry Miller. Hugs abound. (APPLA...
John Lydon On Anarchy, Politics And 'Mr. Rotten's Songbook' RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Does the name Johnny Lydon ring a bell? OK, what if I gave you the name of his alter ego, Johnny Rotten? (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, GOD SAVE THE QUEEN) SEX PISTOLS: (Singing) G...
