STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some people with hearing loss want to change the rules so they can buy hearing aids over the counter at a local pharmacy. These would be stylish earbuds that can help with mild to moderate hearing problems. Here's NPR's Patti Nei...
RAY SUAREZ, HOST: All eyes turn to the Rust Belt where three states that voted for Democratic candidates since the 1980s helped Donald Trump win the election. Wisconsin hadn't given its electoral votes to a Republican since 1984. It was key to Trump'...
RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Next Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots. The widespread and violent uprising erupted after four police officers were acquitted in the beating of a black motorist named Rodney King. The assault was captured...
RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Now let's take a moment to appreciate some of the poetry that's been coming in this month as part of our celebration of National Poetry Month. We've been asking you, our listeners, to tweet 140-character-or-less poems using the hash...
RAY SUAREZ, HOST: Now to a lesser known story about race relations in this country. After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the U.S. looked West to the unresolved conflicts over land rights and sovereignty with the country's native peoples. In the Pa...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Senate is scheduled to vote today on the nation's next agriculture secretary, a full three months after President Trump announced his choice for that job. If confirmed, Sonny Perdue will run a department slated for major cuts...
LYNN NEARY, HOST: As Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory comes to Broadway this spring, across town, a real-life Willy Wonka is whipping up his own new confections. Allyson McCabe takes us inside the darkly, whimsical world of a mysterious...
LYNN NEARY, HOST: Writer Ann Brashares struck gold with her book The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants. The best-selling novel for young adults turned into a series and was made into a movie. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS)...
RAY SUAREZ, HOST: We mentioned earlier in the program that today is Earth Day, and there have been demonstrations for science around the world. In a few minutes, we'll hear from one of the celebrity scientists behind the march, Bill Nye, who has a ne...
LYNN NEARY, HOST: For the past decade, Boko Haram has been killing thousands across northeastern Nigeria, causing millions to flee from their homes. But now there's another conflict in Nigeria that's killing more people than Boko Haram and threatenin...
LYNN NEARY, HOST: And are you looking for the president? (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE) SETH MEYERS: Donald Trump has spent a lot of time as president golfing and tweeting. RANDI KAYE: The president teed it up with professional golfer Rory McIlroy at Trump I...
LYNN NEARY, HOST: And this is The Call-In. For many high school seniors, the deadline for deciding where to go to college is just around the corner, and that means grappling with the price of tuition. We asked you to share your experiences with finan...
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Here in the United States, the Justice Department is putting more pressure on what are sometimes called sanctuary cities. Officials have sent letters to eight cities that receive millions of dollars in law enforcement grants, and...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: OK, file this one under impossible assignments - write a really funny, like laugh-out-loud funny, short story about jihad. Yeah, terrorism and humor are uneasy bedfellows, to put it mildly. But the author Alison MacLeod takes...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the early days of the 20th century, radium factories in New Jersey and Illinois employed mostly women to paint watch faces and clock faces with luminous paint. The paint got everywhere - hair, hands, clothes. They were cal...
