MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There once was a radio host who liked April Poetry Month the most, she thought it would be neat for others to tweet their rhymes in the form of a post. OK, so you know our director Liz Baker wrote that. Anyway, her creative outpo...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, some hard questions about racism, questions most of us don't really want to ask. Is that something baked into the fabric of American life, a matter of personal preference? Is it just the crutch of ignorant people?...
NPR poetry Comes When You 'Write What You Know' MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Let's take a poetry break. It's time now for some more of your Twitter poems in honor of National Poetry Month. Here are two that deal with the old saying write what you...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Mass protests may become a fixture of Donald Trump's presidency. Yesterday, activists marched in cities across America to pressure the president to release his tax returns and highlight potential Trump family conflicts o...
LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When Forbes Magazine first ranked the 400 richest Americans back in 1982, there were 13 billionaires. On the latest list, every single person on the Forbes 400 is a billionaire. America's ultra rich - you know some of th...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The president is again spending the weekend at his Palm Beach Resort, Mar-a-Lago. The cost of moving a president and presidential staff around each year easily runs into the millions of dollars. And this president is on track...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Federal money for science has been shrinking. Under the Trump administration's budget proposal, it could be squeezed even further. And when scientists are under financial pressure, they sometimes cut corners in ways that can hurt u...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The New Yorker magazine is famous for its cartoons. For 20 years, Bob Mankoff has been the gatekeeper. Next month, he gives up his title as The New Yorker's cartoon editor. Mankoff is a man obsessed with humor. He has written many...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Connections are important, especially in business. Think of the adage it's not so much what you know, it's who you know. A new movie centers on a guy who takes that notion to extremes. It's called Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tr...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Fast cars, attractive people, a stone face, monotone Vin Diesel - must be the new Fast And Furious movie. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS) VIN DIESEL: (As Dom) I think I found my team. CORNISH: This week, the eighth i...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Out on a lonesome highway in the Texas Hill Country, the night sky is awash with stars, the Angus cattle quietly ruminate, and there is a cafe where food and music are made from scratch. It's a seafood place 90 miles west of A...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The National Museum of African-American History and Culture here in Washington has many artifacts connected to slavery. For one woman, visiting the museum this week was a literal homecoming. Isabell Meggett Lucas was born and raise...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Tuesday is Tax Day, and we're going to zero in on those tax questions dealing with health insurance. Health care reporter Julie Rovner will help us out with that in a few minutes. First, this reminder of why health care factor...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest campus shooting in American history. Survivors' and victims' families will gather at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg to remember the 32 people who were killed. Many others were injured...
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: In Nashua, N.H., Michael Treadwell lives on the streets. He has schizophrenia. And as New Hampshire Public Radio's Emily Corwin reports, when people like him don't get the help they need, local taxpayers can end up with a heft...
