STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's been a big week for President Trump to reverse long-held views. He has darkened his view of Russia and said NATO is no longer obsolete. And then there are his changes on economic policy, which we're going to talk about next....
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: For the seventh time since taking office, President Trump will spend this weekend at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Government watchdog groups want a federal court to force the Trump administration to release a list of visitors to...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's return to the story of the Rohingya. They're a Muslim minority group in Buddhist majority Myanmar. And they have been persecuted by that country's government for decades, so much so that many flee for something better somewh...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: People who produce content on YouTube are bringing in less money. They say their ad rates have gone down by as much as 75 percent the last couple weeks. As NPR's Laura Sydell reports, the producers are caught in a struggle between...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A few years ago, the American screenwriter John Ridley was working in Britain. He learned a bit of history. It was new to him. It felt familiar. It was the story of a time in the 1970s when Britain struggled with that American so...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the most beloved American novels. It's set in the roaring 20s about the messiness of chasing the American dream. For the author Stephanie Powell Watts, something about the novel neve...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The American poet Emily Dickinson is the subject of a new film called A Quiet Passion. The writer and director is Terence Davies. He's best known for his depictions of working-class life in his native Britain. The American actress...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Next, we remember comedian and actor Charlie Murphy. He died yesterday. Murphy grew up in Brooklyn, and after a short jail sentence as a young man, he joined the Navy, where he served for six years. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Later, Murp...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Literary icon and social critic James Baldwin has inspired generations of writers since his death in 1987. But who inspired him? The answer to that question may be found in a new archive of the author's writings acquired by the S...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump's budget proposal is all about hard power, increasing U.S. military might while slashing aid to other countries, the thinking being there are enough problems to deal with at home. But these historic cuts in foreign...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In the last six months, more than 70,000 Rohingya fled across the border into Bangladesh. A warning here - some listeners might find the content of this story disturbing. Reporter Michael Sullivan has been with the Rohingya in so...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: President Trump has reversed his position on NATO. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete. GREENE: He cited efforts by the Alliance to Combat Terrorism as the reas...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump has been meeting at the White House today with the secretary general of NATO. On the campaign trail, Trump questioned the modern-day relevance of the military alliance between Western powers. It was, after all, fo...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: More than a third of the Navajo Nation lacks running water. And in some of the places with running water, people don't want to drink it. They say it smells, tastes funny and looks bad. Laurel Morales of member station KJZZ has more...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: David, you and I are old enough to remember card catalogs at the library, right? DAVID GREENE, HOST: Three words - Dewey Decimal System. MARTIN: Did you go to the library in college? GREENE: Of course I went to the library... MAR...