AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: For years, conservative publishers have thrived. Their readers have flocked to buy books aimed at taking down the party in power. Now that Republicans control Washington, these publishers are rethinking their strategy, and their...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When the writer Ian Johnson made his first trip to China in the mid-1980s, he says religious life seemed to be dead. There were few worshippers left in a country that once had a million temples. Now he says the country is experienc...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Actor and comedian John Leguizamo is a veteran of the one-man show. At 52 years old, he's now in the midst of his sixth solo production, and we caught up with him one afternoon heading into his pre-show ritual at the Public Theat...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we are remembering a musician today whose band gave us these wise words. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, LOVE STINKS) J. GEILS BAND: (Singing) Love stinks. Love stinks, yeah, yeah. GREENE: Yeah, that's The J. Geils Band. And their leader-...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump has said a lot over the years about illegal immigration. So last year when reports surfaced that his modeling agency had hired women without documents to do fashion work, it generated a lot of controversy. Now that...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's a whole lot of excitement at this year's Border Security Expo in San Antonio. Here's why - the White House is asking Congress for billions of dollars to fund more federal agents and many miles of a border wall. That could...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: About two-thirds of adults get their news on social media. That's according to the Pew Research Center. During the presidential campaign, we saw how easily tech can polarize our country. But can it also help bring people together...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to China, where a strain of bird flu has killed a record number of people this year. Scientists on the frontlines of this deadly strain are more worried than ever about its potential to spur a global pandemic. NPR's Rob Schmi...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to talk now about something called lunch shaming. That's when kids are publicly identified as being from families that can't afford to pay for school lunch, maybe they're identified with a wristband or a hand stamp. B...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There's big news today about one of the most common forms of cancer. An influential federal task force now says patients and doctors should discuss screenings for prostate cancer. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has more. ROB...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's say you think you're having a stroke, and you call 911 for an ambulance. In many cities, there's a good chance that a fire truck will arrive instead with a full fire crew including a paramedic. But as Monica Eng of member s...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Passengers on a United Airlines flight out of Chicago were treated to a jarring sight yesterday. Security officers forcibly removed a man from a plane who refused to leave an overbooked flight. Fellow fliers captured the scene on...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The newest album by Ray Davies features him in a reflective mood. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG) RAY DAVIES: (Singing) Girl, I want to be with you all of the time. INSKEEP: Ray Davies. His name looks like Davies to Americans. He's riffing o...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Today the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and the arts were announced. Big papers like The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were all honored for their work. But the prize for investigative reporting...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A few weeks back, we invited our listeners to tell us about IT-related emotional breakdowns. We asked NPR's Alina Selyukh to read all the messages, and one of them stuck with her. It came from a mother distraught by a loss of an...
