RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Protestants have a major birthday to celebrate this year. It has been 500 years since Martin Luther brought about the Reformation. But many Protestant denominations are concerned about a modern phenomenon they see every Sunday -...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: What we can eat can influence more than our waistlines. It turns out, our diets also help determine what we smell like. Evolutionary scientists wondered whether this might play a role in attracting a mate. And as NPR's Allison Au...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Right from how smells can make us more attractive, let's turn to a multibillion-dollar global industry that is devoted to making you look more attractive, teeth whitening. Just walk into any pharmacy. Go online. You'll see them -...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The film The Glass Castle is based on Jeannette Walls' best-selling memoir of the same name. It's the story of her family's tortured upbringing - moving around the country, living in poverty with parents who are obsessed wi...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The effects of climate change move slowly, but they are broad. WEEKEND EDITION is taking a look at these effects around the world. NPR's Jane Araff went to the ancient city of Alexandria in northern Egypt, where rising sea...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra will have a guest conductor this week. Dennis Prager will conduct Haydn's Symphony No. 51 at an orchestra fundraiser. Dennis Prager's day job as a conservative talk show host, though, has...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in last year's election is heating up. This week we learned that the FBI conducted an early morning raid at the home of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. Here's w...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A giant, inflatable chicken which looked oddly like President Trump appeared outside the White House on Wednesday. It created a sensation and then disappeared. With her curiosity piqued, NPR's Vanessa Romo went to investigate. VANE...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Great scandals often begin in passion or ambition, but how do you explain the Bettencourt affair in France? Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in the world, is now locked off from the world by Alzheimer's. She's heir to the L'O...
(SOUNDBITE OF NOCTURNAL ANIMAL NOISES) SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This summer, we're visiting some of the more extraordinary camps around the country. Today, we head to the border of Detroit and Hamtramck, Mich., where neighborhood artists and young people b...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Most people go to the fair to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl or eat funnel cakes, but not our Planet Money team. Robert Smith and Kenny Malone traveled to the Ohio State Fair to learn the secret art of selling people things they might not...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The late Jim Henson is the subject of a new permanent exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Henson created the Muppets. And unlike some other collections devoted to his work, this one makes the case for Hen...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the best-known depictions of autism in a major film is Dustin Hoffman's character in the Oscar-winning 1988 film Rain Man. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, RAIN MAN) DUSTIN HOFFMAN: (As Raymond) Maple syrup was supposed to be on the tabl...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: And the U.S. territory of Guam is in the spotlight after North Korea said it's studying whether to launch a missile toward the island. President Trump responded this way. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Le...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The governor of Virginia has declared a state of emergency in Charlottesville after a rally to protest the removal of a Confederate statue turned violent today. White nationalist demonstrators and counter protesters have been facin...
