In The Weeks Before Freshman Year, Money Worries Aplenty MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: As the school year gets underway, about a third of low-income, college-bound students won't actually enroll. These are students who were so close. They've graduated fro...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: You may have noticed over the past year or so that food prices at supermarkets have been lower than they used to be. That's been great for shoppers, not so great if you are a grocer or a farmer. NPR's Alina Selyukh reports on the...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are closely tracking a record-breaking Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm ever recorded. And we're still learning about the impact from Harvey in Texas and Louisiana. The health care system has certainly bee...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we're listening this morning to reaction to President Trump's decision to phase out DACA. That is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, allowing people brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay and work h...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In conservative-leaning Nevada, Latino voters showed their power last year by helping deliver the state to Hillary Clinton. If President Trump sticks with his decision to end DACA on top of pardoning Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio an...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: NPR's Joe Palca thinks a lot about thinking - specifically how people come up with the big ideas that change our lives. And as you'll hear in this next story, sometimes the inventor himself doesn't even recognize all the possible...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: More than eight months into the Trump administration, many federal agencies are still missing key personnel. As those positions slowly get filled, one lower-level pick at the Department of Agriculture is stirring up controversy. Am...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Officials in Texas are still trying to confirm whether floodwater has spread contamination from decades-old toxic waste sites. Thirteen so-called Superfund sites were flooded last week. NPR's Rebecca Hersher visited six of them and...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Unions in this country face big challenges. There's a tougher environment for organizing and a White House that has been anything but labor-friendly so far. That's despite promises to bring back manufacturing jobs. NPR's Don Gonyea...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The author Salman Rushdie has set his books all over the world. His most famous novels, Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses, take place in India and the U.K., both countries where Rushdie has lived. His new book is mostly se...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: You may have heard that Hollywood's been having a sad summer. Even though Wonder Woman smashed records, so many other films fizzled that the box office totals are down nearly a billion dollars compared to last summer. In our fall m...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Smiley is back. George Smiley, that is, the spy at the center of some of John le Carre his most popular books. For the first time in 25 years, le Carre has written a novel featuring Smiley. It's called A Legacy Of Spies, and it's...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century has died. John Ashbery won every major prize, including a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, along with a so-called MacArthur genius grant for more than 20 volumes of poetry. He...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the ingredients a successful Broadway show needs is a talented cast. That starts with talented casting directors, the people who can see a Tony-winning star in the making, say, when a performer walks into an audition as a co...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The federal corruption trial of New Jersey's senior senator starts tomorrow. Democrat Bob Menendez faces a dozen charges for his alleged role in a bribery scheme, a scheme involving one of his close friends. The senator denie...
