'Hold Your Breath,' American Flat Track Racing Mounts A Comeback SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This weekend, baseball playoffs, college and pro football and American Flat Track's season-ending race tonight in New Jersey. Flat track is the oldest form of motorcy...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Today, we are marking an anniversary. Twenty-five years ago this week was the last time the federal gas tax went up. Today, that tax is still what it was in 1993 - 18.4 cents per gallon. And yet the costs of building and maintaini...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: More than two months since an Ebola outbreak was declared in an eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials are still struggling to end it. So far, at least 130 people have been infected. Last week, the Worl...
(SOUNDBITE OF BLINK-182 SONG, ALL THE SMALL THINGS) ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In 1999, the pop-punk band Blink-182 had a certain reputation. For starters, they named their big album that year Enema Of The State. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ALL THE SMALL THINGS) BLI...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now, is geography destiny? Does the place where you were born and raised determine how far you will get in life? Harvard economist Raj Chetty and colleagues recently developed an online tool called The Opportunity Atlas. It i...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Walk into the National Portrait Gallery here in Washington right now, and you will find a painting that has been ripped to shreds and those shreds nailed to the gallery wall. Another one nearby hangs half-loose from its stret...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: If you have been monitoring the rise of populist nationalism around the world, you can now turn attention to Brazil. Brazilians will be voting for their next president on Sunday, and the candidates include Jair Bolsonaro. He's a r...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: So since President Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court back in July, advocacy groups have spent a whole lot of money, nearly $10 million, on these warring TV ads for and against him. Now the attacks - and t...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's continue our series on how China is trying to influence the world. This is being felt across the globe today in many ways. But what China's leaders really want is to shape how the world perceives their country. They've devot...
ADRIAN BARTOS, HOST: Hey, everybody. Just to let you know, this podcast may contain some adult or possibly offensive language. ROBERT GARCIA, HOST: No nudity, though. BARTOS: (Laughter) Unless you're thinking about naked people. GARCIA: (Laughter). B...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This afternoon at exactly 2:18 Eastern time, you can expect to get a presidential alert on your cellphone. It's not exactly from President Trump. Rather, it's a test of a new nationwide warning system that a president could use i...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: China is making investments around the world, which matters because where China's money goes, power may follow. Our next story takes us to Morocco, where China has plans to build an entire city from scratch. It's near Morocco's c...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: One woman found a way to attack high health insurance prices. And that's news because it's hard for any one person to do. If you go to the hospital, the hospital charges your insurer, which passes the cost on to you. And it's har...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Last summer, California became the largest state to abolish cash bail. At the time, Governor Jerry Brown declared that rich and poor alike will be treated fairly. He has long argued the bail system favors the wealthy and punishes...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: One year ago today, a reclusive, high-stakes gambler opened fire on thousands of people at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas. Police say they still don't know why he did it. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. hi...
