RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The opioid epidemic has hit Huntington, W. Va., very hard with an overdose rate 10 times the national average. Documentary filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon chose Huntington as the setting for her short doc about America's opio...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Foxtrot is Israel's most celebrated film of the year and perhaps its most controversial. It opens in theaters in the United States this weekend and tells the story of one family trying to grapple with the loss of their son at war....
A Sister Shares 'Horrible And Wonderful' Memories Of Her Brother's Life And Death SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Stephanie Wittels Wachs got a phone call from her loving and accomplished brother just three days before her wedding, in which he shared some surpris...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: A defiant President Trump declared today, trade wars are good and easy to win. Trump may have fired the opening shot this week when he announced plans to impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. In this battle, as with...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus recorded her first album in a day with some friends from her hometown of Richmond, Va. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, I DON'T WANNA BE FUNNY ANYMORE) LUCY DACUS: (Singing) I don't want to be funny anymore. SHA...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Academy Awards are this Sunday, and that has got us thinking about movie performances that get absolutely no Oscar recognition. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM) CHANG: We're talking about the work of stunt players, the men and women who fly...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: On Sunday, Hollywood will once again celebrate its own at the 90th annual Academy Awards. Typically by this point we have a general idea of who's favored to win in the major Oscar categories, but this year it's still unclear which...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: As students across the country protest gun violence, schools have reacted in different ways. Some have tried to crack down, even threatening to suspend the protesters. But many colleges are sending students the opposite message. Th...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's Friday, which is when we hear from Story Corps. And today, we have a conversation about the biggest story out of Hollywood in many years - indeed, one of the bigger stories in America in recent years - t...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: On the Oscars telecast Sunday night, a presenter will read the names of five nominees for the best foreign language film. Missing from that list is one highly acclaimed film, Foxtrot from Israel. And critic Bob Mondello says that's...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The comedy world is hurting today. A month after announcing he'd been diagnosed with cancer, the comedian Barry Crimmins has died. Crimmins was one of the reasons Boston's comedy scene burned so bright in the 1980s and '90s. ARI SH...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Almost two years ago, actor/writer/musician Donald Glover turned the TV world upside down with his ambitious dramedy Atlanta. The show's second season debuts tonight on FX, and NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says it takes Glover's ambi...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Just how deep are the ties between Russia and the National Rifle Association? The story of one Russian official offers some insight. His name is Alexander Torshin. Back in 2015, an NRA delegation traveled to Moscow and met him. N...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: After a White House meeting on guns left Republicans scratching their heads, the Senate is not going to take up gun legislation next week as it had hoped. But when it does, a new NPR/Ipsos poll might provide a road map for what Am...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: A couple hundred people gathered in the White House's East Room today. They came to get an update on the Trump administration's response to the opioid crisis. President Trump declared the crisis a public health emergency back in Oc...
