RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Good news for all of us who are fans of NPR's Invisibilia - the show about human behavior returns today with a new season of stories about the invisible forces that shape our lives. Today, co-host Hanna Rosin explores what skydiv...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: OK, I'm going to throw out a few names and let you guess why we're talking about them. Here we go. Frida Kahlo. Chloe Kim. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. Filmmaker Patty Jenkins. OK, if you're thinking what an impressi...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story is about a line of cancer research that could potentially help a huge number of people, people like Michael Robertson. MICHAEL ROBERTSON: I'd been having unidentified symptoms for a few months, but it was during a...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The opioid crisis began in rural America. And in the beginning most of those who were overdosing were white. Since, the crisis has spread to urban areas and it's now affecting African-American communities in cities across the cou...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Armando Iannucci has created some of the most biting political satire on radio, TV and in the movies of the past 25 years. His latest is a political spoof about the demise of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, TH...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: And I'm Ari Shapiro, not to be confused with Arie Luyendyk spelled slightly differently. I'm talking about The Bachelor, the 16-year-old reality TV show in which women compete for a marriage proposal. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Yes,...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: American steelmakers are excited about President Trump's proposal to put 25 percent tariffs on imported steel. They say the tariffs will help level the playing field against competitors in China. But in one Michigan county that v...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump's push for tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is driven in part by competition from China. The United States still produces most of its own steel, we should be clear. But the industry has faced pressure from ch...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Federal and state investigators say some generic drugmakers have been fixing prices. Nineteen companies have been named so far in a scheme where investigators say consumers were overcharged for a long list of medications. Charles...
Justice Department Sues California Over Impeding Immigration Enforcement MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Late-breaking news out of California tonight - the U.S. Justice Department is suing the state and its top officials. The federal government says Califor...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're in Dallas, Texas, today to mark the first primary in the country ahead of the fall midterm elections. Democrats are feeling confident. And if you want to know how seriously Republicans are taking that threat, Governor Greg...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: I have this distant memory of one of the places where I read A Wrinkle In Time. It was an elementary school desk toward the left side of the classroom, I think near the window. Of course, the action in the novel happened in no pa...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In the new movie Red Sparrow, a CIA officer walks alone in Gorky Park in Moscow. There's a handoff, a brush pass in the darkness with a Russian agent. Then all goes wrong - police lights, gunshots. The CIA officer has to run...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The #MeToo movement continues to hit the literary world. Writer Sherman Alexie recently issued a statement after rumors of sexual harassment circulated online. He admitted he had harmed others. He did not give details. But Al...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In her Oscar acceptance speech last night Frances McDormand, who had just been handed the statue for best actress, asked every female nominee in the room to stand up. (SOUNDBITE OF 90TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS) FRANCES MCDORMAN...
