STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The movement to legalize marijuana in many states has led to more interest in a product that is derived from cannabis. It's called CBD, and it's widely available online. Research suggests it may help to relieve pain and anxiety a...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, it's pretty rare for a book about a wrenching social problem to read like great literature. But when Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City came out in 2016, it won a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur genius grant...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Lucy Cooke is the founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society. Their motto - being fast is overrated. Of course, that's not her only claim to fame. Cooke is an Oxford-trained zoologist and an award-winning documentary filmmak...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When The Exorcist, based on the novel by William Blatty, came to theaters in 1973, it captured the public's imagination or, more accurately, our nightmares. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE EXORCIST) MAX VON SYDOW: (As Father Merrin...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Juliana Hatfield was a darling of the 1990s indie music scene. She played with the Blake Babies and Lemonheads, and she had a hit with this edgy pop song - My Sister. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, MY SISTER) JULIANA HATFIELD: (Singin...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Last year when neo-Nazis and members of the so-called alt-right demonstrated in Charlottesville, Va., many Americans evinced shock that such a thing could happen in 2017. But Charlottesville is only the latest in a history...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for some poetry. As we celebrate NPR Poetry Month, we've noticed that our Twitter hashtag - #nprpoetry - has attracted some young poets. And we know that teachers around the country sometimes use our Twitter callout to get th...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Elections in Afghanistan are scheduled for October after a three-year delay amid concerns about voter fraud and poor security. And at least one of those concerns has proven valid today. Dozens are dead in two attacks near v...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Maybe Maxim Borodin was depressed in ways his friends just didn't recognize and threw himself off his fifth-floor balcony this week in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Maxim Borodin was 32 and a reporter for the local Novy Den website, where...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Planning for natural disasters involves dealing with a lot of uncertainty, but advances in artificial intelligence may allow computers to take some of the guesswork out of the planning process. NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Starbucks' plan to close all of its U.S. stores for an afternoon to give their employees racial bias training has a lot of people asking, will this even work? We know little about what the training will include. Starbucks has said...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Arvo Part is one of the most performed living classical composers known for his spacious and meditative sound. (SOUNDBITE OF PERFORMANCE OF ARVO PART'S SUMMA FOR STRING ORCHESTRA) SHAPIRO: You can hear how the Estonian composer arr...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Kanye West is writing a philosophy book on Twitter, according to Kanye West on Twitter. And the tweets - his chapters, if you will - are pretty sunny. The superstar rapper is talking about being present in his own life, about shari...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: There's a lot of great stuff on TV right now, which is awesome but also exhausting. We have reviewed or featured at least 13 TV shows this year alone, which is like 129 hours of assigned viewing. And we're not even counting the Oly...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Students across the country walked out of school yesterday to demonstrate against gun violence. The national school walkout also marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre outside of Denver. Paula Reed was te...
