Somali Refugee Abdi Nor Iftin: 'I Am Here To Make America Great' LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: What does it take to become an American? In 2015, This American Life told the story of a Somali refugee who was finally issued a visa to come and live in the...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The writer Ariel Dorfman - born in Argentina, raised in Chile, now living and teaching in the U.S. - is known around the world for his art and his activism in behalf of human rights. His signature work, Death And The Maiden, a 19...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's Ramadan, and last year, President Trump skipped the annual White House iftar dinner, ending a 20-year tradition. But there was another prominent U.S. leader at the dinner this week. The top general of the U.S. Marine Corps sto...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump said today that he is likely to support a bipartisan bill that would change federal law to make it easier for states to legalize marijuana. That's in contrast to the position of his attorney general Jeff Sessions at...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Getting a child to do chores around the house without being told may seem an impossible dream for parents. But researchers have found several cultures around the world where children do chores around the house without being told. I...
Mister Rogers Talked Frankly With Kids About 'Grown-Up' Issues That Weren't MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: When I was a kid in the '70s and my mom needed a few moments of peace, she would plunk me down in front of the TV, adjust the rabbit ears and turn on...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now for a story most of us can probably relate to. You buy something online, and then you change your mind. So what to do - keep it, regift, send it back? Well, Americans had interesting things to say about their return habit...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now let's go to one place that will be closely watching this summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. It's a city on China's border with North Korea. If the North opens up, people there are well-positioned to b...
(SOUNDBITE OF DOUGLAS CUOMO'S SEX AND THE CITY THEME) MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: For me and maybe many of you out there, this music takes me straight to New York City in the late-'90's and a foursome of Manolo-wearing, cosmopolitan-swilling friends. Th...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now, as we just heard, the G-7 summit comes as President Trump has been pressuring other countries to make big trade concessions. As NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, the resistance he's encountering underscores how isolated the U.S...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This next story takes us along the U.S.-Mexico border. In courthouses there, immigrant parents who crossed illegally with their children face a harsh reality. They'll no longer be allowed to stay together as a family. The parents...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This morning we report on the death of a man who bounded across television screens filled with life. Anthony Bourdain has died. He took his own life, we're told, while in France recording an episode of his CNN program Parts Unkno...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Alberto Giacometti made drawings and paintings and sculptures. The sculptures are what he's best-known for, these long, skinny bronze bodies striding through life like shadows. Today New York's Guggenheim Museum opens a big show...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to visit a small town in Western Pennsylvania now that's worried about losing steel jobs. Several hundred people work for NLMK in Farrell, Penn. This is a Russian-owned steel mill that uses Russian steel, and so it's b...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: This seems big. Scientists say for the first time they have clear evidence that the chemical building blocks of life exist on Mars. So is this the moment we can say there is life on the red planet? Well, NPR's Joe Palca says not y...
