DON GONYEA, HOST: Guinness is famous for making stout beer, and this week, the Irish company opened a new brewery in Maryland. It's the first time Guinness has had a brewery in the U.S. in more than 60 years. So does Guinness want to sell lots more s...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There is a type of orchid that resembles a female wasp. And in rare occasions, this trick of nature will attract a male wasp to pollinate the flower. This is portrayed on the cover of Caoilinn Hughes' new book Orchid And Th...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: After World War II, a Hollywood gas station became the center of that city's hidden sex life. Scotty Bowers was an attendant there. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD) SCOTTY BOWERS: One day, Car...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: As wildfires rage across California, President Donald Trump has declared a major disaster in the state, opening up federal funds to help with the recovery. Several blazes are less than an hour away from one community affect...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Police across the country are growing concerned about stoned drivers behind the wheel. Thirty states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana. Nine of those, plus the District, have legalized recreational pot. One Cal...
An Unlikely Friendship: An Immigration Attorney And A Border Patrol Agent AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In America today, communities are sorting themselves into like-minded bubbles - red teams and blue teams where you're less likely to run into people who di...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: You may have heard in recent years that minor league baseball players don't exactly share in the riches of the game. Most minor leaguers make an estimated $7,500 per year. Major League players average more than four million. A law...
DON GONYEA, HOST: If you missed the news on Monday, President Barack Obama and his former vice president, Joe Biden, were spotted out at a Washington, D.C., cafe rekindling their Oval Office quote-unquote bromance, catching up over sandwiches and fen...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is huge in size and scope. Writer and artist Emil Ferris fills the pages with inky, scratchy drawings done in ballpoint pen. There are loose sketches, recreations of famous paintings...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: It was 1981. A new Republican president with a background in the entertainment business was trying to jumpstart the U.S. economy out of a brutal recession. The president pushed tax cuts. Then his administration had to come up with...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Tennessee has emerged as one of the most surprising Senate battlegrounds this year. Former Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen has a chance to flip the open seat held by retiring Senator Bob Corker. But his opponent, Republican Congr...
In Tennessee Senate Race, Democrat Tries To Show He Can Overcome Political Tribalism AILSA CHANG, HOST: Tennessee has emerged as one of the most surprising Senate battlegrounds this year. Former Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen has a chance to flip...
NOEL KING, HOST: There's a myth that doctors are kind of like professional athletes. They can take the long hours and the emotional toll. In fact, doctors are more likely to die by suicide than the rest of us are. Blake Farmer reports on new suicide...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: One of the freshest reboots in the world of comic books is based on a cartoon that debuted back in the 1960s. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, THE FLINTSTONES) UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: (Singing) Flintstones, meet the Flintstones. They're the modern...
NOEL KING, HOST: All right. This morning, the Labor Department reported another month of strong job growth. Employers added 157,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.9 percent. And of course, we had news last week that the U.S....
