DAVID GREENE, HOST: The phone lines at the state attorney general's office in Pennsylvania have not stopped ringing. Hotline numbers have surged with calls in the aftermath of a scathing grand jury report which describes decades of child sex abuse an...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The director of a national regulatory agency has been accused of sexual harassment. His name is Melvin Watt, and he heads up the Federal Housing Finance Agency. An employee there named Simone Grimes claims that Watt harassed her,...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Trump administration is moving to penalize legal immigrants for using government benefits, including Medicaid and food assistance. Although many of the details haven't been set in stone, NPR's Joel Rose reports the idea has alr...
(SOUNDBITE OF MICHAEL JACKSON SONG, THRILLER) AILSA CHANG, HOST: All respect to Michael Jackson, but when it comes to the best-selling albums of all time, the king of pop has just been dethroned. His 1982 album Thriller is now the second-best-selling...
Minorities In Germany Are Sounding Off Against Racism With #MeTwo Hashtag RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In Germany, the #MeToo movement is in the headlines again, but it is being used in a different way. It is #MeTwo - T-W-O in English - and it's a hashtag mi...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Summer is almost over. And if you haven't had a lot of time off, well, you're actually not alone. As a nation, we are not great at using all the vacation time we earn, which means we're giving up opportunities to improve our healt...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Time now for this weekend's Long Listen - imagine living for nearly 70 years knowing your mom, dad, maybe brothers and sisters live just a few hours away across the most heavily fortified border in the world. Tensions are e...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Across Pennsylvania, Catholic churches are celebrating Mass this weekend for the first time since a devastating report. In that report, the state attorney general detailed the sexual abuse of minors by hundreds of priests....
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When HBO's Insecure debuted in 2016, Issa Rae and her best friend Molly, played by Yvonne Orji, were on the brink of turning 30, navigating broken hearts, gentrification in Los Angeles and workplace discrimination. This sea...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: On Tuesday, Wisconsin goes to the polls. And the primary election will be an early test of voter enthusiasm ahead of the November midterms. Democrats in the state are trying to hang onto their Senate seat, take back the gov...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: As usual, Catholic priests in Pennsylvania will celebrate Mass this evening and tomorrow. But this will be the first weekend since the release of a grand jury report into sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses in the state....
JENNIFER LUDDEN, HOST: It's been a depressing week of back-to-school stories - parents buying bulletproof backpacks, schools installing panic buttons and classroom trauma kits. Some teachers in Waco kicked off the year with an active-shooter drill th...
NOEL KING, HOST: It's hard to imagine politics these days without candidates playing gotcha with the other side. One method is called political tracking. That's the practice of following candidates around and then just constantly filming what they sa...
JENNIFER LUDDEN, HOST: Writers often have ambivalent feelings when their books are adapted for film. Sure there might be fame and fortune with a movie, but they loathe giving up control. Some have famously hated the final adaptation. But debut noveli...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A debut novel by young Latino writer, We the Animals, made a splash in literary circles when it was published in 2011. An autobiographical story about preteen brothers and their turbulent home life, it seemed an unlikely candidat...
