LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: There's a certain stereotype of Silicon Valley tech offices - that they provide endless snacks and meals around the clock. Well, now there's an effort underway to do away with that legendary perk. Menlo Park in California is bann...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Sometimes, we can connect surprisingly deeply with someone and then never see them again - a missed connection. In our ongoing series, we're now going to bring you the story of a reconnection first reported by Carol Rosenbe...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Forget about scarecrows. Some farmers are using laser beams to shoot thieving birds from their fields. From the berry fields of Oregon, Tom Banse of the Northwest News Network brings us this report. TOM BANSE: Blueberry and...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: David Joy's new novel begins with a terrible accident. Darl Moody is looking to poach a deer in the woods when he accidentally kills another man, Carol Brewer, who is poaching himself rooting around for ginseng. That shooti...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: V.S. Naipaul, winner of the Nobel Prize, has died. The 85-year-old author was at his home in London. Perhaps best known for his novel A Bend In The River, Naipaul was a controversial figure in the literary world. NPR's Lynn...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: And now onto election security, which is a huge campaign issue ahead of this year's midterms. In Georgia, the Republican candidate for governor is also secretary of state. The top election official, Brian Kemp, insists Geor...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: As the 2018 midterms approach, there's one issue that threatens to separate President Trump from his base - tariffs. (SOUNDBITE OF COWS MOOING) GARCIA-NAVARRO: Those are the cows of Vision-Aire Farms in Eldorado, Wis. This...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's peak tourist season in Yosemite National Park, but the most popular spot has been quiet for nearly three weeks. In Yosemite Valley, there are no climbers on its cliffs, no people on its trails. Smoke from the nearby Ferguson f...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Companies and corporations are in business to make money for themselves, their workers, their stockholders. But can they make too much? Ralph Nader thinks Apple hit that limit earlier this month when it became the first trillion-do...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: NPR's Martin Kaste spent a few weeks this summer reporting from Berlin. While he was there, he discovered the city's retired airport Tempelhof field - now a public park. Martin sent us this audio postcard from a place he calls the...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Most people go to church with people who look like them. In 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. described Sunday morning as the most segregated hour in Christian America. He called on churches to become more diverse - so far, not a lot of...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Motorcyclists from around the world travel to South Dakota this week for the 78th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. As Jim Kent reports, the rally's rowdy reputation is mostly a thing of the past. (SOUNDBITE OF MOTORCYCLE REVVING) JIM KENT...
LAKSHMI SINGH, HOST: Finally, today, a new movie from director Spike Lee has a premise that sounds - well, it sounds crazy, impossible to believe. It's 1978, and a black police detective in Colorado Springs, Colo., manages to infiltrate the Ku Klux K...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's time for quarterly earnings reports at many companies. And that gives us a chance to compare President Trump's rhetoric on trade with the reality that American manufacturers are facing. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports. JIM ZARROLI,...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The new novel Severance is about immigration and 21st-century office work and also the apocalypse. The main character, Candace Chen, is a first-generation American whose parents came from China. When a fatal disease wipes out most...
