RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to a musical controversy in South India. First, we have to explain something called Carnatic singing. It's a type of classical music rooted in Hinduism. Some fans of this are angry because some performers are using this style...
A Farm-To-Table Board Game, For Manure Audiences Only AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Dave Matthews loves to play Chickapig. It's a board game that's sometimes called Farmer's Chess. It was created by Brian Calhoun, who's made acoustic guitars for Matthews and...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Right in the path of Hurricane Florence, there's an area where pigs far outnumber people. A big worry is the state of hundreds of open-air lagoons filled with manure. Torrential rain could cause them to overflow. Here's NPR's Dan C...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Paperless voting machines are having their day in court today in Georgia. A federal judge is weighing whether the state should use paper ballots instead of the electronic voting machines in November or whether all that would just...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump uses the phrase fake news a lot to criticize media stories he doesn't like. There's something similar happening in Venezuela. Last week, the government said social media is exacerbating the spread of fake news aga...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today for our series American Anthem... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.) LEE GREENWOOD: (Singing) And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. INSKEEP: God Bless The U.S.A. by country singer-songwrite...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hurricane Florence, which is approaching the Carolinas, is another strong storm. Hurricanes are measured by wind. This one has had recorded speeds of up to 140 miles per hour. But whenever it makes landfall, the real danger may b...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: When the teen musical Be More Chill opened in New Jersey a few years ago, it got a ho-hum critical response. But then something surprising happened. The cast recording and some YouTube videos went viral. Next came fan art,...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: When you open the pages of the new novel Housegirl, you find a glossary, dozens of words and phrases in Twi, a Ghanaian dialect. Author Michael Donkor was born in London and is the child of Ghanaian parents. These words hint at t...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Early on the day of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush received his presidential daily briefing - an intelligence update. President Harry Truman was the first to ask for this daily briefing. Many presidents since would...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been talking a lot this campaign season about voter enthusiasm. More Americans say they are enthusiastic about voting in a midterm election than at any point in the last two decades. Even so, a majority of Americans likely...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We've been talking a lot this campaign season about voter enthusiasm. More Americans say they are enthusiastic about voting in a midterm election than at any point in the last two decades. Even so, a majority of Americans likely...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, if you were watching men's singles 50 years ago, you would have seen Arthur Ashe become the only African-American man to win the U.S. Open. Karen Grigsby Bates of our Code Switch team reports on a player who grew much larger...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: There is a movement to change the names of two landmarks in Yellowstone National Park, the nation's oldest national park. And that is bringing to light long buried atrocities. Yellowstone Public Radio's Nate Hegyi has this report...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now, this is one of those conversations that's going to be so obvious to some people that they might wonder why we're having it. And here, I'm talking about the 40 million Americans who currently participate in some form of onlin...
