LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: More states are requiring public schools, from elementary to high school, to hold active shooter drills. JONANN HORN: I am JonAnn Horn, and I am the principal at Brookside Elementary in Nicholasville, Ky. I really struggle...
The World Is Constantly Running Out Of Helium. Here's Why It Matters. MADDIE SOFIA, HOST: You're listening to SHORT WAVE... (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SOFIA: ...From NPR. Maddie Sofia here with science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel. GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE:...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Tomorrow is Veterans Day. It's a time to remember those who have sacrificed to protect and serve our country, like Howard Weistling. Growing up, Weistling wanted to be a comic strip artist. But when the Japanese bombed Pear...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Arctic sea ice is one of the most dramatic indicators of the changing climate. Some months, the ice cover on the Arctic Ocean is about half of what it was decades ago. And its thickness has shrunk substantially. Changes in...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Medical marijuana is now legal in almost three dozen states, and it's become a growing source of tax revenue and employment. But for all the job opportunities medical marijuana can offer, there really hasn't been any formal train...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Centuries ago, poor children scraped a living from the mud along London's River Thames, scavenging among the bones and trash that washed down from the city. They were called mudlarks, and their work was dirty and dangerous....
NOEL KING, HOST: All this week, we have been looking back at 40 years of MORNING EDITION through the lens of, among other things, politics, science and culture. Today, we're taking a look at race and identity and how conversations about those things...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: When Virginia Democrats swept control of the State House this week, one factor some voters cited was gun control. In May, a mass shooting in Virginia Beach killed 12 people. Afterwards, Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, con...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other has just been published in the United States after sharing Britain's Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments. It follows 12 characters whose lives touch each other or come c...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Thousands of asylum-seekers are stuck in Mexican border towns up and down the U.S.-Mexico border. And in Matamoros, Mexico, more than 1,500 asylum-seekers are living in squalid conditions in a tent encampment. Mexican officials wan...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Relationships between police and the communities they serve are strained in many parts of the country. Michael Logan, a retired Michigan state police sergeant, says... MICHAEL LOGAN: One of the things that I saw most immediately in...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: About half of all the electric cars in the country are owned in California, and they're at the center of what's becoming a statewide struggle for electric power. Thousands of customers are being cut off the grid on a regular basis,...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: What questions do voters have for the 2020 presidential candidates? South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg sat down this week with NPR host Scott Simon and two undecided voters for Off Script. It's our series of conversations wit...
NOEL KING, HOST: A one-time politician might be looking for a comeback. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is thinking about running for president. NPR's Scott Detrow has the story. SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Bloomberg has weighed White House ru...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to a story about Germany, the Berlin Wall and David Hasselhoff. Tomorrow we mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. And David Hasselhoff is leading the celebration, which might sound strange to Americans who think of...
