LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Imagine a world where lying is against the law. That's the reality writer Ben Winters has created in his new novel Golden State. It reads like a detective story, and it's set in the future. But, as NPR's Lynn Neary tells us...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Jill Abramson served as executive editor of The New York Times at a tumultuous time for the journalism industry. The rollout of her new book about the industry has also been tumultuous. The book is called Merchants Of Truth: The...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: An outbreak of measles in the Pacific Northwest has again put the issue of vaccinations front and center. Most of the people infected have been children who were not vaccinated. Parents can choose whether or not to vaccinate their...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The recent stories about high-profile politicians in Virginia having worn blackface have caused many people to remember their own experiences, times that people around them blithely invoke racist caricatures and have made them feel...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There are more than half a million people in the United States with HIV who are being kept alive today by drug therapy that was discovered back in 1996. Many attribute that breakthrough to pressure that was put on the government by...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The world is full of romantic poems that are made for Valentine's Day, sonnets about first love, haikus about a beautiful stranger. The writer John Kenney saw a gap in this market, and so we now have his new collection called Love...
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: A key figure in New York's folk music scene of the 1950s has died. His name was Izzy Young. Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir that Young's store, the Folklore Center, was the citadel of Americana folk music. Young also produced c...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's not just the finger of fate that brings Ren and Ji Lin together - it's a finger. Ren is an 11-year-old houseboy at the deathbed of his master Dr. MacFarlane, who takes a last breath to ask the boy to find the finger amputated...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: If you saw some of these paintings of flowers, fields and foggy townscapes for sale at a summer art fair, you might point at one to say, maybe for the guest bathroom. Five pictures allegedly painted by Adolf Hitler are scheduled fo...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: Time for StoryCorps. Last Valentine's Day, Maya Altman stepped out of her freshman biology class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when she heard booming sounds. They were gunshots from the mass shooting...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Let's hear more about one thing Kelsey mentioned there. We heard a lot on the program yesterday about congressional Democrats' new plan to address climate change. The Green New Deal, as it's being called, would also transform the...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Democrats are getting clearer on their priorities for 2020. And one of them is voting rights. Here's NPR's Miles Parks. MILES PARKS, BYLINE: Stacey Abrams took the stage in Atlanta on Tuesday night for the Democratic response to...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Utah residents may have thought they were done fighting about health care back in November. That's when voters approved a ballot measure to expand Medicaid to more uninsured adults, but now Utah lawmakers want to roll that back. K...
RUND ABDELFATAH, HOST: August 15, 1953. RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST: Shortly before midnight in Tehran, Iran's capital city, the air was thick with anticipation. Something big was about to happen. ABDELFATAH: The elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad M...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: When a product is successful, usually it's because people really like it, right? But some farmers say they are buying a popular new kind of soybean seed partly out of fear that if they don't, they won't have a crop next year. The...
