LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: You may remember Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby from her very public role in the indictment of six police officers involved in the death of 25-year-old Baltimore native Freddie Gray. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDI...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The extreme cold weather has exhausted much of the country. It has also been tough for people who love getting outdoors this time of year. But we can always count on North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann to send us an audio postc...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In the northernmost town in the United States, the sun stops appearing above the horizon in November and doesn't make it back up until January. That first sunrise of the New Year is the pivot-point for Utqiagvik, away from...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: I bought a burqa in a market when I covered the war in Afghanistan in 2002. I showed it to my wife when I got home and pulled the blue garment over my head to look through the single thin eye slit that allowed an Afghan woman's onl...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: High Flying Bird is a basketball movie, but you rarely see a basketball. It's a film about, as one character calls it, the game that owners, broadcasters and advertisers put over the game. Andre Holland plays Ray, a sports agent wh...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Dan Gilroy is out with a new film, called, Velvet Buzzsaw. Like his last movie, Nightcrawler, Gilroy is the writer and director. And also like his last film, this one stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. Gyllenhaal plays an art cr...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Now to California, where a massive cleanup is getting underway in and around the town of Paradise, which was nearly wiped out by a deadly wildfire last fall. Disaster response officials say the country has not seen a toxic debris c...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Grammy Awards come next weekend in Los Angeles. Among this year's nominees is Southern folklorist William Ferris. Now, you probably will not see him outside Staples Center fending off the paparazzi. But if you do not know his...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The new book Genesis Begins Again is about a 13-year-old African-American girl who dreams of having smooth hair and skin many shades closer to her light-skinned mother and grandmother. Genesis says a prayer every night - Lord, turn...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The hundreds of thousands of government workers who were furloughed or working without pay did not have a negative effect on the job market. The Department of Labor reports this morning that employers in this country added 304,00...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Senator Cory Booker is the latest Democrat to make it official. (SOUNDBITE OF POLITICAL AD, TOGETHER, AMERICA, WE WILL RISE) CORY BOOKER: Together we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose. Together, America, w...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Tesla sells electric cars - expensive electric cars - and it's finally making money doing that. Yesterday Tesla announced its second quarterly profit in a row, which might be great for the company if CEO Elon Musk wanted to make...
The Youngest 2020 Candidate Pushes A Platform Of 'Inter-Generational Justice' STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Do not accuse Pete Buttigieg of thinking small. He is the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Ind. He is 37 years old, and he is running for president. PET...
