DAVID GREENE, HOST: The Oscar-winning director Jordan Peele is terrifying audiences again with a new film called Us, which opened Friday. It's the follow-up to peals Oscar winning horror pic Get Out. To ratchet up the fear factor, Peele went back to...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: There have been 45 presidents in the history of our country but just 17 Supreme Court chief justices. The current chief justice, John Roberts Jr., is often viewed as the center point of a new hard-line conservative majority, but h...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Eggs are bad for you, according to a study out earlier this month. But wait. Before that, eggs were good for you. And before that, they were bad. This is not because the truth is changing all the time. One key reason - scie...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Laila Lalami's new novel begins with a crime. A man is run over in a dark intersection late at night. It's a hit and-run. The victim is a Moroccan immigrant, killed by a speeding car outside the diner he runs in the Mojave...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Jenny Lewis was a child actor. She did cereal commercials and Barbie ads and films, including Troop Beverly Hills and The Wizard, before she became frontwoman for Rilo Kiley. When that band broke up, she went solo. She's just relea...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Director Jordan Peele has followed up his 2017 hit Get Out with a horror movie that will scare the hell out of you. The film's called Us, and it starts with a black family having fun on vacation. They go to the beach. Dad buys a bo...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Damon Young says he spent much of his life waiting to be called by a name I won't call anyone and won't repeat here, even though it appears in his new book a lot. His essays are pointed, ruminative and often barbed and funny recoll...
AILSA CHANG, HOST: All right. Some breaking news that we're receiving tonight. Attorney General William Barr received a report from the Justice Department from special counsel Robert Mueller. This would be the long-awaited Mueller report. The investi...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And it's time now for StoryCorps - today a story about the assassination of a civil rights leader. Throughout the 1960s, Edwin Pratt was the head of the Seattle Urban League. He argued that city to rally agai...
'High Heel' Muses On Beauty, Power And Stilettos MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: There was a time in Summer Brennan's life when she wore high heels almost every day. Brennan was working at the United Nations at the time - a place, as she describes it, of su...
Moderate Democrats Under Pressure As Party's Left Grabs Attention STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The most famous of all the newly elected Democrats in the House of Representatives is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist. But she is o...
Kushner Used Private Email To Conduct Official Business, House Committee Says AILSA CHANG, HOST: This should sound familiar - controversy over government officials using personal email accounts and messaging apps to conduct official business. This ti...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: When most people talk to technology, whether it's Alexa or Siri or Google Assistant, the voice that talks back sounds female. Some do choose a male voice. And now researchers have been developing a gender-neutral option called Q....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We have new evidence showing just how severe the opioid epidemic is here in the U.S. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that overdoses of the synthetic opioid fentanyl have increased exponentially....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: City leaders in Charlottesville, Va., are struggling to define what public discourse should look like. In 2017, a white nationalist rally turned deadly. Charlottesville became a target for that rally after the city decided to rem...
