SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Facebook has pledged to do better at moderating content. The social media company usually employs third-party contractors to do the job. The average moderator makes about $28,000 a year. Meanwhile, the average Facebook employee's s...
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We want to talk now about eating disorders. After years of education by the medical community and advocacy by activists and sufferers, many now understand the threat this disorder poses for young women. But, increasingly, it's be...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Bonnie and Clyde - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow wrote poems between robbing banks and killing people before they died in a shootout with the law in 1934. And now some of the poems they wrote, along with a notebook and photos, are...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This week, just as President Trump and Kim Jong Un prepare to meet in Hanoi for what turned out to be their abrupt and unproductive summit, Dutch customs officials discovered and seized about 90,000 bottles of Russian vodka from a...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The late pop star Michael Jackson is the focus of HBO's new documentary Leaving Neverland. It includes graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse. And for that reason, the conversation we're about to have may not be appropriate for...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Etaf Rum's new novel, A Woman Is No Man, may violate a code of silence - the tight-knit and often closed Palestinian-American community of Brooklyn in which she grew up and which she left. Her protagonist, Isra, is born in Palestin...
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Novelists have to have active imaginations. For her last novel, The Country Of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman made up a whole new language. How would you say BJ Leiderman writes our theme music in that language? In her new novel, Th...
Getting Out Of The Commercial Sex Industry With Help From Women Who've Been There SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Not all women who work in the sex industry are victims of sex trafficking, but that's where many who have been trafficked end up. Reporter Gloria Hil...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Climate change is a danger to this country. That is the official position of the U.S. federal government. But according to leaked documents, the White House could be moving to challenge that conclusion. The man who appears to be...
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Mickey Willenbring has always been a fighter. She grew up being shuffled between the foster care system and family on Indian reservations in the upper Midwest. When she was 20, s...
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Chiwetel Ejiofor is best known for his starring role in the movie 12 Years A Slave. Now he's making his directorial debut. A decade ago, Ejiofor picked up a best-selling memoir called The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. It's about Will...
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks are partners in work and in life. They're musicians who married, then married their music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, SIGNS, HIGH TIMES) TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: (Singing) Here I am. I did it to myself, but...
