STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: In a short story by Edwidge Danticat, a mother and daughter need to have a hard talk, so they go out to dinner. EDWIDGE DANTICAT: The daughter thinks, why do people wait until they're in a public place with a mouth full of food t...
NOEL KING, HOST: A lot of American companies that make or buy products from China are starting to rethink doing that as a new round of tariffs takes effect this weekend. Import taxes are making Chinese goods more expensive in the United States. But f...
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST: From NPR, this is HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedantam. For many people, this is what work sounds like nowadays. (SOUNDBITE OF NOTIFICATION BELLS AND VIBRATIONS) VEDANTAM: A constant thrum of notifications, tweets and messages....
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Poets In Chairs Sipping Tea. I just invented that. KWAME ALEXANDER: And I'm Kwame Alexander, and I like that title... MARTIN: You do? ALEXANDER: ...But, you know, we kind of need a proper name for o...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: This story falls in the category of things only one of us in this studio would eat. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Right. It's not happening. GREENE: I mean, I would do it, although, I admit it's kind of gross. Though, if you're at the ball...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Our next guest is someone whose name you may not know but whose face seems to pop up all over the screen. She's had small roles in House Of Cards, Better Call Saul and bigger ones in HBO's The Night Of and Big Little Lies in whic...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Airbnb and other short-term rental sites, I mean, they seem like a great model, right? One person gets a place to stay on vacation; the other get some cash for loaning out their home. But there are now more than a million rentals...
NOEL KING, HOST: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has notified migrants who are suffering from serious medical conditions that they will not be allowed to stay in this country for treatment. The agency told these people that they have to lea...
(SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA'S TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)) ASMA KHALID, HOST: Hey there. It's the NPR POLITICS PODCAST. I'm Asma Khalid. All summer long, we have been taking you on the road to meet the 2020 Democratic pre...
NOEL KING, HOST: Women who abuse opioids often get started when they're prescribed medication. Now, that's in part because women are more likely than men to seek help for pain. Researchers are studying differences in pain perception, and they're find...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: About 26 million Americans have asthma. Many carry a rescue inhaler for when they have an attack, and they might also use a steroid inhaler to prevent future attacks. But there's a recent study suggesting these prevention inhalers...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Since June, large protests have rocked Hong Kong with hundreds of thousands of people filling the streets. The rally started after officials introduced a bill that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. T...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: Tucked away in the northwest corner of Wyoming is one of the largest gun collections in the world. The Cody Firearms Museum just got a makeover. It's moved away from being a monument to guns and toward being an educational space on...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: The members of Shine MSD are on a mission. MSD stands for Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the high school in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people died in a mass shooting. Shine MSD is a group of Parkland students and parents who are promoting...
LEILA FADEL, HOST: If you walk into a scientific institution in the United States, like a medical school or a university biology department, there's a good chance you'll see a dude wall. NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce explains what a dude wall is and why...
